Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - Temporary Exhibitions

Temporary Exhibitions

• House of Love: Photographic Fiction, Dayanita Singh. As the Museum’s 2008 Robert Gardner Photography Fellow, Dayanita Singh explored the human condition through images that began as a photographic diary and became the photographic fiction she titled House of Love.

• Native Life in the Americas: Artists' Views. Native Life showcases the work of important though not well-known artists who focused on various aspects of Native American life and culture.

• Storied Walls: Murals of the America. Throughout time and around the world, people have adorned the walls of their homes, palaces, tombs, temples, and government buildings with painted scenes and designs. Storied Walls explores spectacular wall paintings in Arizona, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.

• Translating Encounters: Travel and Transformation in the Early Seventeenth Century. Wonder, confusion, and curiosity: just a few of the responses by Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans in the age of exploration, as each struggled to comprehend the other. Inspired by collections of the Peabody Museum, Houghton Library, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, this exhibit broadly explores global mobility, encounter, and exchange in colonial encounters among peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

• Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West. Co-curators Castle McLaughlin and Lakota artist Butch Thunder Hawk use ambient sound, motion, scent, and historic and contemporary Plains art to animate nineteenth century Lakota drawings from a warrior’s ledger collected at the Little Bighorn battlefield. This exhibit presents Lakota perspectives on westward expansion while exploring culturally-shaped relationships between words, objects, and images.