Past Exhibits
Early Studies in Parapsychology at Duke
Online exhibit available NOW!
August 27, 2020
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
Define American x Representing Migration Humanities Lab: Investigating contemporary issues of migration in the US
February 28, 2020 – May 1, 2020
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
"Everyone Seems Smarter Than Me”: Duke students and Beliefs About Intelligence
February 7, 2020 – March 3, 2020
Student Wall
Women’s Medicine: Medicine by and for Women in Western History
December 11, 2019 – February 7, 2020
Student Wall
Slow Burn
A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania, Photographs by Renée Jacobs
November 2, 2019 – March 1, 2020
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Stories We Sell: Crafting Public Persona from Walt Whitman to Billie Eilish
November 1, 2019 – February 28, 2020
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Vaccination
300 Years of Debate
October 29, 2019 – August 9, 2020
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
Photo-Texts
A Survey of the Rubenstein Library’s Photobook Collection
July 3, 2019 – December 20, 2019
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Pirating Texts
Tracking the Myths of Crusoe From Slave Trade Propaganda to Children’s Animation
June 18, 2019 – October 6, 2019
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
"Positive Care and Legitimate Remedy"
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Company
June 18, 2019 – October 6, 2019
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Photographs by Roy DeCarava. Text by Langston Hughes.
June 8, 2019 – October 27, 2019
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Service at Duke
March 1, 2019 – November 1, 2019
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Duke Partnership for Service
Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
February 28, 2019 – June 15, 2019
Mary Duke Biddle Room, Sperling Family Exhibit Cases, Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery and The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
To Survive on this Shore
Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre
February 23, 2019 – June 2, 2019
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Center for Documentary Studies & The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture
Black Students Matter: Taking Over Allen in '69
February 8, 2019 – August 5, 2019
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
University Archives
Documenting Daddy's Days At Duke (Part 1)
February 1, 2019 – March 1, 2019
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
In Transit: Arts and Migration around Europe
The Catalan Atlas
January 7, 2019 – February 16, 2019
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
Propitious Wind and Rain
Photographs from Kunshan by Tom Rankin
November 2, 2018 – February 17, 2019
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Duke Kunshan University: From the Ground Up
October 25, 2018 – February 3, 2019
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Translation and transmission an Intellectual Pursuit in the Middle Ages:
Selections from the History of Medicine Collection
October 16, 2018 – February 16, 2019
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
Duke Engage Student Photography Contest 2018
October 1, 2018 – February 1, 2019
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
The Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education (PAGE)
Historic Schools
October 1, 2018 – November 1, 2018
Student Wall
Views of the Great War
Highlights from the Duke University Libraries
August 15, 2018 – February 16, 2019
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Anything and All Things of Interest to Women
The Sarah Westphal Collection
July 24, 2018 – February 16, 2019
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
What You Can Do Yourself: Home Health Guides in the History of Medicine
July 24, 2018 – October 13, 2018
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
Blomquist: The Professor, the Garden, and the Legacy
50 years of native plant gardening in Sarah P. Duke Gardens
June 22, 2018 – October 21, 2018
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Women and Medicine in Western History
Sources from the Rubenstein LIbrary
May 1, 2018 – October 1, 2018
Student Wall
200 Years of Frankenstein: Literature as a Lens for Science and Society
April 1, 2018 – May 1, 2018
Student Wall
The Change of Life: Menopause and Our Changing Perspectives
March 20, 2018 – July 14, 2018
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
The Activist Archive
SNCC Collections in the Rubenstein Library
February 21, 2018 – June 17, 2018
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Manifest
Photographs by Wendel White
February 17, 2018 – June 3, 2018
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Test of Faith
signs, Serpents, Salvation
November 11, 2017 – February 11, 2018
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Center for Documentary Studies
Yasak/Banned
Political Cartoons from Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey
November 1, 2017 – March 12, 2018
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Humans of Paris
Picturing Social Life in the Nineteenth Century
October 18, 2017 – February 18, 2018
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
I Sing the Body Electric
Walt Whitman and the Body
July 26, 2017 – October 28, 2017
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Dream of a House
The Passions & Preoccupations of Reynolds Price
July 14, 2017 – November 5, 2017
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Reynolds Price
A Life of Arts & Letters
July 14, 2017 – October 30, 2017
Sperling Family Exhibit Cases
Royal India and The British
The Photography of Samuel Bourne & Raja Lala Deen Dayal
April 4, 2017 – July 22, 2017
Mary Duke Biddle Room
IAS
NeuroDIVERSITY and Inclusion
An exhibition of creative activism projects by Duke students
April 1, 2017 – May 1, 2017
Student Wall
Duke Disability Alliance
A Sound Mind in a Sound Body
Health Advice for Scholars and Students
March 28, 2017 – July 14, 2017
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
There’s Content
Five Years of the Masters of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts
March 3, 2017 – June 20, 2017
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Capturing the Moment
Centuries of the Passover Haggadah
February 23, 2017 – June 11, 2017
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
To Market, To Market!
