Micro Exhibitions

April 2, 2021
Go to Exhibition What’s in a road? This micro-exhibition considers the road as an object in its own right, mining the archive to ask what happens when it cracks and corrodes...
February 10, 2021
This collaborative micro exhibition was created by Beinecke Road Show workshop participants drawing on materials in thier personal archives.  Through a series of Instagram...
January 24, 2021
A micro exhibition collects, describes, explicates, and displays a small group of materials from the Beinecke Library collections that together tell a story, document an...
January 15, 2021
A micro exhibition featuring an episodic series of events, related biographical sketches of members of a community, clusters of objects that share a common format or theme...
December 21, 2020
A micro exhibition might be in the form of a blog post, including brief text, collection material images, and links to relevant resources. This site (like all Yale Sites)...
November 20, 2020
Piazza San Marco, Venice: Writers & Tourists Literary archives provide windows into writers’ creative processes, their writing communities, their intellectual endeavors....
November 20, 2020
To the Woods: Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond In his 1854 book Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) documents the more than two years he lived in...