Below is a list of exhibitions held at the Newberry from 1995 to 2011. Please contact the Public Programs office at programs@newberry.org for information about Newberry exhibitions before 1995.
Past Exhibitions
This exhibition, curated by Dr. Scott Stevens, Director of the McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, features a wide variety of historically and culturally significant items from the Newberry’s world-renowned collection.
This exhibition highlights the ways in which architectural books were developed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to display the military and political power of European rulers and states.
See also the online component of Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books: French Renaissance Gems of the Newberry.
See also the online component of French Canadians in the Midwest.
See also the online component of Approaching the Mexican Revolution: Books, Maps, Documents or our Spanish-language version,
See also the online component of “Everywhere West”: Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
A Library of Congress traveling exhibition
See also the online component of Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis.
A McCormick Foundation exhibition
An exhibition by Pamela Paulsrud and the late Marilyn Sward
A McKinley Park Elementary School Project
A traveling exhibition
See also the online component of The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico.
See also the online component of Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country.
See also the online component of Outspoken: Chicago’s Free Speech Tradition.
A traveling exhibition from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.
See also the online component of Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend.