The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) announces its 2025 exhibition highlights, which span diverse themes and cultures, celebrating the enduring beauty, history, and innovation of art. From Indigenous diplomacy to scientific discovery to the glamour of Hollywood’s golden age, TMA exhibitions underscore the museum’s mission of integrating art into the lives of people while broadening the narratives of art history.
“2025 will be a year of firsts at the Toledo Museum of Art—an overdue first exhibition for Rachel Ruysch and the unveiling of two collections to the public for the first time,” said Adam Levine, Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey Director, President, and CEO of TMA. “As a whole, the program continues our commitment to showcasing artistic excellence across time, culture, and medium.”
Ancestral Great Lakes Artists, Birchbark Model Canoe and Three Dolls with Assorted Equipment. Birchbark, pigment, hide, wool, cotton, silk, wax, human hair, metal, glass beads, and shell, mid-18th century. Canoe: 26 5/8 × 7 × 5 5/8 in. (67.6 × 17.8 × 14.3 cm). Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gifts of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange, 2023.362, 2023.368a–n, 2023.364, 2023.372
On view March 1-June 29, Return to Turtle Island: Indigenous Nation-Building in the Eighteenth Centuryexplores the artistry and diplomacy of eighteenth-century Indigenous Eastern Woodlands communities through quillwork, beadwork, and embroidery, highlighting their role in cross-cultural exchange and political alliances. This exhibition marks the first time these works, acquired by TMA in 2023, will be shown together by a public institution.
Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664–1750), Flower Still Life. Oil on canvas, about 1716–20. 29 3/4 x 23 7/8 in. (75.6 x 60.6 cm). Toledo Museum of Art, purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1956.57
Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art, on view April 12-July 27, celebrates one of history’s most accomplished Dutch still-life painters. This landmark exhibition features over 100 paintings, drawings, books, and specimens, including many international loans, that reveal Ruysch’s mastery and her connections to botany and natural history during the Scientific Revolution.
The dazzling Radiance and Reverie: Jewelry from the Collection of Neil Lanedisplays over 150 iconic works from Neil Lane’s personal collection from October 18-January 18, 2026. It includes jewelry worn by Hollywood legends and provides a glamorous journey through 100 years of jewelry design excellence.
