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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine: March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025 Buy Tickets

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Michelangelo:
The Genesis of the Sistine

Now through June 1.

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Muscarelle Summer Youth Art Camp
Muscarelle Summer Youth Art Camp
Monday, July 28, 2025
9:00 AM
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Teen Metal Casting Camp
Teen Metal Casting Camp
Monday, August 4, 2025
9:00 AM
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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025
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William & Mary Collects III

February 7, 2025 — June 8, 2025
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — August 18, 2025
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Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia

November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026
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Collection Highlights

The permanent collection at the Muscarelle dates from 1732 and has grown to nearly 8,000 objects.

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Two Studies of Men
CLONNEY, JAMES GOODWYN
Pencil
Sight: 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 ins. (18.5 x 24.2 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
The Mirror
TOOKER, GEORGE
1978
Lithograph printed in black and light tan on Arches wove paper
Sheet: 27 ½ x 22 7/8 ins. (69.8 x 56.9 cm); Image: 20 x 16 1/8 ins. (50.9 x 41 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Aus der Tierlegende (From the Animal Legend)
MARC, FRANZ
1912
Woodblock print
Sheet: 10 5/16 x 13 11/16 ins. (26.2 x 34.7 cm); Image: 7 13/16 x 9 1/2 ins. (19.8 x 24.1 cm)
Gift of William Fleming Kenan, Professor at the College of William and Mary, 1983
Cochiti Maiden
ROMERO, DIEGO
2019
Clay and pigment
12 1/2 x 5 1/4 ins. (diameter x depth)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Nancy and Olivia
NEEL, ALICE
1982
Color lithograph
Image: 26 1/16 x 23 15/16 ins. (66.1 x 60.8 cm); Sheet: 31 3/16 x 28 3/16 ins. (79.2 x 71.5 cm)
Museum purchase with funds provided by Ann ‘66 and Steve Critchfield
General Toussaint L’Ouverture
LAWRENCE, JACOB
1986
Silkscreen on Bainbridge two-ply rag paper
28 3/8 x 18 1/2 ins. (72.1 x 47 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment with additional funds provided by the Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment
Raccoon
MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD
1887
Collotype
Sheet: 18 5/8 x 23 3/4 ins. (47.3 x 60.1 cm); Image: 8 1/8 x 15 3/8 ins. (20.5 x 38.5 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Strategy
LAWRENCE, JACOB
1994
Silkscreen on Bainbridge two-ply rag paper
18 1/2 x 28 5/8 ins. (47 x 72.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment with additional funds provided by the Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment

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UTAGAWA TOKOKUNI, Untitled Kabuki scene, c. 1815, Woodblock print, Sheet: 15 3/8 x 31 ins. (39.0 x 78.7 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sullivan

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