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Exhibitions

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royal blue background with abstract digital image at center in pink, fuschia, light blue, and red
September 6, 2024
Be sure to catch these 7 library exhibits across campus, featuring a 1986 video game, WWII oral histories, 18th-century whaling logbooks, and more.
Three black video monitors show closeups of three women . The monitors are on narrow stands set against a surface of marbled granite divided into a grid by thin concrete structures
July 25, 2024
“In the First Person: The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocust Testimonies,” on view through Jan. 28, 2025, is the first large-scale exhibition of videotaped interviews with Holocaust witnesses and survivors.
1946 colored illustration with room full of people and man huddled in distress at center. A man stands in front of table full of glass jars. A white banner with a red cross hangs in background.
June 5, 2024
In this exhibit, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library tells the story of the shifting cultural attitudes and scientific approaches to mental health.
Elaborate frame with columns of Korean script in gold ink on dark blue ground and lotus leaf mandala at
May 16, 2024
“Copying Sacred Texts: A Spiritual Practice” is on view in Hanke Exhibition Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library through Aug. 11.
Young woman with short curly brown hair wearing pink sweater and white shirt stands with hand on hip next to display with photo of Elsa Wasserman and copies of documents
April 18, 2024
Elga Ruth Wasserman, JD ’76, was a passionate advocate for the first classes of women enrolled in Yale College in the 1960’s and ’70s. Her portrait was installed in Bass Library last year.
19th century color print of boat full of men being tossed by waves with whale with horns and open mouth alongside and floating barrel in waters
April 6, 2024
Curated by AJ Laird, the exhibition features 19th- and 20th-century mariners’ logbooks, which documented every aspect of sea voyages as they unfolded and reveal the complex world of the whaling industry.
man in white tunic with glasses bends over blue paper drawing with bamboo pen
March 12, 2024
Master Kyeongho Kim demonstrated his exacting methods—a meditative practice—for an audience in Sterling Memorial Library.