As the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of its founding, Museum staff have been looking to the past as we plan for our future. The artists represented in this exhibition similarly draw upon history in the creation of their work, whether as a source of inspiration, a critical reframing, or an act of reclamation. Some artists layer historical archival materials with their own interventions, creating new syncretic images, while others repurpose and reimagine 19th-century photographs to comment on both the past and the present. Several draw on the art historical canon, referencing and reinventing older forms. The exhibition explores contemporary artists’ fascination with history and, more particularly, with the history of art. Now, on the event of the Museum’s 150th anniversary, works like these allow us to reflect on the long history of our own collection and how we are reinterpreting it for the future.