Category: exhibits

  • Sit Down With a Book Printed in 1623

    Posted on Nov 22nd

    Have you seen the First Folio on display at the Chazen Museum of Art or the exhibit on “The Globe/Global in Shakespeare’s Time” […]

  • 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 […]

  • More of Triangles & Squares: From the Black Mesa Press

    Posted on Mar 27th

    Though not included in our current exhibit “Shapes in Books: Triangles, Squares, Circles,” The limits by Anita Barrows, as published by Black […]

  • New Exhibit on Triangles, Squares, and Circles

    Posted on Dec 5th

    Please visit Special Collections for our latest exhibit, “Shapes in Books: Triangles, Circles, Squares.” It features, not surprisingly, rare books on geometry, […]

  • Bittern Sightings

    Posted on Nov 4th

    Inspired by Carrie Roy’s piece entitled “Bittern 70,” part of an art installation currently on view in the first floor lobby of […]

  • Lunar Eclipses as Viewed from Special Collections

    Posted on Sep 27th

    Tonight’s lunar eclipse, which coincides with what is known as a harvest moon, prompts us to offer several examples of depictions of lunar eclipses […]

  • Yeats’ “Green Helmet”

    Posted on Sep 12th

    The current exhibit in Special Collections, entitled “Green Green — It’s Green They Say,” has heightened our awareness of both references to the color green […]

  • Green Green — It’s Green, They Say

    Posted on Aug 26th

    In celebration of the lush landscapes of summer, and with a nod to the first track of the The New Christy Minstrel’s […]

  • Maps!

    Posted on May 13th

    In honor of this week’s National Geographic Bee, we invite you to visit the current exhibit in Special Collections — “Mapmaking: Sources […]

  • Snow Supplement

    Posted on Dec 23rd

    Since we in Madison are not destined to have much if any snow this week, enjoying instead temperatures in the upper 30s […]

  • In Honor of “Our Funny University”

    Posted on Sep 19th

    In honor of today’s event, “Our Funny University,” we have installed a modest exhibit on the first floor of Memorial Library entitled […]

  • A Matter of Scale: The Flamingo in Audubon’s Birds of America

    Posted on Jul 28th

    On display through August 1 (this Friday!) in our exhibit “Books of Nature” is the magnificent illustration of the American flamingo in […]