Exhibits
The University of Michigan Library regularly exhibits the rich and unique collections of its nineteen libraries. The Library also collaborates with the UM community, as well as local and national artists, programs and organizations to host exhibits in our spaces. The exhibits are both digital and physical, displayed in galleries and in exhibit spaces throughout the Libraries.
Please see the map of exhibit spaces in the menu at the left and browse our featured online exhibits below.
Featured Online Exhibits
During the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Vignaud, an American diplomat living in Paris, was amassing a large personal library, including books, atlases, maps, and other publications. In 1923-4 the University of Michigan acquired his library from his widow. His map collection was divided between the ...
Birthing Reproductive Justice:
150 Years of Images and Ideas
Reproductive Justice -- the right to have children, not to have children, and to parent children in healthy and safe environments -- is a movement and perspective that arose in the 1990s as a broader alternative to reproductive rights advocacy focused on...
From General Library to Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library is an exhibit of photographs of the establishment and evolution of the University of Michigan Library and its major building, the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library.
The Organic Act of March 18, 1837, established the...
This exhibit highlights selected unique interior and exterior features of the University of Michigan University Library's buildings.
From the birth of the University of Michigan in 1837, the Legislature and the Board of Regents prioritized the creation and maintenance of a library. John James Audubon's Birds of America ...
A selection of items from Sacred Hands, an exhibit which was on display in the Library's Audubon Room from January 13 - March 4, 2012. The exhibition catalog can be viewed online and downloaded in...