Urban Street Food Culture Around the Globe
February 7, 2017 – March 30, 2017
Student Wall
Maria de Bruyn Papers
World AIDS Day exhibit
November 26, 2016 – March 10, 2017
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
“Agencies Prefer Men!”
The Women of Madison Avenue
November 10, 2016 – March 10, 2017
Hartman Center
50 Years of Lemurs at Duke
October 20, 2016 – February 19, 2017
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
A Delicate Balance
Understanding the Four Humors
August 18, 2016 – November 23, 2016
The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
The Common Ground We Meet Upon
Music Collections in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
August 1, 2016 – November 1, 2016
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Boccaccio and the Genealogy of Stories
July 20, 2016 – October 16, 2016
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
The Tomb in the Corner of the Garden
Selections from the Picture File
July 1, 2016 – October 20, 2016
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Worth the Paper It’s Printed On
The Economists’ Papers Archive
June 1, 2016 – August 1, 2016
Sperling Family Exhibit Cases
Highlights from the Rubenstein Library
May 25, 2016 – August 9, 2020
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
Time Reopened
The Original Washington Duke Hotel's Time Capsule
April 11, 2016 – August 1, 2016
Sperling Family Exhibit Cases
University Archives
Faith in Action
In the Footsteps of Abraham Joshua Heschel
March 18, 2016 – July 29, 2016
Mary Duke Biddle Room
An Iconic Identity
Stories and Voices of Duke University Chapel
March 11, 2016 – June 19, 2016
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Duke University Chapel
Where We Live
A North Carolina Portrait
March 5, 2016 – June 26, 2016
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Heralding the Way to a New World
Exploring Women in Science and Medicine Through the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
January 19, 2016 – May 23, 2016
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
Malignant Fever
Benjamin Rush and the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia
January 4, 2016 – March 11, 2016
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Intimate Gestures
Handmade Books by William Gedney
November 12, 2015 – March 1, 2016
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Aunties
The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila
November 7, 2015 – February 28, 2016
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
American Beginnings, featuring the Bay Psalm Book
September 30, 2015 – November 30, 2015
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
Dreamers and Dissenters
Selections from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
September 30, 2015 – December 13, 2015
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Languages of Anatomy
From Vesalius to the Digital Age
August 24, 2015 – November 8, 2015
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Sidney D. Gamble in China, 1908-1932
Photographs from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
August 24, 2015 – November 1, 2015
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
What I Be Project at Duke
June 24, 2015
Student Wall
Duke Blue Devils United and Duke Student Government
Duke Groups
Student Organizations at Duke University from 1846 to the present
April 1, 2015 – September 30, 2015
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Me Too Monologues
February 1, 2015 – February 28, 2015
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Me Too Monologues student group
Duke Dance Marathon
February 1, 2015 – February 28, 2015
Student Wall
Duke Dance Marathon student group
36th Annual Duke Employee Art Show
August 29, 2014 – September 30, 2014
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Duke Hospital Arts & Health
Queering Duke History
August 14, 2014 – December 14, 2014
Perkins Gallery
Special Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity
Wiser-Women's Institute of Secondary Education
March 1, 2014 – May 1, 2014
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
WISER Duke
Cheap Thrills
The Highs and Lows of Paris's Cabaret Culture, 1880-1939
February 1, 2014 – May 1, 2014
Perkins Gallery
Art, Art History and Visual Studies Department
Nelson Mandela Photographic Exhibit
January 6, 2014 – February 15, 2014
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Loaned by Pop Inernational Galleries
Between the Lines
Comical Interpretations of the Nineteenth Century
November 1, 2013 – February 1, 2014
Student Wall
Writing 101
Soul & Service
The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
October 24, 2013 – December 20, 2013
Travelling exhibit
Outrageous Ambitions
How a One-Room Schoolhouse Became a Research University
October 14, 2013 – February 16, 2014
Perkins Gallery
University Archives
Recording the Anthropocene
July 16, 2013 – November 13, 2013
Perkins Gallery
Interdisciplinary faculty and students
Botanical Treasures from Duke's Hidden Library
April 10, 2013 – July 14, 2013
Perkins Gallery
Duke University Herbarium
Street Exposure
The Photographs of Ronald Reis
March 13, 2013 – May 17, 2013
Rubenstein Hallway Gallery
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
POST THIS UP!
