Exhibits

 

In communities of all sizes, traveling exhibitions are special events that help identify libraries as important cultural centers. Libraries hosting traveling exhibitions present many related public programs, including lectures by scholars, panel discussions, book and film discussion series, school and college class tours and curriculum activities, essay contests, and concerts. The ALA Public Programs Office coordinates traveling exhibitions for libraries across the country.

Recent Submissions

  • Thinking Money for Kids 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2021)
  • World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2022-09-28)
  • Americans and the Holocaust: How Did American Women Act? Heroism on the Home Front 
    Unknown author (2023)
  • Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2006-08-07)
    Project files from “Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World," a traveling exhibit organized by the ALA Public Programs Office in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Benjamin Franklin ...
  • Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2002)
    Project files from “Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend" a traveling exhibit organized by the ALA Public Programs Office in collaboration with the Newberry Library. The exhibit, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death ...
  • Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2004)
    Project files from exhibition “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians.” A traveling exhibition from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with the ALA Public Programs Office. The exhibit ...
  • Go Figure! 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2000)
    Project files from "Go Figure!" a traveling exhibition organized by the Minnesota Children’s Museum (MCM) in cooperation with the ALA, which traveled to 75 libraries around the country. The exhibit included an interactive ...
  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2002)
    Project files from "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature," a traveling exhibition organized by the National Library Of Medicine in cooperation with the ALA. The exhibit examined the novel "Frankenstein," what ...
  • Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2002)
    Project files from "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation," a traveling exhibition organized by The Huntington Library and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, in cooperation with the ALA. ...
  • Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington 
    ALA Public Programs Office (1995)
    Project files from "Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington" traveling exhibition, organized by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the American Library Association. 30 libraries throughout ...
  • Beyond Words - Celebrating America's Libraries 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2001)
    Project files from "Beyond Words - Celebrating America's Libraries" traveling exhibition, organized by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association. The exhibit consisted of 21 award-winning photographs. ...
  • Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America 
    ALA Public Programs Office (2004)
    Project files from "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America" traveling exhibition, organized by the New-York Historical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the American Library ...