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

Reliving the Trenches: Materiality, Memory and the Military 
Library Foyer, Nov 11th - Dec 13th, 2024,
"Small Opening" from 1-3pm on Nov 11th, Remembrance Day

Image of a tank-shaped greeting card framed by read theatre curtains with a title that reads, Reliving the Trenches.

This exhibition restages a modernist play written and performed by the Varsity Veterans Association at Hart House Theatre in the 1920 inaugural season. No photos exist of the performance, but the never-before displayed script, stage directions and posters found in UTARMS are included in the exhibition. It displays WWI diaries, photographs, ephemera, and items held by Victoria University Library's Special Collections and the Vic Archives. A loan of artifacts, like those used in the original play, will also be exhibited.

Also, see the companion online exhibition. It's a story map featuring materials from the Victoria University Archives.
 
Curated by Material Culture and Semiotic students at Vic (Eunice Der, Emily Fan, Charlotte DeLeskie and Aanya Khaitan) with Professor Cathie Sutton and supported by the E.J. Pratt Library. 

Image featured above: Tank shaped Christmas Greeting Card, Harold Bull Fonds, Victoria University Library (Toronto), 2014.06, Box 1, File 3

Past Exhibitions

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

Front Foyer, Hoeniger Exhibition

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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