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.
Past Exhibits
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February 5, 2024 to June 7, 2024
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Reflecting on the university's 331 years
February 5, 2024 to April 21, 2024This 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 university’s history. We invited a broad, interdisciplinary community of William & Mary individuals, small groups, and organizations to create their own t-shirts which share their telling of institutional history.
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The Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana
April 10, 2023 to January 22, 2024English 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 the first half of his career he flouted Victorian social standards with the provocative subject matter of his poetry and his scandalous personal life. Yet in his later years he eschewed much of his former passionate excess and became socially respectable.
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Scholarship on Display
May 11, 2023 to January 7, 2024Scholarship on Display: Physics highlights the dynamic and multi-faceted research and scholarship of the William & Mary Physics faculty.
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An Exhibition of Christmas Critters
November 20, 2023 to January 5, 2024This 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 poem only mentions a mouse and a team of reindeer, the many artistic adaptations include an expanded representation of Santa’s animal friends, illuminating the wonderful creatures who make our houses feel like home.
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Class of 1939 Artist in Residence Exhibition
November 30, 2023 to December 14, 2023An 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.
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The First Three Asian Ancestry Women at W&M
January 25, 2023 to May 7, 2023Charting 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.
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February 10, 2023 to April 21, 2023
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 College and its Indian school in a wider narrative about the trans-Atlantic colonial encounter. Remembering includes responses from several Native artists from tribes that sent students to the Brafferton Indian School in the eighteenth century.
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Scholarship on Display
April 29, 2022 to January 22, 2023The 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 dynamic and multi-faceted research and scholarship of the Linguistics program’s faculty, some co-authored with students.
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featuring the Nancy H. Marshall "A Visit from St. Nicholas" Collection
November 21, 2022 to January 5, 2023