Past Exhibits

2020

• UCLA 100 by 100 - March 2020

2019

• Medieval Mastery: Manuscripts from the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection - January 2019
• Jackie Robinson and UCLA - January 2019
• "Not a Bit Sensational but Simple and True": Little Women - January - March 2019 
• 500 Years of an International Language: Ladino documents from Special Collections - February 2019
• Formation: Guild of Book Workers Traveling Exhibition - April 2019
• Aldus: His Life and Influence - August - October 2019
• Campus in Crisis: The Cold War Conflict over Academic Freedom at UCLA - October - December 2019
• Drop Dead Gorgeous: Fine Bindings for La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation - October - December 2019

2018

• Engaged Critic, Radical Art: Yoshida Yoshie in Art and Performance - February 2018
• Engaged in the World and Involved in the Community - February - April 2018
• "My Reign Is Not Yet Over": Frankenstein's Bicentenary - May 2018
• Bridging the Pacific for 70 Years: The Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library at UCLA - September 2018

2017

• American Concentration Camp - January - March 2017
• Russian Revolution Satirical Journal - April 2017
• Geo P Johnson Exhibition - May 2017
• Golden Celebration of Golden Books - October - December 2017
• Igniting Creative Thinking: The Doreen Nelson Method of Design-Based Learning - October - December 2017

2016

• Books of Hours: Picture Galleries of the Middle Ages, Best Sellers of the Renaissance, Documents of Social History, Religious Practice, and Book Publishing - January 2016
• ABCs of the CBC: Alphabet Books in the Children’s Book Collection - February - April 2016
• Crowd-Sourcing the Graphic Covers of Victorian Crowd-Pleasers - February - April 2016
• Ruth Patricia Shellhorn - April 2016
• Arthur Ashe: Athlete, Activist, Bruin - April - June 2016
• Our National Mammal: The Bison - May 2016
• Bonnie Cashin Lecture Series - May 2016
• The Flow of Water Through Leonardo's Notebooks - May - July 2016 
• Art of Fashion and Costume Design - July - September 2016
• Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante - August 2016
• From Television City in Hollywood... Playhouse 90 - September 2016
• Spirit at UCLA - September 2016
• Setting the Record Straight: Jack and Aiko Herzig Papers - October 2016

2015

• Richard Neutra in World War I: Sketches and Watercolors - May - July 2015
• Am I Here? Place, Identity, and the Armenian Genocide (Flash exhibit) - April 2015
• John & Marilyn Neuhart: An Archive of Mid-Century Graphic Design - August 2014 - January 2015

2014

• The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 --- A Personal Narrative of Heartbreaking Loss, November 6-30, 2014
• This Just In: Recently Acquired Gifts and Purchases, August-September 2014 - materials were acquired from a Gatherin’ (West Sand Lake, NY), Deborah Coltham Rare Books (Sevenoaks, UK), Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA), and eBay
• In the News: Whooping Cough, August-September 2014
• Illuminated Manuscripts in the UCLA Library Special Collections, April - June 2014
• The UCLA Library Baby Record Books Collection, February - April 2014
• "Alphabet of Extinct Mammals" exhibit, March - April 2014
• Aldous Huxley and the Visionary Experience, 26 September 2013 – 1 January 2014 (extended to mid-February 2014)

2013

• Becoming Beat and Post-Beat in L.A.: Strange Facts and Fictions about the Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, April 2013
• Labs on the Go: Scientific Tools for Collecting Empire, 1600 – Present, September-August 2013

2012

• Rediscovering Jim Tully: Golden Age Hollywood's Hard-Boiled Writer, October 2012

2011

February - September 2011

• John Fante: A Life in the Works
  Online exhibit
  See the UCLA Library Special Collections blog to view photographs and video of the Bonnie Cashin lecture presented by Fante's biographer, Stephen Cooper.

2010

• A Letter from the Renaissance
  The Double Soul
  Ariel Soulé/Simon Toparovsky
  a contemporary art installation for UCLA Library Special Collections, August - December 2010

   

• Archives Alive: Student Discoveries in the Center for Primary Research and Training, April - July 2010

2009

• Rio de Janeiro: Two Centuries of Urban Change (1808-2008), January - June 2009

2008

• Portrait of a Jewish Artist: R.B. Kitaj in Text and Image, January - April 2008. Held in conjunction with the Skirball Cultural Center's R.B. Kitaj: Passion and Memory.
• From Aldus to Aldous: Highlights from the Department of Special Collections, April - December 2008

2007

• The Orsini: A Roman Baronial Family in Context, January - March 2007
• Queen of the Great Good Place: Gertrude Stein and her Parisian Circle, April- June 2007
• From 12/7 to 9/11: Lessons from the Japanese American Internment, July - September 2007
• Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse, October 1-7 2007
• Transformations: The Persistence of Aldus Manutius, October - December 2007

