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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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Monday, August 4, 2025
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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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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.
Greg Louganis, Hawaii
MARKUS, KURT
1988
Silver gelatin print
16 3/4 x 13 1/8 ins.
Gift of Jon Gilbert Fox and Darrell Hotchkiss
Gevaert Gevarto 47, exact expiration date unknown, ca. 1960s, processed 2019 (#75)
ROSSITER, ALISON
2019
Gelatin silver prints
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Ambivalence
FREBORG, STAN
1958
Oil on canvas
50 x 45 ins. (127.0 x 114.3 cm)
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler
Andante in Yellow and Green
LUCIONI, LUIGI
1975
Oil on canvas
22 1/4 x 26 1/4 ins. (56 x 66.4 cm)
Acquired with funds provided by James H. Starkey III & Judith Forehand Starkey
TV Indians
ROMERO, CARA
2017
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 61 x 41 ins. (154.9 x 104.1 cm); Image: 55 x 36 ins. (139.7 x 91.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment with additional funds from Ann Marie Stock and David Brashear
Old man with additional sketches of a profile of a head, a pair of hands, and a horse’s head
CASTIGLIONE, GIOVANNI BENEDETTO
c. 1645-1650
Etching
Sheet: 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 ins. (11.4 x 8.7 cm); Image: 4 5/16 x 3 5/16 ins. (11.0 x 8.3 cm)
Bequest of Vernon Phillips Weaver
Lake George, New York
HERZOG, HERMAN
Pencil on paper
Sight: 3 7/8 x 6 1/8 ins. (9.9 x 15.6 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns

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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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