On Display: October 21 - November 30, 2016
Location: Read & Relax
The Cabell Family Papers in Swem’s Special Collections Research Center include correspondence, publications, genealogical records, literary manuscripts, accounts and land transactions, dating from…
On Display: August 29 - November 2, 2016
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
This year, William & Mary’s Earl Gregg Swem Library marks its 50th birthday. Taken from the University Archives Photograph Collection, the images in this exhibit show the planning, construction, and…
On Display: November 3, 2015 - October 31, 2016
Location: Bright Gallery, 2nd Floor Rotunda
This exhibit features publications and research from current faculty members in the English Department.
On Display: October 3 - 31, 2016
Location: Read & Relax
This exhibit is a photographic glimpse into the archaeology of William & Mary over the last 70 years.
On Display: December 17, 2015 - June 30, 2016
Location: Special Collections Lobby
In the late seventeenth century, colleges usually built their library collections from donations, not college funds. The main donor for William & Mary’s first library was Francis Nicholson, the royal…
On Display: June 15, 2015 - June 12, 2016
Location: Kaplan Arena
Tribe Pride: William & Mary Athletics Display uses photographs, artifacts, and publications housed in the University Archives to showcase history of intercollegiate sports at William & Mary.
On Display: June 10, 2015 - June 12, 2016
Location: 3rd Floor Rotunda Gallery
Featuring documents, photographs, and selected ceramic works from the Joseph Palin Thorley Papers in Swem Library’s Special Collections Research Center, this exhibit provides unique insights into the…
On Display: April 1 - 28, 2016
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
The William & Mary Mattachine LGBTIQ Research Project: Documenting the LGBTIQ Past in Virginia aims to better understand, chronicle, and preserve the history of LGBTIQ people in Virginia.
On Display: July 22, 2015 - March 31, 2016
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
Over the course of a fifty-year career, Rev. Harris has served his community of Hopewell, Virginia, not only as a civil rights activist, but also as political official and religious leader.
On Display: October 22, 2015 - March 31, 2016
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
This exhibit features a selection of the varied materials found in Swem Library's Special Collections, arranged from A to Z.
On Display: March 1 - 28, 2016
Location: Media Wall Area Near Main Entrance
The artwork displayed in this exhibit commemorates the 40th Reunion of William & Mary's Class of 1975 and the culmination of the Staying Connected initiative.
On Display: December 4, 2015 - January 15, 2016
Location: Swem Lobby Exhibit Case
Continuing our annual tradition, this year’s exhibit showcases the variety of form that has proliferated since the poem’s publication more than 180 years ago.
On Display: November 4 - December 15, 2015
Location: Media Wall Area Near Main Entrance
Contemporary artists respond to Upton Sinclair's classic text The Jungle, which portrays the wretched conditions for works and animals in the Chicago meat-packing industry of the early 20th century.
On Display: February 4 - December 6, 2015
Location: Special Collections Lobby
This exhibit explores Virginia's 35 years of hip-hop history through oral histories, curated playlists, artifacts, posters, and other archival materials in the William & Mary Hip Hop Collection.
On Display: April 14 - November 30, 2015
Location: Read & Relax
Slavery at William & Mary is a chapter that until recently had often been left out of written histories. From its founding in 1693 to the outbreak of the Civil War, the college owned, hired out, and…
On Display: October 19 - 29, 2015
Location: Media Wall Area Near Main Entrance
Through its 56-year history, the VIMS collection has grown from an uncatalogued teaching collection to one of the largest repositories for freshwater, Chesapeake Bay, and coastal fishes in Virginia.
On Display: September 25 - October 15, 2015
Location: Media Wall Area Near Main Entrance
Senior art students in Professor Brian Kreydatus's ART 460 Senior Exhibition course each selected one of their sketches from the summer sketchbook project to be featured in an exhibit in Swem Library.
On Display: May 21 - October 6, 2015
Location: Botetourt Gallery
The Menokin Foundation hopes to transform the historic mansion of Francis Lightfoot Lee and 500-acre classroom into an educational and environmental experience like no other. You are invited to step…
On Display: December 1, 2014 - September 30, 2015
Location: Bright Gallery, 2nd Floor Rotunda
Scholarship On Display is a rotating exhibit series showcasing faculty work from academic departments at William & Mary. This installment features publications and research from current faculty…
On Display: February 17 - May 17, 2015
Location: Swem Lobby
During Louis H. Draper's photography career, he amassed nearly 1,000 prints and negatives of street photography in Harlem, abstract images, portraits, and photographs of trips to Senegal and the…