The Museum was founded on the belief that the study and appreciation of original works of art is an indispensable part of a Middlebury education.
With the collaboration of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community partners, we seek to make the Museum an inclusive place that sparks curiosity, fosters a respectful exchange of ideas, and promotes creativity in many different forms.
The first-floor galleries highlight the Museum’s permanent collection, while the second-level galleries present a rotating schedule of special exhibitions that explore a wide array of global cultures and ideas. We encourage you to return often to see what’s on view.
This installation of Middlebury’s art collection invites visitors to join a conversation sparked by objects created throughout time and around the globe. Arranged thematically to highlight similarities as well as differences across cultures, the reinstalled galleries represent steps in the ongoing journey toward a more inclusive and accessible presentation of the many stories art can tell.
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This exhibition showcases a selection of the Piranesi’s artistic output and contextualizes it within the cultural debates of his time. It is curated by Pieter Broucke, professor of architectural history, with labels written by Middlebury students in a course taught at Middlebury College in January 2025.
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This exhibit unveils a set of wooden carved panels from an 18th century Parisian interior, once displayed in Le Château, that have since been stored in the collections of the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
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When Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger presented the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria with one of his paintings, a relationship was born that led to the first illustrated catalogue of a significant painting collection, the Theatrum Pictorium, “The Theater of Painting.”
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From political borders to systems of classification, externally imposed boundaries have long influenced global views of Africa, obstructing and limiting our understanding of its arts. This exhibit aims to transcend them. It will feature a selection of historical and contemporary works from our permanent collection, exploring them through four subthemes: Beyond Primitivism, Beyond Borders, Beyond Categories, and Beyond Sight.
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Curated by Dexter Wimberly, this exhibition presents a continuation of artist Damian Stamer’s acclaimed Collaboration Series, featuring evocative oil paintings that emerge from an artistic partnership between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
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This exhibit brings together for the first time more than forty graphite drawings, oil sketches, and finished paintings by Frederic Church created during or as a result of his visits to Vermont over thirty years.