2006

• Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, December 2005 - April 2006
• Six Hundred Years of Near Eastern Manuscripts, April - May 2006
• Carey McWilliams: California's Advocate of Creative Dissent, June - September 2006
• Isadora: From California to the World, October - December 2006

2005

• Wilder Shores: Lady Travelers of the 18th and 19th Centuries, January-May 2005
• The Sleepy Lagoon Case: Constitutional Rights and the Struggle for Democracy, May-September 2005
• One Person's Truth: The Life and Work of Paul Monette (1945-1995), October-November 2005

2004

• Chic is where you find it: Selections from the Bonnie Cashin Collection of Theater, Film, and Fashion Design, January-May 2004
• A Centenary Celebration of Ralph J. Bunche, June-September 2004
• Make Beauty: Costumes by Dorothy Jeakins, September-December 2004

2003

• Dark and Light: Arthur Wesley Dow and His Influence, January-March 2003
• How Shall a Generation Know its Story: The Edgar Bowers Conference and Exhibition, April-June 2003
• Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse, September - December 2003

2002

• John D. Weaver: Celebrating 90 Years, February - March 2002
• The Southern High Latitudes in Southern California: Antarctica at UCLA.
  An exhibition to celebrate the publication of Antarctica, 1772-1922: Freestanding Publications Through 1999 by Michael H. Rosove, M.D., April 2002
• The Susan Sontag Archive at the UCLA Library, May 2002
• In the Powell Library Rotunda: A Tribute to Lawrence Clark Powell, June 2002
• SOCALled Books: Diversity in Artists' Books from Southern California, July - September 2002
• Borges: The Time Machine, October - November 2002
• Season's Greetings: A selection of holiday items from the Charles E. Young Library Department of Special Collections, December 2002
• John J. Bonica, 1917-1994 - Virtual Archives, 2002. Dr. John J. Bonica was a pioneer in the field of pain research. He initiated an interdisciplinary approach to pain management as early as 1950 and was primarily responsible for the foundation of the International Association for the Study of Pain and authorship of the premier textbook on the subject, The Management of Pain. He was both a clinical and a teaching anesthesiologist in the U. S. Army, at Tacoma General Hospital in Washington state, and at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he founded the world's first multidisciplinary pain control clinic. In addition, Dr. Bonica was a sought-after speaker, visiting professor, and author (not to mention former light-heavyweight wrestling champion of the world).

2001

• Recent Acquisitions in the Department of Special Collections: Modern Fine Printing and Graphic Arts: Artists’ Books by Julie Chen and Mary Heebner, September 2001
• Aldus Manutius at UCLA : An Exhibition in Honor of the Publication of The Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection, October 2001
• Recent Acquisitions in the Department of Special Collections: Popular Literature and Printed Materials: Illustrated books by Barbara Hodgson, November 2001
• Ricky Jay and the Magic of Books, December 2001 - January 2002

2000

• A Curious Variety of Mazes and Meanders: The Voyages of Captain James Cook in the Global Eighteenth Century, November 1999 - March 2000
• The Michael Sadleir Collection of 19th Century Fiction, January-March 2000
• Not Tantamount to Rarity: Fifty Years of Collecting, An exhibit celebrating a half-century of Special Collections at the UCLA Library, April - June 2000
• Smallpox: A Brief History of Inoculation, Vaccination, and Eradication, 2000. An exhibition in honor of the 200th anniversary of the discovery of vaccination against smallpox by William Jenner, and the 20th anniversary of the eradication of the disease.

1999

• Snarks, Jabberwocks, Crocodiles, and Mice Tails: Lewis Carroll, the Poet and the Parodist, Illuminated, November 1998 - January 1999
• IASP Online Archives, 1999. Featuring excerpts from Pain: A Universal Problem and an International Field, an exhibition for the 9th World Congress on Pain (Vienna, 1999) to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).

1998

• Here to Go: William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in The Kurtzman Collection in the UCLA Department of Special Collections, February 1998. Visit the online version of William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg: a select bibliography of works in the UCLA University Library, published by the UCLA University Library in 1998 as an outgrowth of the Here to Go exhibition.
• They Tell Us More Than The Weather: Eighteenth-Century American Almanacs, July - October 1998
• The Relief of Pain and Suffering, 1998. The exhibit was prepared in conjunction with the Symposium: Pain and Suffering in History–Narrative Science, Medicine, and Culture, which took place on March 13-14, 1998. The exhibit focuses on the history of the alleviation of pain and the history of pain research and modern pain treatment. The symposium and the exhibit mark the official dedication of the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

1997

• Picturing Childhood: Illustrated children's books from University of California collections, 1550-1990, April - June 1997
• Some Favorite Things: The Rare Books Librarian surveys additions to Special Collections, 1983-1997, December 1997 - January 1998