Past Exhibitions

Throughout the Museum’s history the staff has produced a wide array of critically acclaimed exhibitions both with works from the permanent collection and with objects borrowed from other institutions.

In addition, we have hosted a number of nationally and internationally recognized exhibits curated by organizations that specialize in traveling shows. Some of our more recent exhibitions are archived here. Please browse the links to the left to view our past exhibitions by year

Art Now: Recent Acquisitions in Photography and Film/Video

January 03–August 10, 2008

Overbrook Gallery. For the past eight years the Project in Contemporary Photography and Film/Video has offered students the opportunity to participate in the selection of works of art for the Museum collection. Over the course of the spring the various Art Now installations will feature videos by Tracy Moffett, Jacco Olivier, and the Swiss team of Fischli and Weiss, along with photographs by Roger Ballen, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others.
Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art

September 18–December 9, 2007
Art Now: Patrick Dougherty

September 18–December 9, 2007
Modern Times: Middlebury Collects the 20th Century

June 28–August 12, 2007
Art Now: Rebecca Purdum

June 27–August 12, 2007
Robert Adams: Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

January 25–June 3, 2007
Azure Skies and Pure Snows: Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelains of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) Dynasties from the Rui Fang and Barbara P. and Robert P. ’64 Youngman Collections

January 25–December 9, 2007
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

September 14–December 10, 2006
Art Now: Dawn Clements

September 05–December 10, 2006
The Past within the Present: Contemporary Classical Chinese Paintings from the John and Alice Z. Berninghausen Collection

June 29–August 13, 2006