The Museum has created online versions for some important exhibitions. 

From Combat to Carpet: The Art of Afghan War Rugs

The Museum of International Folk Art presents From Combat to Carpet: The Art of Afghan War Rugs, a traveling exhibition curated by Enrico Mascelloni and Annemarie Sawkins and featuring more than 40 handwoven rugs with war-related iconography collected over the past forty years.

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Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico

The exhibition Música Buena: The exhibition will focus on the rich history of traditional Hispano music from the arrival of the Spanish through the present. Once in New Mexico, historic European traditions took on a new life and feel, blending with Native customs and reflecting the land, time, and place where these folkloric songs and traditions developed.

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VIRTUAL Community through Making From Peru to New Mexico

Community through Making brought together local and Peruvian artists to explore how art shapes healthy and vibrant communities. The installation was a conversation across borders, highlighting three collaborative projects that paired local artists and artists from Peru for 10-day residencies in conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. This exhibition in the Gallery of Conscience experimented with community curation, filling the gallery with video, stories, and artworks as created and told by museum program participants over the course of 18 months.

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Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe

Alexander Girard was one of the most influential interior and textile designers of the 20th century. Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe is the first major retrospective on Girard’s work, organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. With this new VIRTUAL TOUR open a door to his creative universe and shows his close relationships with contemporaries such as Charles & Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Andy Warhol, Rudi Gernreich, and many others. Featured are Girard’s designs in textiles, furniture, and sculptures, as well as numerous sketches, drawings, and collages never shown before.

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Yōkai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan

Yōkai is a catchall Japanese word for ghosts, demons, monsters, shapeshifters, tricksters, and other kinds of supernatural beings and mysterious phenomena. In this online exhibition complementing the exhibition of the same name, explore all kinds of yōkai and the ways that they became pop-culture sensations in Japan!

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A screen shot from the online exhibition.

Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia (2009)

The exhibition presented an introduction to the cultural context of Indonesia, interpretation for the basic elements of performance including gamelan, the stories and characters presented in classic wayang performance, aspects of contemporary performance, various forms of wayang found in Indonesia, and the incredible, labor-intensive process of making wayang kulit. The exhibition won an award from the American Association of Museums for Overall Excellence in Exhibitions, 2010.

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A screen shot from the online exhibition.

‌‌¡Carnaval! (2005)

This major exhibition re-creates the dazzling sights, sounds and the pageantry of Carnival celebrations around the world today. The exhibit transports viewers to eight rural and urban locations in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and North America, where Carnival is among the most important occasions of the year.

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A screen shot from the online exhibition.

Cerámica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayolica (2002)

Cerámica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica tells us a story about mayólica, for a time, one of the world's most coveted ceramics. We learn about the Islamic origins of Spanish mayólica as well as the role that trade played in the history of Spanish and Mexican mayólica. We also discover interesting facts about Spanish daily life through the forms and imagery depicted on mayólica vessels. Finally, we learn about the traditional mayólica process and the efforts by contemporary potters to keep it alive. Each piece of pottery in this on-line exhibit forms a part of this story; together they take us on an intriguing journey. Bilingual exhibition available in English and Spanish.

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A screen shot from the online exhibition.

100 Aspects of the Moon (2001)

Yoshitoshi’s series, One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, completed shortly before his death in 1892, epitomizes the restraint and subtlety that define his later work. Published between 1885 and 1892, this series of 100 individual woodblock prints depicts figures from Japanese and Chinese legend, history, literature, folklore and theater.

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A screen shot from the online exhibition.

Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era (1999)

Hundreds of Hispana and Hispano artists created art for the various New Deal programs during the 1930s and 1940s under the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sin Nombre (Without Name) presents the work of these artists, who have been almost completely undocumented during this important period. Bilingual exhibition available in English and Spanish.

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A screen shot from the online exhibition.

Paño: Art from the Inside Out (1996)

Whether intensely spiritual or brazenly secular, paño art draws on the deepest emotions of prisoners whose artistic expression is limited only by the materials at hand. The word paño (Spanish for cloth or handkerchief) has come to mean the art form itself -- a ball point pen or colored pencil drawing on a handkerchief.

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