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On Display: May 14, 2024 - January 6, 2025
Location: Read & Relax
Queer Legacies at W&M highlights LGBTQ+ voices in William & Mary’s archive through oral histories, documenting how the queer community at W&M has experienced both collective joy and resilience in the…
On Display: May 6, 2024 - January 5, 2025
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
The Data Science program has 11 faculty members whose research covers a broad range of area strengths: Data and Society, Large Scale Experiments, Patterns of Information Dissemination, Data and…
On Display: November 25, 2024 - January 3, 2025
Location: Williamsburg Regional Library Gallery at Stryker Center (412 N Boundary St, Williamsburg VA 23185)
Food is the foundation of many Christmas traditions around the world, and it is interwoven into countless songs, poems, and illustrations. Clement C. Moore’s classic Christmas poem ’Twas the Night…
On Display: October 1 - December 2, 2024
Location: Read & Relax
The honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree presented to the Marquis de Lafayette in 1824 is on loan from the Chambrun Foundation who preserves and maintains Lafayette’s estate, Chateau de Lagrange, and…
On Display: February 4 - June 8, 2024
Location: 1st Floor Rotunda
The Negro Leagues Baseball exhibit grew from a labor/hobby of 40 years and the love of researching and collecting baseball memorabilia by William & Mary alumnus Derrick C. Jones.
On Display: February 4 - April 22, 2024
Location: Swem Lobby
This project re-considers a 1993 t-shirt, preserved in the University Archives, which celebrates the 300th anniversary of William & Mary’s royal charter by providing an illustrated timeline of the…
On Display: April 9, 2023 - January 23, 2024
Location: Special Collections Lobby
English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) is a figure of fascinating contrast. Diminutive in stature yet larger-than-life in personality, in uncertain health but also highly energetic, in…
On Display: May 10, 2023 - January 8, 2024
Location: Swem Lobby
Scholarship on Display: Physics highlights the dynamic and multi-faceted research and scholarship of the William & Mary Physics faculty.
On Display: November 18, 2023 - January 7, 2024
Location: Williamsburg Regional Library Gallery at Stryker Center (412 N Boundary St, Williamsburg VA 23185)
This year’s exhibit of the Nancy H. Marshall Collection celebrates of the 200th anniversary of the poem’s first publication in the Troy Sentinel on December 23, 1823. While the original text of the…
On Display: November 29 - December 15, 2023
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
An exhibit featuring the works of ceramics artist Hiroe Hanazono, who has been an artist-in-residence in the Art and & Art History department for Fall 2023.
On Display: January 24 - May 8, 2023
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
Charting Diverse Pathways explores the lives of the first three Asian ancestry women to attend William & Mary: Hatsuye Yamasaki Kajiwara ‘37, Margaret Lee Masters ‘45, and Beatrice Fujiwara Sakai ‘53.
On Display: February 9 - April 22, 2023
Location: Special Collections Lobby
Recent scholarship offers new insights and interpretations about the Brafferton Indian School’s history and legacy. Interrogating the extant documents from the era demonstrates the role of both the…
On Display: April 26, 2022 - January 25, 2023
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
The William & Mary Linguistics program was founded in 1978 to provide students the opportunity to explore language as both a faculty of mind and a social institution. This exhibit highlights the…
On Display: November 17, 2022 - January 9, 2023
The magic of Christmas morning begins the night before, on Christmas Eve. Clement Clarke Moore probably had this in mind when he wrote "A Visit from St. Nicholas" in 1822. By opening his poem with…
On Display: April 12 - September 30, 2022
Location: Special Collections Lobby
This exhibit seeks to demonstrate the many ways in which black votes in Virginia were used and suppressed to maintain the status quo.
On Display: April 7 - May 6, 2022
Location: Read & Relax
This interactive collage was inspired by Take What You Need, Leave What You Want boards. If you see something that resonates with you, take it to keep! Want to contribute? Add something of your own…
On Display: September 8, 2020 - January 16, 2022
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
This exhibit analyzes the ways in which changing market and race relations intersected with Virginia families throughout the burgeoning New South, the economic and cultural developments that occurred…
On Display: October 7 - December 31, 2021
In 1921, Pu Kao (P. K.) Chen, a Chinese international student from Tsing Hua College in “Peking” (Beijing), boarded the steamship China to come study at William & Mary. In doing so, he became the…
On Display: November 10 - December 3, 2021
Though early women veterans were prohibited from direct combat roles or assignments, and even officially banned from serving in combat from 1994-2013, women have always served as crucial members of…
On Display: August 23, 2018 - November 30, 2021
Location: Kaplan Arena
Game Changers highlights the significant history of women’s athletics at William & Mary, celebrates its game-changing athletes, and anticipates its bright future.