Past Exhibits
Learn about Exhibits from the Past
Words, Music, Memory: Re(presenting) Voices of the Holocaust
May 12, 2023 – March 2, 2024
Take Time: Tea and Mindfulness
May 12, 2023 – March 2, 2024
MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction
September 7 – December 8, 2023
Human Evolution: Hot Topics in Paleoanthropology
February 21 – December 8, 2023
Dalit Rights and Dignity: Past, Present and Future
March 21 – August 23, 2023
New at the Lam: Recent Acquisitions
January 31 – August 19, 2023
Balinese Offerings
August 23, 2022 – April 22, 2023
Guī Shù Gǎn: Belonging and Isolation in the WFU Chinese Community
May 10, 2022 – March 3, 2023
Living Arts of the Hopi
February 15, 2022 – January 28, 2023
Culture at Stake
August 24, 2021 – August 6, 2022
Experiences of Colonialism in Latin America
January 18 – July 23, 2022
Animal Origin: Tokens and Tools from Faunal Remains
April 1, 2021 – April 16, 2022
The Private Lives of Pots
April 1 – December 10, 2021
Exchange in Melanesia
April 1 – December 10, 2021
Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
January 14 – March 16, 2020
Cultures, Contexts, & Collectors
January 28 – March 16, 2020
Un-Writing World History
November 21, 2019 – March 16, 2020
Stoneware on the Silk Roads: Ceramics from the Changsha Kilns
March 12, 2019 – March 16, 2020
Faith: Five World Religions
Long-term, closed March 16, 2020
Masks of the World
Long-term, closed March 16, 2020
Horses and the Human Experience
January 22, 2019 – December 6, 2019
A House Divided: Tri-Racial Tensions at Historic Bethabara
June 18 – November 9, 2019
Objects of Power: The Material Culture of Contested Memory
November 13, 2018 – August 24, 2019
Children’s Holidays in Japan
February 26 – June 1, 2019
Afro Pop!
September 18, 2018 – February 16, 2019
Human Evolution: Hot Topics in Paleoanthropology
January 9, 2018 – February 2, 2019
Japan through the Photographer’s Lens
January 23 – October 20, 2018
West Mexican Shaft Tomb Ceramics
May 19 – August 31, 2018
Escape the Museum: Central Africa
May 13, 2017 – August 18, 2018
Childhood: Exploring Youth Culture Around the World
Long-term, closed July 28, 2018
Mother Goddess: Fertility Figures of the Ancient Mediterranean
February 6 – May 13, 2018
Vienna: A City of Culture and Contrast
June 20 – December 8, 2017
Professor Deacon’s Cultural Cabinet
January 31 – July 29, 2017
How Do They Know? The Science of Archaeology in the Yadkin River Valley
Long-term, closed July 29, 2017
Incredible Journeys: The Life Histories of Museum Objects
April 19, 2016 – May 26, 2017
Warfare & Violent Conflict
March 14 – May 26, 2017
Visions of Home: A Celebration of Gullah Art & Culture
August 30, 2016 – April 22, 2017
Playing with Spirits: Pokémon and Shintoism
January 24 – March 4, 2017
Resonance: Musical Instruments in the African Diaspora
October 11 – December 9, 2016
The Many Meanings of African Cloth
June 7 – September 17, 2016
Musical Narratives of the Southwest Pacific Rim
March 15 – August 26, 2016
Death at the Crossroads: A Dramatic Reading of Yoruba Art
January 19 – August 6, 2016
Hina Matsuri: Doll’s Day in Japan
February 16 – May 27, 2016
A Glimpse of Africa: Five Cultures from the Continent
Long-term, closed March 24, 2016
MOA’s Cabinet of Curiosities
June 16, 2015 – February 20, 2016
At Home on the Plains
February 3, 2015 – February 6, 2016
Weaving Along the Silk Road: Amazing Asian Saddle Rugs
Long-term, closed September 2015
Chinese Ceramics from the Changsha Kilns
Long-term, closed July 2015
Understanding Our Past- Shaping Our Future
February 17 – May 29, 2015
The Yup’ik Way of Life: Alaskan People in Transition
February 28 – August 29, 2014
Creating: Quilts and Crafts of the Lakota
November 5, 2013 – January 25, 2014
Celebrating 50 Years of the Museum of Anthropology
January 15 – October 26, 2013
Descendants of the Maya
June 4 – August 31, 2013
This Beautiful World
January 22 – May 19, 2013
Recent Additions to the Collection
April 17 – December 14, 2012
Gazing at the Contemporary World: Japanese Photography from the 1970s to the Present
January 24 – March 31, 2012