Exhibits

Upcoming Exhibit

Data Viz: Looking at Visual Knowledge Production 

On view September 2023 – January 2024, Second Floor Gallery, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library | Open during Library hours

Drawing on Bowdoin College’s rare book collection, Data Viz explores the history of using graphics to visualize information. From 15th century Euclidean graphs and 18th century timelines to contemporary network maps of library metadata, this exhibit offers a glimpse a how graphs, charts, iconography, and other typographical devices help us make sense of our world.  

<<< Euclid’s Elements of Geometry. Vicenza: Leonard Achates, 1491.


On View

  • Bowdoin College Presidents: Scholarship – An archival exhibit curated by Amy Cai ’25 – First Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
  • Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Life and Legacy – Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
  • (forthcoming) Small Presses in Maine: Granite Press &  Beatrix Gates – Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
  • New at SC&A: Recent Acquisitions – Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
  • John James Audubon’s Birds of America – Monday-Friday, 11:00PM-5:00PM by appointment, Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

Online Exhibits

  • Tension and Tenacity: Africana Studies at 50

Exhibit Archive

Explore past Library exhibits and associated materials.