News of the World Behold the humble Fijian dish bearing tidings from Polynesia, an explorer’s ship, a ‘Disneyland’ museum circa mid-1700s and a Wake Forest bet on the future.BY CAROL L. HANNER In the mid-1700s, an artist on an unknown island in Fiji intricately carves […]
The Lam Museum recently accepted two large donations of artifacts that will significantly augment our Latin American permanent collection, as well as add to our education collection which is used to provide hands-on learning opportunities for K-12 students. Dr. Tim Wallace, a retired associate professor […]
The Lam Museum’s newest exhibit, Guī Shù Gǎn: Between Belonging and Isolation in the WFU Chinese Community, was curated by senior sociology major Hex Li (’22). 归属感 (Guī Shù Gǎn) roughly translates to “Sense of Belonging” in English. The exhibit examines how Chinese international students […]
The Lam Museum is excited to present Living Arts of the Hopi, a new exhibit on view from February 15 to December 9. The Hopi Tribe of northeastern Arizona have artistic traditions that are hundreds of years old. The objects featured in this exhibit show […]
The Museum staff is very excited to formally introduce our new name and logo. The logo of the Timothy S.Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology is representative of both the Museum’s global outlook and specific story. For an anthropology museum, the staff thought about visual elements […]