Exhibits at the Brown University Library
The Brown University Library displays a number of exhibits that showcase its vast collection of materials. Below is a listing of upcoming, current, past, and online exhibits.
The Library welcomes exhibit proposals from current members of the Brown University community at least six to eight months before the date desired for most exhibition spaces and 24 months in advance for the Harriette Hemmasi Gallery at the John Hay Library. Please complete the Library Exhibit Proposal Form.
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Revolutionary Communication: Printing Independence and the Birth of the American Stamp
April 30 - Dec 13, 2026
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A Pictorial Dragon, the Work of Fernando Birri: A Bilingual Online Exhibit
Online Library Exhibit
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Shared Magma: An American and Swedish Collaboration on Sisterhood and Sister Ore
September 10, 2025 - May 24, 2026
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Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
August 21, 2025 - May 24, 2026
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Caricature and Character: The Visuals of Race in the Lincoln Archive
Student Curated Online Exhibition
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"A Blind Horror Beyond All Rational Proportion": The Racial Imaginaries of H.P. Lovecraft
Student Curated Online Exhibition
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Akan Gold Weights: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Collection
May 26, 2022 - March 15, 2023
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Collecting with Distinction: Faculty Insights into Recent Acquisitions
November 22, 2019 - February 28, 2020
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Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries
May 21-October 31, 2019
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Music Publishers Association (MPA) Paul Revere Award exhibit
December 1, 2018 - January 25, 2019
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Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón
November 7 - December 14, 2018
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The Poetry of Science: Dante’s Comedy and the Crafting of a Cosmos
July 3 - October 23, 2018
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Annual Address of the Carriers & Newsmen of the N.Y. Herald, 1851
January 5 - February 5, 2018
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Abbott “Tom” Gleason – History Professor and Artist: A Retrospective
October 11 - December 31, 2017
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Mobile Verse: Bus and Subway Poetry from the Harris Broadside Collection
June 26-August 3, 2017
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Works from Architectures of Islam & Architectures and Urbanism of Africa
January 6 - May 9, 2017
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An Alleged Murder: Court Documents from the State vs. Frances Leach, 1833
March 15 - April 2, 2017
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A Hymn for the Brave: the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II
September 19 – March 3, 2017
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Tricks and Illusions: Selections from the H. Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana
October 24 – December 23, 2016
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Works from Contemporary Architecture: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann
May 16, 2016 - September 10, 2016
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Tripping the Light Fantastic: Experimental Optics in the Victorian Era
March 29, 2016 - May 27, 2016
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Cardboard Revolution: Cartoneras, Literacy, and Sustainable Publishing in Brazil
March 30, 2016 - May 2, 2016
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Thousands of Little Colored Windows: Brown University's Stamp Collections
February 10, 2016 – May 13, 2016
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Are Les Bons Temps Still Rolling? New Orleans Music Culture 10 Years Later
Oct. 1, 2015 – March 2016
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Picturing Brown: Prints and Photographs from the Brown University Archives
March 8 2014-April 27 2014
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The Art of Illusion: Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana
December 2 2013-March 7 2014
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