Exhibitions

2025 Open Education Week: Sharing Memories of Your Favorite Children’s Book(s)
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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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Movement in Miniature
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Though many think of pop-up books as mainly for children, books with moving parts have been around for centuries and...
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Live Music Memories
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Andy Meyer, PhD ’97, has supported local live music and saved concert tickets since the 1980s. This two-part collection illustrates...
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The Freedom Suits
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The Freedom Suits exhibition tells the extraordinary history of people who sued for freedom from enslavement in the 19th century....
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Snakes on the Page
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Snakes, serpents, vipers, or pythons… regardless of what you call them, it is undeniable that these legless reptiles have captivated...
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Past Exhibitions
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Exhibition Ideas, Art, and Community: My Zine Collection
-ACLU of Missouri's Nicole Rainey has been collecting zines since the 1990s and shares a portion of them here in...View Exhibition about Ideas, Art, and Community: My Zine Collection -
Exhibition Counter/Narratives: (Re)presenting Race & Ethnicity
-Counter/Narrative investigates ideas surrounding the (re)presentation of historical narratives through artwork and artifacts.View Exhibition about Counter/Narratives: (Re)presenting Race & Ethnicity -
Exhibition The Magic in His Hands: Charles Johnson’s Artistic Versatility
-The Magic in His Hands presents selections from Johnson's papers and shows how he transcends presupposed boundaries.View Exhibition about The Magic in His Hands: Charles Johnson’s Artistic Versatility -
Exhibition Chiura Obata, an Artist Behind Barbed Wire: 80 Years After the Incarceration
-The Chiura Obata exhibition provides history on the artist’s incarceration and showcases paintings made during that period.View Exhibition about Chiura Obata, an Artist Behind Barbed Wire: 80 Years After the Incarceration -
Exhibition Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood
-Leaving China is an exhibition of work by artist James McMullan focusing on watercolor paintings about his childhood during World...View Exhibition about Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood -
Exhibition Created Equal: Slavery and the Declaration of Independence
-Created Equal looks at historical documents like the Declaration of Independence to elaborate on the narratives told by and with...View Exhibition about Created Equal: Slavery and the Declaration of Independence -
Exhibition Belonging: Recent Graphic Novels from German-Speaking Countries
-The Belonging exhibition showcases German-language graphic novels in the Mike Lutzeler Contemporary German Literature Collection of WashU Libraries.View Exhibition about Belonging: Recent Graphic Novels from German-Speaking Countries -
Exhibition Joy Williams: Honored Guest
-With her connections to writers in the Modern Literature Collection and as the first female fiction writer to house papers...View Exhibition about Joy Williams: Honored Guest -
Exhibition 11 Wood+ Chairs Designed by Architects+ 1807-1996
-The 11 Wood+ Chairs Designed by Architects+ 1807-1996 exhibition from the 2021 Design Culture course features 11 wood chair designs...View Exhibition about 11 Wood+ Chairs Designed by Architects+ 1807-1996 -
Exhibition Legendary: Horses and Classical Chinese Literature
-Legendary is an exhibition inspired by Chinese culture and literature highlighting essential works from the East Asian Library’s Collection.View Exhibition about Legendary: Horses and Classical Chinese Literature -
Exhibition Higher Ground
-Higher Ground seeks to honor and make visible the lives of people and the land that has seen both racial injustice...View Exhibition about Higher Ground -
Exhibition Transnational Framings: German Visual Culture in the Age of Nationalism, 1848-1919
-Transnational Framings demonstrates how mass-produced, illustrated media molded a national identity following the revolutions of 1848.View Exhibition about Transnational Framings: German Visual Culture in the Age of Nationalism, 1848-1919