September 12, 2012
On September 20, VMFA will celebrate the public opening of the new East Asian art galleries. The East Asian suite – about 5,000 square feet – is devoted to display 250 artworks in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean galleries. Many of the works acquired in recent years will be on display for the first time.
May 25, 2011
As part of the Egyptian Gallery’s reinstallation, the Virginia Musem of Fine Arts’ 4000-year-old mummy, Tjeby, “the Count and Sealbearer to the King,” is back on view.
March 31, 2011
After being off view for more than five years, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s Classical Art gallery has reopened to the public in an expanded space with an all-new installation
January 3, 2011
Regarded as one of the strongest African Art collections in the United States, the museum’s collection spans 2,000 years with more than 100 cultures represented through some 500 works.
April 2, 2010
When the doors of the expanded Virginia Museum of Fine Arts open on Saturday, May 1, the first work of art that visitors will see is “Art History is Not Linear (VMFA),” a Ryan McGinness painting commissioned by the museum.
March 25, 2010
The European Art Department at VMFA comprises more than 10,000 objects in all media dating from the Early Middle Ages to the 20th Century, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts and works on paper. It includes the Mellon Collections of British Sporting Art, French Art, American Sporting and Historical Art, and Jewelry and objects by Jean Schlumberger.
March 4, 2010
VMFA is an important center for the study of American visual culture
March 4, 2010
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts owns 208 Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels, textiles, sculptures and metalwork objects from Meso, Central and South America as part of its Ancient American Art Collection.
Mar 01, 2011
March 3, 2010
Collection includes objects from Egyptian, Near Eastern, Aegean, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Byzantine cultures
March 3, 2010
One of the most significant public collections outside Paris of Art Nouveau and Art Déco
