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

DateTuesday, March 19, 2024. 9:00am - Thursday, May 9, 2024. 5:00pm
Location
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Hands On!

DateTuesday, March 19, 2024. 9:00am - Thursday, May 9, 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
Friday, May 27, 2022 - Tuesday, May 30, 2023. All day

This exhibit features cultural objects that entered Stanford University's collections from the modern states of Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan, and South Sudan.

Date
Friday, May 31, 2019. 3:30pm - Friday, March 13, 2020. 5:30pm

In Trading Faces: Aspects of a 20th-century Northwest Coast Collection, exploration of carvings, prints, paintings, and other items from Canada and Alaska reveals tension between category and…

Date
Thursday, June 7, 2018. 8:30am - Thursday, May 16, 2019. 5:30pm

The archaeology exhibit Our Dark Materials: Rediscovering an Egyptian Collection presents new examination of a forgotten collection.

Date
Tuesday, May 15, 2018. 12:00pm - Thursday, May 16, 2019. 5:30pm

This exhibit highlights the multi-colored manifestations of iron-bearing surfaces in ceramics from Korea and the Americas, including both ancient and contemporary artworks.

Date
Friday, June 2, 2017. 3:30pm - Thursday, May 17, 2018. 10:30am

People and artifacts have intimately connected Stanford University to the Pacific world since the late 19th century.