March 5, 2013 – May 17, 2013
Rare Bookroom Hallway Cases
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Mapping the City
A Stranger's Guide
December 15, 2012 – March 18, 2013
Perkins Gallery
Borderworks Humanities Lab
A Mockery of Justice
Caricature and the Dreyfus Affair
December 12, 2012 – March 9, 2013
Rubenstein Hallway Gallery
Duke University Center for Jewish Studies
The Road to Desegregation at Duke
December 5, 2012 – March 3, 2013
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
University Archives
Documenting the Politics of Food
Photographs from the Rubenstein Library Collections
August 10, 2012 – December 10, 2012
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Archive of Documentary Arts, SAF, CDS
The Art of SAF
How Student Action with Farmworkers Use the Arts in Education and Advocacy
August 9, 2012 – December 9, 2012
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
SAF
SAF: Student Action With Farmworkers
20 Years of Growing Farmworker Activists
August 9, 2012 – December 9, 2012
Perkins Gallery
SAF, CDS
Keep All You Wish
The Photographs of Hugh Mangum
May 30, 2012 – November 20, 2012
Center for Documentary Studies, Lyndhurst Gallery
Archive of Documentary Arts, and Center for Documentary Studies
Randolph Bezzant Holmes Photographs, 1910-1919
Northern India and the North-West Frontier Province
May 7, 2012 – August 6, 2012
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rubenstein Library
What Does Your Doctor Know?
Exploring the History of Physician Education from Early Greek Theory to the Practice of Duke Medicine
April 18, 2012 – July 29, 2012
Perkins Gallery
History of medicine, Rubenstein Library
From Blackface to Blaxploitation
Representations of African Americans in Film
April 4, 2012 – July 29, 2012
Rare Book Room hallway cases
Rubenstein Library
Charles Dickens
200 Years of Commerce and Controversy
February 1, 2012 – April 1, 2012
Rare Book Room Cases
Rubenstein Library
Nation on the Move - The Puerto Rican Diaspora
Photographs by Frank Espada, 1963-1990
January 16, 2012 – April 29, 2012
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rubenstein Library
I Recall the Experience Sweet and Sad
Memories of the Civil War
January 4, 2012 – April 15, 2012
Perkins Gallery
Rubenstein Library
Looking In, Looking Out
Writing for the Public Eye
November 19, 2011 – January 6, 2012
Perkins Gallery
Thompson Writing Program
From Campus to Cockpit
Duke During World War II
October 26, 2011 – January 30, 2012
Rare Book Room Cases
University Archives
Iraq | Perspectives
Photographs by Benjamin Lowy
October 24, 2011 – December 11, 2011
Rubenstein Gallery
Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography & Rubenstein Library
Instruments of Torture
September 11, 2011 – March 1, 2012
Conservation Gallery
Conservation Department
Language, Power, Stories, Words
an Exhibit from the Dorothy Allison Papers
August 19, 2011 – October 25, 2011
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
Bingham Center
The Life of Memorials
Manifestations of Memory at the Intersection of Public and Private
July 21, 2011 – October 16, 2011
Perkins Gallery
Team Kenan
Future Fantasteek!
Zines and Sketchbooks by Jackie Batey
June 20, 2011 – October 7, 2011
Lilly Library Space
Bingham Center
Flesh and Metal, Bodies and Buildings
Works from Jonathan Hyman’s Archive of 9/11 Vernacular Memorials
May 9, 2011 – October 16, 2011
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Look Boys and Girls!
Advertising to Children in the 20th Century
May 5, 2011 – August 7, 2011
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing
Student Mural
Perkins Library (2010-2011)
May 1, 2011 – May 1, 2013
"Old Perk" (Perkins Library, 2nd floor)
Duke University Union Visual Arts Committee, Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts
Animated Anatomies
The Human Body in Anatomical Texts from the 16th to 21st Centuries
April 7, 2011 – July 17, 2011
Perkins Gallery
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Departments of Romance Studies and History, the Center for European Studies, Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives, Duke University Libraries
Changing the Face of Medicine
February 14, 2011 – March 27, 2011
Medical Center Library and Archives Exhibits
History of Medicine and Duke Medical Center Archives
10 Projects
Analog to Digital
February 1, 2011 – March 15, 2011
Conservation Gallery
Digital Productions Center
Stefan Hoffmann
Visiting Artist Feb 2011
February 1, 2011 – May 1, 2013
"Old Perk" (Perkins Library, 2nd floor)
Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Brave deeds are proudly spoken of
African American Military Service
February 1, 2011 – May 1, 2011
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
RBMSCL
Philanthropist, Environmentalist, Collector
Doris Duke and Her Estates
January 13, 2011 – April 3, 2011
Perkins Gallery
Doris Duke Archivist, RBMSCL
On the Migrant Trail
Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Border
December 1, 2010 – January 1, 2011
Perkins Student Wall
Duke Engage
Photographs by Amy Cotter
November 3, 2010 – December 1, 2010
Student Wall
Center for Documentary Studies
Mastering Craft
Interpreting Historic Bookbindings
October 13, 2010 – January 1, 2011
Conservation Gallery
Conservation
To Keep the Future Worthy of the Past
October 13, 2010 – January 30, 2011
Rubenstein Gallery
University Archives
Book + Art
Artists' books from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
October 12, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Perkins Gallery
Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Deena Stryker
Photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964
August 20, 2010 – December 12, 2010
Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library