Exhibits Highlight WFU Student Research

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 […]


Exhibit of Hopi Arts to Open in February

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 […]


Spring Semester Event Protocols

Wake Forest University has instituted new COVID protocols for in-person campus events.  Until further notice, we will require visitors attending events at the Museum to follow these rules. Masks must be worn indoors at all times. Proof of vaccination and booster shot, or a negative […]


New Name, New Look

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 […]


MOA Receives Naming Gift

In 2012, Wake Forest alumnus Timothy S. Y. Lam (’60) donated his collection of more than 500 pieces of Tang Dynasty Chinese ceramics to the Museum of Anthropology shortly before he passed away.  The collection is the largest and most comprehensive group of artifacts in […]


MOA Artifacts Inspire Upcoming WFU Hackathon

In 2005, hundreds of earthenware pots and other pre-Columbian artifacts from ancient West Mexico became part of the collections of Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. The objects donated to the collection included 162 complete ceramic vessels, ceramic figurines, greenstone beads and necklaces, an obsidian […]


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