Category: events

• Special Exhibit Hours for UW-Madison Science Expeditions 2019

  Posted on Apr 4th

  We’re delighted to be one of the “destinations for exploration” in this year’s UW-Madison Science Expeditions, the annual campus-wide open house that […]

• Open House & Lecture: Aldo Leopold & the Making of A Sand County Almanac

  Posted on Mar 19th

  Please join us for ALDO LEOPOLD & THE MAKING OF A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC OPEN HOUSE & LECTURE SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2019 SPECIAL […]

• Mandrake in Dodoens’ New Herbal (1578)

  Posted on Oct 12th

  In honor of this weekend’s symposium “On Human Nature: Machiavelli’s Mandrake at 500,” we offer a look at the account and depiction of the […]

• Stains in Special Collections

  Posted on Dec 12th

  The presentation about the Library of Stains project on December 13 prompts us to look at different sorts of stains in Special Collections […]

• Gallery Talk for Iceland Exhibit, Oct. 30, 3 p.m.

  Posted on Oct 25th

  We hope you will join us on Monday, October 30, at 3 PM in Special Collections for an informal gallery talk about our exhibit “Iceland.” […]

• Artist’s and Curator’s Talks on Natural History Exhibits

  Posted on Apr 30th

  Please join us as Martha Glowacki reprises her lecture about the Chazen Museum exhibition “Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections” and […]

• Chazen Exhibition Opens March 3

  Posted on Mar 2nd

  Thanks for the shout-out in the Wisconsin State Journal from artist Martha Glowacki, whose exhibition “Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections” at […]

• A Closer Look

  Posted on Feb 10th

  We invite you to take a closer look at our new exhibit Natural History :: Natural Philosophy, on display in Special Collections […]

• Second, Third, and Fourth Folios of Shakespeare’s Plays

  Posted on Nov 2nd

  Once you’ve seen the First Folio exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art (opening on November 3 as part of Shakespeare in […]

• Event & Book Signing on March 17 Honoring New Book by John Tedeschi

  Posted on Mar 15th

  We hope you will able to attend the event and book signing this Thursday, March 17, for Italian Jews Under Fascism, 1938-1945: A Personal and […]

• As Viewed from a Book Truck: Holding History

  Posted on Nov 10th

  We hosted a scaled-down version of the Holding History series in Special Collections during Anthony Grafton’s recent visit to Madison. Grafton, Henry Putnam University […]

• “Paper as the Place of Discovery” — A Symposium on October 8-9

  Posted on Oct 8th

  We call your attention to a campus symposium – on October 8-9, 2015 – on the intriguing theme of “paper as a […]