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

AVAILABLE

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.


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

FULLY BOOKED

through 2010 - 2 copies

NLM Tour beginning 2009 - 3rd copy

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

AVAILABLE

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 paintings that gives thanks for a miraculous healing or blessing.


Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature logo

AVAILABLE

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

FULLLY BOOKED

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.


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.

AVAILABLE


TOUR BEGINS Fall 2009

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

through March 2011

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

AVAILABLE

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.

Last reviewed: 07 August 2009
Last updated: 07 August 2009
First published: 30 April 2004
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