The Special Collections Department's exhibition space is now in its new facility, the Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library.
| Exhibition
Title |
Dates |
| Virginia Visions |
May 18, 2007- December 8, 2007 |
| Firebird and the Factory: Modern Russian Children's Books |
December 8, 2006- April 18, 2007 |
| The Style of Power: Building a New Nation |
February 7 - September 30, 2006 |
| American Journeys: Columbus to Kerouac |
November 9, 2005-January 3, 2006 |
| Building the University Library |
April 7 - August 27, 2004 |
| Portraits from the Golden Age
of Jazz: Photographs by William P. Gottlieb |
November 14, 2003 - March 5,
2004 |
| Breaking
and Making Tradition: Women at the University
of Virginia |
May 16,
2003- November 3, 2003 |
| Lewis
& Clark: The Maps of Exploration 1507 -
1814 |
November 11, 2002 - May 5,
2003 |
| In
the Brilliancy of the Footlights: Creating America's
Theatre |
June 21 - October 26, 2002
|
| Rave
Reviews: Bestselling Fiction in America |
February 22, 2002- June
10, 2002 |
| Lift
Every Voice: Music in American Life |
September 28, 2001- February
11, 2002 |
|
Private Passions, Public Legacy : Paul Mellon's
Personal Library at the University of Virginia |
March 2, 2001-September
18, 2001 |
| CENSORED:
Wielding the Red Pen |
September 29, 2000 - February
19, 2001 |
| Pop
Goes the Page: Movable and Mechanical Books
from the Brenda Forman Collection |
May 12, 2000-August 18, 2000 |
| Red,
White, Blue and Brimstone: New World Literature
and the American Millennium |
November 19, 1999-April 28,
2000 |
| All the Hoos in Hooville: 175 Years of Life at the
University of Virginia |
June 1, 1999-October 30, 1999 |
| Sublime
Anxiety: the Gothic Family and the Outsider |
October 15, 1998-March 31, 1999
|
| The
James Rogers McConnell Memorial Collections |
1998-ongoing |
| The
Psychedelic '60s: Literary Traditions and Social
Change |
April 1 - September 15, 1998
|
| The
Barrett Daycare Center, 1935- |
1998-ongoing |
| The
Tibetan Book of the Dead: Literature on Prayer,
Ritual, and Meditation from the Religious Traditions
of Tibet, India, and Nepal |
November 2, 1997 - March 14,
1998 |
|
Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil
War |
August 2 - October 15, 1997
|
| Landmarks
of American Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue
Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley |
April 27 through July 14, 1997 |
| The
Most of Special Collections |
January 20 through April 7,
1997 |
| Muse
and Confidante: the Angelica Schuyler Church
Archive |
September through December,
1996 |
| A
Buyer's Market: A Selection of Recent Acquistions
in Special Collections |
June through August, 1996 |
Books
Go To War: The Armed Services Editions in World
War II
(A Book Arts Press exhibition in the Dome
Room of the Rotunda) |
April 20, 1996-September
10, 1996 |
| A
Frost Bouquet: Robert Frost, His Family, and
the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American
Literature |
March 1, 1996-June 1, 1996 |
| Recent
Acquisitions in African-American History and
Literature |
February 7, 1996-February 29,
1996 |
| "Arise
and Build!" A Centennial Commemoration of the
1895 Rotunda Fire |
October 6, 1995-February 6,
1996 |
| Exploring
the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps
from Columbus to Lewis and Clark |
July 10, 1995-September 26,
1995 |
| To
Seek the Peace of the City: Jewish Life in Charlottesville |
From a 1994 exhibit at the Albemarle
County Historical Society, sponsored by
Hillel
Jewish Center, UVa and Congregation
Beth Israel |
