Exhibitions

SUAC presents original, rotating exhibits of artifacts and photographs from our cultural heritage collections, spanning disciplines, periods, and global cultures.

Scroll down to learn more about current & upcoming, virtual, and past exhibitions. 

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

DateMonday, April 22, 2024. 9:00am - Tuesday, April 30, 2024. 5:00pm
Location
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Hands On!

DateMonday, April 22, 2024. 9:00am - Tuesday, April 30, 2024. 5:00pm
Location
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

The Melancholy Museum: Love, Death, and Mourning at Stanford is an exhibition currently on view at the Cantor Arts Center.

Virtual Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

Date
Wednesday, July 13, 2016. 8:30pm - Monday, April 30, 2018. 8:30pm

In this provocative exhibit, Dahlton Brown (BAH, Native American Studies; MA, Education, Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies; Class…

Date
Friday, June 3, 2016. 3:00pm - Tuesday, October 31, 2017. 8:30pm

Archaeological artifacts reveal a Gilded Age “country dream” created at the Farm, the agrarian estate in Palo Alto that is now Stanford University, 

Date
Friday, May 20, 2016. 12:00pm - Tuesday, October 31, 2017. 8:30pm

Chinese American at Stanford: A Reflexive Archaeology is a reflexive, student-curated exhibit produced by Bright Zhou (Class of 2016) during an independent study course.

Date
Friday, June 3, 2016. 3:00pm - Friday, May 26, 2017. 8:30pm

As Stanford celebrates its 125th year, curators use discoveries of campus archaeology to ask, “where did Stanford come from?” Rather than taking 1891 as our university’s beginning, students…

Date
Friday, September 16, 2016. 2:15pm - Sunday, April 30, 2017. 12:00pm

Leland Stanford Jr.’s posthumously lauded artifact collection reveals how his legacy was shaped by personal memorialization and cultural trends of the late 19th and early 20th…