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Exhibits

Currently on Display

This exhibit explores stories of survival, contemplation, competition, protest, learning, and literary creation from seven distinct collections in Special Collections.

Cultivating Community: Stories from Special Collections

Integrating a materials science approach, this exhibit explores how a 16th-century illuminated manuscript materially communicates Spanish hidalgo nobility.

Illuminating a Noble Past: A Scientific Examination of a 16th Century Executory Certificate of Nobility

The objects in this exhibit demonstrate the role that youth played, or were asked to play, in the often romanticized struggle for Irish independence.

Éire Óg / Young Ireland

Featured Digital Exhibits

Documenting Women Printers of the 18th Century: Evidence from Notre Dame’s Collections

Documenting Women Printers of the 18th Century: Evidence from Notre Dame’s Collections

Words on Play: Baseball Literature before 1900 from the Joyce Sports Collection

Words on Play: Baseball Literature before 1900 from the Joyce Sports Collection

The Ferrell Manuscripts

The Ferrell Manuscripts