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collage of 12 colored images of ancient and colonial architecture of Mexico

Launch the new academic year with visits to library exhibits around campus

September 1, 2023
New exhibits are now on view at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and at the Hanke Exhibition Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library.
ng rod with a red bag as bait that reads "3 million" Two submerged whales swim toward the boat. A drawing of a seacoast is at far right and a masted ship is at far left.

This summer, Senior Exhibit Fellow AJ Laird ’24 is tracking whaling vessels into the archive

July 8, 2023
AJ Laird ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 Senior Exhibit Fellowship, which offers the selected student an opportunity to create and curate an exhibit based on the topic of the senior essay.

Chucho Martinez Padres ’23 opens senior fellowship exhibit “The Study of Things”

April 1, 2023
The 2023 Senior Fellowship Exhibit, curated by Chucho Martínez Padres ’23, is now on view in Sterling Memorial Library through Oct. 8.
Collage of black and white photos of twelve women, talking, posing, laughing

Meet the women of Yale: Eleven online exhibits document their impressive legacy

March 10, 2023
Wide-ranging online exhibits document the many contributions that the women of Yale have made to the university and the world.
Woman with long dark hair wearing dark rimmed glasses speaks before microphone.

Photo gallery: Hanke Gallery opens new exhibition "Empire and Resistance"

February 28, 2023
Visitors gathered for the opening of the new Hanke Gallery’s third exhibition, Empire and Resistance: Transisthmian Views of Central America .
Woman with curly dark hair and wire-rimmed glasses poses alongside windows, with hallway and arched entrance behind her. The photo is black and white. She wears a striped turtleneck and plaid coat.

Student curator Nancy Escalante: Finding community in the archives

February 16, 2023
Nancy Escalante—PhD student in American Studies, whose exhibit Empire and Resistance is in the Hanke Gallery—found her passion and a path to her life’s work in the archives.
Close-up view of a glass display glass that shows a small yellowed horizontal scroll with Japanese characters in black ink. The scroll is in a white frame. Sitting behind the frame on a raised surface is a miniature wooden pagoda and a photograph showing the underside of the pagoda and Japanese characters there that spell the pagoda maker's name

Beinecke Library adds earliest known printed text to permanent exhibit

January 25, 2023
A woodblock print of Buddhist prayers—dating from the eighth century—now sits alongside the fifteenth-century Gutenberg Bible, the first book-length work printed with movable time, in the Beinecke Library’s mezzanine exhibit.