History-shaping museum exhibits

The University of Delaware's Library, Museums and Press invites you to explore exhibitions on view this semester in gallery spaces across UD's campus.

Visitors will:

• View more than 60 garments in the Blank Canvas: 1920s Fashion exhibition, drawn from the Fashion and Textile Collection in the Fashion and Apparel Studies Department, along with digital twins, virtual reproductions of selected fragile garments.

• Be reminded by the Photo / Object exhibition, that in this era of quick digital photography captured on a daily basis with cell phones, photographs are real objects made from physical materials, enabling us to revisit our relationship with this artistic medium.

• Celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence through the Lifting As We Climb exhibition which chronicles the resilience of Black communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• Marvel at the recent Quartz acquisitions and learn more about a "mystery" crystal given by Quaesita Drake, a chemistry professor, for whom Drake Hall is named.

• Explore an array of stunning lead minerals from around the globe, including specimens from Australia, Namibia, Morocco and the United States in The Vibrant World of Lead Minerals exhibition.

• View a unique installation of the UD Library, Museums and Press' mineral and art collections in Old College's Main Gallery and rarely seen treasures from an ancient art collection.

All exhibitions are free and open to the public. There are also many online exhibitions available for exploration and discovery.

Read on for more information about each exhibition.