Fall 2025 marks the final semester of Relaunch Laboratory, our multi-year exhibition where we have been piloting ideas for the permanent collection reinstallation.

Leading up to November 2026, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s 150th anniversary, Museum staff have been working with the campus and community to imagine new methods of display. This full-scale rethink aims to broaden and deepen the stories we are able to share, raise the voices of marginalized communities, and unseat traditional Eurocentric and colonialist perspectives that have dominated museum practices for centuries. Greeting visitors when they first walk in the Museum, Relaunch Laboratory is a working space for new ideas, themes, and juxtapositions as we plan our new galleries. Showcasing a wide range of global art while making connections across time and place, this long-term installation aims to elicit reflection as well as feedback from visitors

This exhibition is made possible by the Susan B. Weatherbie Exhibition Fund

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