Davis Museum at Wellesley College

10/20/2026

Explore our new touch stations on Levels 2 and 4 and our multisensory shelves on Level 1 of the Davis Museum!

Want to try it? Stop by the Davis Museum to discover objects that engage your sense of touch, smell, taste, and sound, corresponding to 13+ artworks throughout the museum, or try our “Making Sense of Art: A Multisensory Experience” Bloomberg Connects app tour!

Come see, touch, and experience art in a new way!🎨✨

Created by Wellesley College students with support from faculty and staff, these resources are part of museum-wide learning opportunities led by Semente, Curator of Education and Public Programs, and reflect the Davis’s ongoing commitment to making art more accessible through multiple modes of learning from art.



🎞️ Amaris Garza ‘27 and Siena Pietraszak ’29

10/19/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Family Day at the Davis on Saturday! 💛

It was a joy to fill the museum with families of all ages. We loved the story time, the crafts, and watching kids and grown-ups look closely at art together. Seeing the galleries full of curiosity and conversation was the best part of our weekend.

Thank you for spending the day with us. We hope this was the first of many visits, and we can’t wait to welcome you back soon.

Fall exhibitions are on view through May 30, 2027. Plan your next visit at the 🔗 in our bio.

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10/17/2026

📣 Reminder: Uncover centuries of history, art, and adventure at Family Day: In Search of Ancient Cities and Stones! 🔍✨

Inspired by our Fall 2026 special exhibitions—“Excavating Antioch: The Archaeology of an Ancient City” and “Shi: Stories in Stone”— explorers of all ages can explore Chinese stones and the ancient Roman city of Antioch. Enjoy interactive student-led tours, captivating storytelling, games, hands-on creative crafts, and delicious refreshments.

📅 Date: Saturday, October 17

⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

📍 Location: Davis Museum

🎟️ Admission: Free and open to all family members!

Tap the 🔗 in our bio for full event details. ✨

10/16/2026

Reminder 📣 Family Day happening tomorrow at the Davis! ❤️

Uncover centuries of history, art, and adventure at Family Day: In Search of Ancient Cities and Stones! 🔍✨

Inspired by our Fall 2026 special exhibitions—“Excavating Antioch: The Archaeology of an Ancient City” and “Shi: Stories in Stone”— explorers of all ages can explore Chinese stones and the ancient Roman city of Antioch. Enjoy interactive student-led tours, captivating storytelling, games, hands-on creative crafts, and delicious refreshments.

📅 Date: Saturday, October 17

⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

📍 Location: Davis Museum

🎟️ Admission: Free and open to all family members!

Tap the 🔗 in our bio for full event details. ✨

10/13/2026

Missed Daniela Rivera’s new opera—“Hacia Cuando (To When)”—at MASS MoCA this past weekend? Have no fear! You can hear more at the Davis this Thursday with Rivera’s close collaborator, Javier Bustos! 🎶

“Formas de Interpretar el Viento”
📅 Thursday, October 15, 5:30 pm
📍 Davis Museum, floor 5

Argentinian artist Javier Bustos brings “Breath,” a performance on an experimental electronic bandoneon he built and designed himself. As he works the bellows, the airflow shapes the sound and the lighting in the room. You may even notice it changing your own breathing. 🌬️

The bandoneon began in Germany and was reinterpreted in Argentina through tango. In “Breath” it becomes “the reinterpretation of a reinterpretation.”

Presented with the Spanish, Music, and Latin American Studies Departments, the Wellesley Art Department, and the Davis Museum. Free and open to all. Link in bio for details.



📸 Courtesy of Wellesley College Art Dept Javier Bustos MASS MoCA Daniela Rivera October ‘26

📸 Courtesy of Wellesley College Art Dept Javier Bustos MASS MoCA Daniela Rivera October ‘26

10/11/2026

“Excavating Antioch: The Archaeology of an Ancient City” — Curatorial Tour 🏛️📜

Step back in time to explore the ancient city of (modern Antakya, Türkiye) and unearth the complex histories behind its excavation.

Join Nicole Berlin, Associate Curator of Collections, for a tour examining daily life in antiquity through artifacts and archival materials—while unpacking the colonial-era 1930s excavations that dispersed Antioch’s material culture worldwide. Together, we’ll consider how histories are constructed and how museums can steward cultural heritage more responsibly today.

🗓 Tuesday, October 13, 3–4 PM

📍 Davis Museum

🎟 Free & open to all

👉 Tap the 🔗 in our bio to register now! (Limited to 20 participants)

10/09/2026

The Davis has lent the Met a knockout painting for what NYT’s Holland Cotter calls a knockout show. Don’t miss Wellesley’s painting by Lee Krasner in “Krasner and Po***ck: Past Continuous.” The exhibition is the first major New York presentation devoted to either artist in more than 20 years. Featuring over 120 works, it is the first exhibition to look at the full arc of their careers together. 🏛️✨

🖼️ Lee Krasner, Untitled, 1951, oil on canvas, Bequest of Merrill Millar Lake (Class of 1936) 1980.69

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Modern The Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications Po***ck-Krasner Foundation Brinda Kumar David Breslin The New York Times Holland Cotter Wellesley College

📷 Lulu Chow Wang (Class of 1966) and Ruth Gordon Shapiro ‘37 Director Dina Deitsch at a celebration of “Krasner and Po***ck: Past Continuous,” September 28, 2026.

📷 Ruth Gordon Shapiro ‘37 Director Dina Deitsch, Sonja Novak Koerner ‘51 Senior Curator of Collections and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs Amanda Gilvin, and Met Museum Associate Curator Brinda Kumar at a celebration of “Krasner and Po***ck: Past Continuous,” September 28, 2026.

10/08/2026

Uncover centuries of history, art, and adventure at Family Day: In Search of Ancient Cities and Stones! 🔍✨

Inspired by our Fall 2026 special exhibitions—“Excavating Antioch: The Archaeology of an Ancient City” and “Shi: Stories in Stone”— explorers of all ages can explore Chinese stones and the ancient Roman city of Antioch. Enjoy interactive student-led tours, captivating storytelling, games, hands-on creative crafts, and delicious refreshments.

📅 Date: Saturday, October 17

⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

📍 Location: Davis Museum

🎟️ Admission: Free and open to all family members!

Tap the 🔗 in our bio for full event details. ✨

10/05/2026

“Shi: Stories in Stone” — Curatorial Tour 🪨✨

Discover a tradition over 1,000 years in the making. Join Yuhua Ding, Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs, for an exclusive tour exploring natural stones are transformed into captivating works of art.

“Shi: Stories in Stone” offers cross-disciplinary perspectives bridging nature, science, art, and culture.

🗓 Wednesday, October 7, 3–4 PM

📍 Davis Museum

🎟 Free & open to all

👉 Tap the 🔗 in our bio to register now! (Limited to 20 participants)

This tour is supported by the Sandra Cohen Bakalar ‘55 Fund, Davis Museum Endowed Fund for International Cultural Programming, and Wellesley College Friends of Art at the Davis.

10/02/2026

The Davis Museum’s 2026–27 special exhibits are now on view