Exhibitions
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's vast collections comprise more than 70,000 examples of fine, decorative, mechanical and folk art. Included are exceptional examples of American and British ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, costumes, tools, firearms, numismatics, metals, toys, prints, maps, paintings, drawings and architectural fragments from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, as well as American folk art up to the present day. Many of these objects are shown in innovative changing exhibitions at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg: the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum. Others are used to furnish more than 200 rooms in Williamsburg's historic buildings, where they provide guests with a better understanding of life in early Virginia.
Current Exhibitions
Elegance, Taste, and Style: The Mary D. Doering Fashion Collection
Stitched in Time
“I made this…”: The Work of Black American Artists and Artisans
Making Music in Early America
Restoring Williamsburg
A Gift to the Nation: The Joseph and June Hennage Collection
Keeping Time: Tall Case Clocks
Early American Faces
Introduction to the Art Museums
“Every Article… suitable for this Country”: Furnishing Early Williamsburg
British Masterworks: Ninety Years of Collecting at Colonial Williamsburg
To Arm Against An Enemy: Weapons of the Revolutionary War
Artists on the Move: Portraits for a New Nation
Upholstery CSI: Reading the Evidence
A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South
Richard Newsham’s Fire Engine
Rebuilding Charlton’s Coffeehouse
Revolution in Taste
Eddie Arning: Artist
Art of the Quilter
American Folk Pottery: Art and Tradition
The Art of Edward Hicks
Down on the Farm
From Forge and Furnace: A Celebration of Early American Iron
America’s Folk Art
American Ship Paintings
Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art
German Toys in America
Conserving the Carolina Room
We The People: American Folk Portraits
Celebrity in Print
Worlds Collide: Archaeology and Global Trade in 18th-century Williamsburg
