Journeys
August 7th, 2009
Journeys: Treasures of The Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
Through January 3, 2010
A special exhibition, “Journeys: Treasures of The Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections,” will be on display through January 3, 2010 to help celebrate the reopening of the newly-renovated Thompson Memorial Library. The exhibition is a collaboration between all ten of the Special Collections at Ohio State. It will be free and open to the public.
More than 100 of the Libraries’ most interesting, rare and unique treasures will be on display, from letters to first editions of literature; set designs to scrapbooks; wedding clothes to works of art. The objects selected for this exhibition symbolize journeys of every category and character: physical journeys, transformative journeys, journeys of the spirit, and journeys of the imagination. A journey is not only the physical movement of a person or object through time and space, but the metamorphosis that the person or object undergoes. Even an object’s creation is a journey, a process of movement and transformation over the course of many, sometimes countless hours.
The unique and rare artifacts in the show have traveled from near and far to their present home at Ohio State, where they are preserved and where they will continue their individual and collective interactions with students and scholars, with Ohio State and the world.
The Special Collections participating in the exhibition are:
• Byrd Polar Archival Program
• Cartoon Library and Museum
• Charvat Collection of American Fiction
• Hilandar Research Library of medieval Slavic Manuscripts
• Historic Costume & Textiles Collection
• Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
• Medical Heritage Center (part of OSU’s Prior Health Sciences Library)
• Ohio Congressional Archives (including the John Glenn Archives)
• University Archives
• Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Entry Filed under: Exhibits and Displays
