Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art

April 12, 2025 to July 27, 2025

The Toledo Museum of Art presents the first monographic exhibition of the eminent Dutch flower still life painter Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750). At a time when women’s access to careers as professional artists was severely limited, Ruysch nevertheless became highly successful and widely renowned. Despite the great success she experienced during her lifetime, Ruysch has never received the attention she deserves. The exhibition explores her fascinating life and work for the first time and juxtaposes them with those of her sister Anna, who was an accomplished flower painter in her own right but is all but forgotten today. Learn more.

Opulent Echoes: Artistic Journeys in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Now through June 29, 2025

While long-distance interactions such as trade, exploration, and conflict have shaped human societies for millennia, the 16th and early 17th centuries marked a notable period of intensified global connectivity. By the 1500s Muslim traders traveled to Southeast Asia, representatives from the Chinese Ming Dynasty sailed to Africa, and Spanish galleons traversed the Pacific and Atlantic. The works displayed in this gallery—from the elaborate Safavid Persian carpet, delicate Venetian glass, and elegant Ming and Islamic ceramics to the groundbreaking paintings of the European Renaissance—attest to the power of luxury objects and their makers to transcend social differences, aesthetic boundaries, and linguistic barriers during these centuries. Learn more.

From Asia to the World

Now through June 29, 2025

From Asia to the World: Ancient to Contemporary Art celebrates more than one hundred years of collecting and exhibiting Asian art at the Toledo Museum of Art, featuring superb examples from the ancient period to the present. Sculptures of Buddhist and Hindu deities embody sophisticated ideas and philosophies, and blue-and white-porcelain, celadon, and enamel ceramics from China, Korea, and Japan highlight trade between Asia, Latin America, and Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Works by contemporary artists engage these histories as well as current political and social conditions. Learn more.

In a New Light: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Now through June 29, 2025

Works from TMA’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art are now on view in the SANAA-designed Glass Pavilion on the museum’s campus . Paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 1870s to the 1920s showcase the spectrum of artistic production in Europe and the United States as well as the importance of Japanese art for Western artists in this period. Learn more.

Africa Unmasked

Now through August 30, 2025

Africa Unmasked commemorates sixty-five years of African art collecting and exhibiting at the Toledo Museum of Art. Featuring sixteen exemplary works, ranging from the oldest to the most recent acquisitions, the display invites viewers to appreciate the permanent collection as both an example of African innovation and as an outgrowth of evolving European-American ideas about African culture. Learn more.

Expanding Horizons

Now through August 30, 2025

This installation celebrates, complicates, and above all, aims to instill curiosity and inquiry about American art. Expanding Horizons: The Evolving Character of a Nation features more than 80 objects from TMA’s collection, exploring understudied narratives, confronting misconceptions, putting select works in conversation with each other and inviting visitors to share feedback that will help shape future installations going forward. Learn more.

Return to Turtle Island: Indigenous Nation-Building in the Eighteenth Century

Now through June 29, 2025

Return to Turtle Island: Indigenous Nation-Building in the Eighteenth Century celebrates the sophisticated social, political, and creative systems developed by Indigenous peoples prior to and during their interactions with European settlers. Turtle Island is the name given to the North American continent by Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and other First American and Canadian First Nations peoples, referencing the origin story of a landmass built on the back of a great turtle.   Learn more.