This fall, Winston-Salem will welcome the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) 75th Annual Meeting, bringing more than 600 museum professionals to town. SEMC is an organization that fosters networking, professional development, educational opportunities, communication, and diversity for museums across our region. The Lam Museum staff has […]
The Lam Museum stewards over 100 artifacts from the Bura Asinda-Sikka culture, whose people lived in present-day Niger during the first and early second millennium CE. In March 2026, the Museum and its research partner, the Art & Antiquities Blockchain Consortium, sponsored a workshop facilitated […]
The Lam Museum is pleased to present two craft workshops this summer. Registration for both is now open. The workshops are designed for adults and children ages 10 and up. The fee for each workshop is $25 per participant ($20 for Lam Museum members). Space […]
On March 17, the Museum will open two new student-curated exhibits that will share space in our largest exhibit gallery. Pocket Change: A Story of Coins through Time will showcase more than 100 coins from ancient China and the Mediterranean. Each coin is […]
The Museum’s latest exhibit, Return to Sender? Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Repatriation, features Aboriginal Australian art, tools, and other objects from the permanent collection. It discusses the complexities of sovereignty and ownership of these objects in museums and explores the idea of repatriation, returning objects […]
This fall semester, the Lam Museum is excited to present a series of free lectures about archaeology across the Americas featuring sites in Peru, Guatemala, and North Carolina. On Monday, September 15, at 5:00pm, archaeologists Dr. Matthew Sayre and Dr. Silvana Rosenfeld of High Point […]