Exhibitions

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

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

Virtual Exhibitions

Interactive Map of Textiles in Woven Narratives

Dolls Around the World (2025)

A Taste of Wealth: Understanding Status through the Stanford Family (2025)

What Makes an Artifact? (2025)

Virtual Tour of De la Tierra: Indigenous Ceramics from West Mexico Transcending Time and Space (2024)

Women in the World: Gender and the Origins of Stanford's Anthropological Collections (2021)

Modeling Mesoamerica: Origins and Originality in a Teaching Collection (2020)

Our Dark Materials: Rediscovering an Egyptian Collection (2019)

Chinese American at Stanford: A Reflexive Archaeology (2018)

Inventory Find of the Week (2018-2019)

Stuff: Perspectives on Meaningful Objects (2018)

Collecting in Life and Death: The Curatorial Legacy of Leland Stanford Jr. - 3D (2017)

Gallery for the Before Stanford Public Symposium (2016)

Past Exhibitions

Woven Narratives: Textiles as Living Archives

Date

Wednesday, April 15, 2026. 9:00am - 5:00pm

Textiles are intimate creations, worn on our bodies or otherwise integrated into daily life.

Woven by Women: Micronesian Art After World War II

Date

Thursday, March 6, 2025. 9:00am - Monday, March 2, 2026. 4:00pm

Woven by Women: Micronesian Art After World War II, curated by Alana Joy Okonkwo (Archaeology and Black Studies, Class of 2026), examines several Micronesian objects collected between…

A Story in Pieces: Ceramic Production Techniques in Korea

Date

Tuesday, March 4, 2025. 9:00am - Monday, March 2, 2026. 4:00pm

A Story in Pieces: Ceramic Production Techniques in Korea, curated by Leo Baek (Archaeology and Art History, Class of 2025), focuses on a variety of objects related to Korean ceramic…

African Iron: Bridging Sacred and Secular

Date

Wednesday, December 4, 2024. 9:00am - Monday, March 2, 2026. 4:00pm

African Iron: Bridging Sacred and Secular, curated by Eva Middleton (PhD student, Anthropology, Archaeology track) features African objects housed at SUAC that highlight the history of…

Dolls Around the World

Date

Tuesday, December 3, 2024. 9:00am - Monday, March 2, 2026. 4:00pm

Dolls Around the World, curated by Ellie Luchini (History and Archaeology, Class of 2025), showcases dolls from the Stanford University Archaeology Collections.