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Traveling Exhibitions

The Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine provides traveling exhibition services to libraries across the United States. Exhibitions are based on original scholarly research and address a wide range of topics related to the social and cultural history of science, medicine, and technology. Browse the list below to learn more about the format, content, and availability of our traveling exhibitions.


Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health logo

FULLY BOOKED

Banner Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health tells many stories about the revolution in global health that is taking place in villages and towns around the world.


And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors logo

AVAILABLE

Banner Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

"And there's the humor of it:" Shakespeare and the four humors explores how Shakespeare used the four bodily humors to enliven his characters with the idea that emotions are physically determined.


Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine logo

FULLY BOOKED

Banner Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine explores the service of African American men and women as surgeons and nurses during the American Civil war and how their service pushed the boundaries of the role of African Americans in society.


Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians logo

CLOSED TO NEW BOOKINGS

Panel Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians explores the history of women physicians in the United States.


Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos logo

FULLY BOOKED

Poster Exhibition
Variable Booking Periods

Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos explores the relationship between healing and faith through the ex-voto, a devotional painting that gives thanks for a miraculous healing or blessing.


Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature logo

FULLY BOOKED

Panel Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature explores Mary Shelley's world that gave birth to Frankenstein. The exhibition considers how her novel provides a framework for discussions of contemporary bio-medical advances that sometimes challenge our understanding of what it means to be human.


Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine logo

AVAILABLE

Banner Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine explores the world of Harry Potter and its roots in Renaissance magic, science and medicine.


A graphic logo reading The Henkel Physicians: A Family's Life in Letters.

AVAILABLE


Banner Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

The Henkel Physicians: A Family's Life in Letters draws from the National Library of Medicine's collection of the Henkel family correspondence to illuminate the lives of men of medicine in 19th century Virginia.


A graphic of a Civil War era artifical leg above the words Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War.

FULLY BOOKED


Banner Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War explores the experiences of veterans of the American Civil war many of whom survived severe wounds and loss of limbs. These veterans were a symbol of the fractured nation and a stark reminder of the costs of the conflict.


Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Yellow Wallpaper banner featuring an image of Charlotte Gilman Perkins seated at a desk. Courtesy The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

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Banner Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Yellow Wall-Paper examines a nineteenth-century writer's challenge to the medical profession and the relationship between science and society.


Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons logo

FULLY BOOKED

Banner Exhibition
Six and Eight Week Booking Periods

Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons celebrates the contributions of African American academic surgeons to medicine and medical education.


Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons logo

FULLY BOOKED

Poster Exhibition
Variable Booking Periods

Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons celebrates the contributions of African American academic surgeons to medicine and medical education.


A Voyage to Health logo, featuring The voyaging canoe Hokule‘a, ca. 1997. Courtesy Monte Costa

AVAILABLE

Banner Exhibition
Six Week Booking Period

A Voyage to Health explores the recent revival of the ancient arts of navigation and voyaging of the people of Hawai‘i. The exhibition explores this resurgence and its significance for health, well-being, and self-determination.