Exhibitions

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Victoria University Library regularly mounts exhibitions that showcase materials found in the library’s collections. Exhibitions are generally mounted in the display cases in the front lobby and reading room of the E.J. Pratt Library, or are displayed in various parts of the main floor.

Current Exhibition

Belarusian History
Hoeniger Book Collection Prize 2023 Winner, Viktar Yakauleu
Library Foyer | October 5 to October 31, 2023

Front Foyer, Hoeniger Exhibition

 

Past Exhibitions

Celebrating the VWA at 125
April 19 2023 to July 21 2023.
[located in the library foyer and in main reading room]

A celebration of the Victoria Women's Association (VWA) 125th anniversary. The VWA has actively helped build community, students, and the Vic campus since their founding in 1897. This exhibition uses photographs, artifacts, and documents from the Victoria University Archives, Victoria University Library - Special Collections, and the Victoria University Art Collection to illustrate the VWA's long history of supporting Victoria University and its students.

 

Fireside Tales, Selections from the Robins Folklore Collection 
December 14 2022 - February 17, 2023

Image of the cover of The Fying Canoe (La Chasse-Galerie) 1929An exhibition of late 19th and early 20th century books from the E.J. Pratt Library’s Robins Folklore Collection.
It features beautiful illustrations and the books represent a wide gamut ranging from stories of Inuit culture, to folktales from Georgia, Iceland and China.

A Visionary Symmetry: Northrop Frye & William Blake
October 20 to December 9, 2022
A Visionary Symmetry: Northrop Frye & William Blake

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