Exhibits at the Brown University Library
Every year 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.
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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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