Exhibitions and Programs

Exhibitions

“Perhaps hereafter it will delight you to remember this”:
A Brief Introduction to the History of Sweet Briar College
Alumnae Gallery (“Pink Gallery”)
Opened May 2012; on view indefinitely
Click here for a PDF copy of the exhibition checklist.

Tusculum: The History of a House
Whitley Gallery
On view through early March 2013. Please note, a smaller selection of Tusculum artifacs will be on view in the Alumnae Gallery (“Pink Gallery”) March through December 2013.

Click here for a PDF copy of the extended exhibition checklist.

 “I have lately bought me a Plantation”: A Brief Survey of Farming and Land Use at Sweet Briar
 Whitley Gallery
 On view March 2013-April 2014. Click here for a PDF copy of the exhibition checklist.

“Simply Justice and Fair Play”: Sweet Briar's Engagement with Civil Rights in the 1960s
Whitley Gallery
Scheduled to be on view May 2014-April 2015.

Programs

Open House at the Sweet Briar Museum
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013
1-4 p.m.
Students, professors, staff and the campus community and friends are invited to stop by for light refreshments and to take a look at freshly installed displays and learn about plans for future exhibitions.

Open House at the Sweet Briar Museum
Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014
1-4 p.m.
Students, professors, staff and the campus community and friends are invited to stop by for light refreshments and to take a look at freshly installed displays and learn about plans for future exhibitions.

Ghost Stories of Sweet Briar
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013
Friday, Nov. 1, 2013
5-7 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m. Program begins at 5:30 p.m. Light refreshments served after the program.

Click here for a PDF copy of the 2012 program.
Click here for a PDF copy of the anticipated 2013 program.

Sweet Briar students read fictional short stories and poems about Daisy Williams written by the College's earliest students and published in the Sweet Briar Magazine over a century ago. Artifacts associated with Daisy and her life at Sweet Briar will be highlighted.