August 8–December 8, 2019

To mark the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing, the Museum’s summer interns have curated an exhibition exploring the relationship between wonder and science in depictions of the moon. Artemis to Armstrong unites objects from three Middlebury collections: Museum, Archives, and Science Library.

September 3–December 8, 2019
This fall the Museum will launch MuseumLab, an experiment in interdisciplinary learning which will turn our Overbook Gallery into a “teaching laboratory,” displaying a diverse array of works selected for courses taught by professors from across Middlebury’s academic curriculum.

Ongoing, Lower Gallery
On view in this updated and revised installation are recent acquisitions in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art as well as Greek, Roman, and medieval European objects from the Museum’s permanent collection. Highlights include an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting.

Ongoing, Cerf Gallery
This installation, which changes regularly, features highlights of the Museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture.

Ongoing
On view in this gallery is a wide range of East Asian ceramics: Chinese funerary sculpture from the Han (206 B.C.E–220 C.E.) and Tang (618–906) dynasties, celadons and other wares of the Song dynasty (960–1279), and blue-and-white enameled porcelains of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing dynasties (1644–1911). Also included in the installations are Japanese tea ceremony wares and Korean celadons.