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
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1968 was a year of upheaval and transformation. It was a year in which national and international events spawned intense vocal expression and protest. This exhibit, through the lens of art, music, and literature, looks back fifty years to consider the issues then transforming American society.
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The Museum recently received an extensive collection of photographs of children from all corners of the globe. In this exhibition we survey a range of documentary and intimate images that depict the characteristic activities, delights, and inevitable sorrows of childhood. Photographers whose works are on view include Ken Heyman, Ilse Bing, Dmitri Baltermants, Danny Lyon, and Leonard Freed.
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The paintings, sculptures, works of silver, furniture, and other decorative objects of this exhibition demonstrate the wide range of artistic production and devotional practice of colonial Latin America. Drawn from the Collection of the Fondacion Cisneros, founded to enhance the appreciation of art from Latin America, the exhibition reveals the great wealth of the region from the late 17th century until the 1820s.
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Presenting art from around the globe, this year’s Thinking through Art exhibition invites school students and teachers—and all visitors—to engage in conversations about their relationship to the surrounding world.
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Since 2008 the Studio Art Program has hosted an annual week-long visit of a Cameron Visiting Artist who creates a print or series of prints with students enrolled in Professor Hedya Klein’s silkscreen class. This exhibition includes all of the works produced under this extraordinary collaborative program. Prints by students working with Mark Dion, Derrick Adams, Tomas Vu, Kati Heck, and Rona Yefman, among other artists, will be on view.
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The 1917 Russian Revolution ushered in a new era of human history. The objects featured here showcase four different moments in Russian and Soviet history, demonstrating how material culture served as a space in which governing forces, both Tsarist and Communist, sought—sometimes unsuccessfully—to gain legitimacy and shape the country’s moral fabric.
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Photographs drawn primarily from the Museum’s rich holdings make up this comprehensive survey of photography and the environment. The exhibit, which is organized in categories spanning cosmological time to the present day, presents seventy images through the lens of environmental appreciation, concern, or activism.
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This exhibition, organized by Assistant Professor of History of Art Carrie Anderson and students in her January 2017 course, tells a story of artistic production from its conception to its afterlife. The eclectic selection of drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculpture come from the generous bequest of Impressionist scholar and alumnus Charles S. Moffett ’67 and his widow.
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Drawing its title from the publication of photos by Grey Villet with a text by his colleague and widow Barbara Villet, Middlebury Class of 1952, this installation includes photographs of the aptly named Virginia couple whose interracial marriage was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1967. The photographs expand upon Grey Villet’s LIFE magazine article about the couple, which inspired the 2016 Academy Award-nominated motion picture “Loving.”
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On the occasion of Sabra Field’s 60th Middlebury reunion, this retrospective exhibition explores the depth and diversity of her six decades as a printmaker.
