Exhibitions

THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY staff and invited curators prepare public exhibitions of material selected from the collections.

The Library’s newest exhibition, "Neue Welt: Germans and the Americas, 1493-1830," includes important early books demonstrating the engagement of Germans with the New World. This new exhibition explores the more than three centuries of transatlantic German contexts in the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library. Visit this exhibition in the Reading Room from May 2013 to September 2013.

Recent exhibitions may also be visited virtually. The online version serves as a record of an exhibition and ensures that our audience will be able to view the treasures of the John Carter Brown Library from any place on earth with internet access.

Neue Welt: Germans and the Americas, 1493-1830
May to September 15, 2013
Dennis Landis
America and the China Trades, 1750-1850
September 2010
Caroline Frank
The Florida Story: Reconnaissance and Rivalry on a Maritime Periphery
January 2013 to April 2013
Amy Turner Bushell, Independent Research Scholar, and Susan Danforth, Curator of Maps, John Carter Brown Library.
Atlantic Materia Medica
January 2007-May 2007
Ken Ward and Adrián López-Denis with a team of ten Brown students.
Mind Your Business: Records of Early American Commerce at the John Carter Brown Library
September 2012 to December 2012
Kim Nusco
Voyage to the Islands: Hans Sloane, Slavery, and Scientific Travel in the Caribbean
May to August 2012
James Delbourgo, with Susan Danforth
The Illustrated Colonial Printer: An Exhibition to Accompany The Colonial Printer by Lawrence Wroth
February 2012 through April 2012
Kenneth C. Ward
Drugs from the Colonies: The New American Medicine Chest
September 2011 to December 2011
Dennis C. Landis
The Age of Spanish American Revolutions: Spanish South America
April 2010 to October 2011
Kenneth C. Ward
Jews and the Americas: 165 Years of Collecting at the JCB
October 2010 to March 2011
Dennis Landis