Exhibitions
Nicky Zann: A Life in Art
Nicky Zann’s career started in 1957 and spanned over six decades. He is known as an innovative cartoonist, caricaturist, and...
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Stanley and Joan Elkin’s Artistic Kingdom
Stanley Elkin was a prolific fiction and essay writer and a professor of creative writing at WashU for 35 years....
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(Re)Collections: Drawn from the Vault
(Re)Collections: Drawn from the Vault presents new original artworks from first-year Master of Fine Arts in Illustration and Visual Culture...
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The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
The Assembled Playwright exhibition presents highlights from the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O’Neill. The exhibition includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs,...
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2025 Open Education Week: Sharing Memories of Your Favorite Children’s Book(s)
This interactive pop-up exhibition features about 50 award-winning titles recently added to the WashU Libraries’ Collection. It invites viewers to...
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Digital Exhibitions
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Exhibition Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita features early printed accounts of exploration and cultural encounters between Europe and the New World.View Exhibition about Terra Incognita -
Exhibition Ribbon Map of the Mississippi River from 1866
This is a digital presentation of The Ribbon Map of the Father of the Waters, published in St. Louis in...View Exhibition about Ribbon Map of the Mississippi River from 1866 -
Exhibition Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer
The exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer with primary source materials from the Libraries Film & Media Archive....View Exhibition about Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer -
Exhibition Picturing the School of Fine Art
A selection of images depicting the St. Louis School of Fine Arts from the late 1800s through the 1920s.View Exhibition about Picturing the School of Fine Art -
Exhibition Papyri Collection
A digitized exhibition of papyri fragments excavated by Sir William Flinders Petrie and the Egypt Exploration Society in 1923.View Exhibition about Papyri Collection -
Exhibition Music in Wartime
This exhibit investigates American political attitudes during World War I as revealed in the popular music of the time.View Exhibition about Music in Wartime -
Exhibition More Than One Thing
An exhibition with the film More Than One Thing, which explores how St. Louis views the Pruitt-Igoe housing development.View Exhibition about More Than One Thing -
Exhibition The Printing House of the Family Blaeu
This exhibition highlights examples of cartographic printing produced by the printing house established by Willem Jansz(oon) Blaeu.View Exhibition about The Printing House of the Family Blaeu -
Exhibition The State of the Union: Reconstructing a Thomas Jefferson Family Library
This exhibition highlights the 82 items within the 1880 gift by Joseph Coolidge that were discovered to have once belonged...View Exhibition about The State of the Union: Reconstructing a Thomas Jefferson Family Library -
Exhibition Thrill Seekers: The Rise of Men’s Magazines
Thrill Seekers features the artwork of mid-century men's magazines from the Dowd Illustration Research Archive.View Exhibition about Thrill Seekers: The Rise of Men’s Magazines -
Exhibition Declaration of Independence
An exhibition of the Southwick Broadside, which was given to Washington University by the Newman Family in 2015.View Exhibition about Declaration of Independence