Last updated: 6/5/2024
204 W Washington Street
Lexington, VA 24450
Temporarily Closed for Exhibit Installation - will reopen on August 28, 2024
Wednesday - Saturday
10 AM - 5 PM
Monday - Friday
8 AM - 5 PM
The Museums at Washington and Lee University (Museums at W&L) advance learning through direct engagement with the collections and facilitate an interdisciplinary appreciation of art, history, and culture. The Museums at W&L consist of the University Chapel & Galleries, the Reeves Museum of Ceramics, and Watson Galleries. Works from the ceramics, art and history collections are also on view in several campus buildings.
The Museums at W&L advance learning through direct engagement with the collections and facilitate an interdisciplinary appreciation of art, history, and culture.
Founded in 1967 with a gift of ceramics from alumnus Euchlin Reeves and his wife, the painter Louise Herreshoff, the Reeves Collection contains ceramics made in Asia, Europe, and the Americas between 1500 and today. These fragile yet durable objects tell stories of design, technology, and trade, and illustrate how people drank, dined and decorated their homes over the past five centuries.
The Museum collections include multiple mediums by a diverse set of artists that expand across centuries. To see more works, visit our online database. Records may, at times, be added or removed for editing.
The University Chapel parking lot is not designed to hold large vehicles or motor coaches. Those vehicles should proceed to the Lexington Visitor Center to find proper parking.
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programs, student organizations, and more.
Art, ceramics, print and more ... see our online store on our W&L website.
https://store.wlu.edu/SiteText?id=90091
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