Rare Book Room - PAST EXHIBITS

What Does It All Mean? Exploring the Dictionary (April 2025 - January 2026)
Rare Books 101 (September 2024 - April 2025)
Four Centuries of Bookbinding: The Jordan Collection (Feb 2023 - Sep 2024)
Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America: A Great National Work (June 2021 - February 2023)
OMAR KHAYYÁM’S RUBÁIYÁT (April 2018 - March 2019)
Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings (March 2017 - March 2018)
Celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare: Reflecting on the Life of the Bard (March 2016 - February 2017)
You Are Here: Buffalo on the Map (October 2014 - November 2015)
The Wonderful Wizardry of Baum (November 2013 - September 2014)
[Book] Art Inspired by Science [Books] (March 2013 - November 2013)
When Buffalo Burned: The War of 1812 and the Niagara Frontier (June 2012 - March 2013)
Some Things Fishy in Rare Books: Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler and Other Fish Tales (February 2012 - June 2012)
Lafayette Square: Then and Now (June 2011 - January 2012)
Travelers and Cosmopolitans: the Tourist is the Other Fellow (February 2011 - May 2011)
The Ideal Book: William Morris and the Kelmscott Press (October 2010 - January 2011)
In the Garden: The Art of Botanical Illustration (June 2010 - September 2010)
The Three Thayers: Murder & Spectacle in Early Buffalo (February 2010 - May 2010)
Darwin: The Origin of Influence (November 2009 - February 2010)
Double Stars - Men and Women of Astronomy (July 2009 - October 2009)
Alexander Hamilton - The Man Who Made Modern America (April 2009 - June 2009)