Exhibitions at the Folger

Upcoming exhibitions

2016 Anniversary Exhibitions

Current exhibition

Shakespeare's the Thing

Past exhibitions

2010s

Folger exhibitions 2013-2014

• Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare

• A Book Behind Bars: The Robben Island Shakespeare

• Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland

Folger exhibitions 2012-2013

• Very Like a Whale

• Open City: London, 1500-1700

• Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700

Folger exhibitions 2011-2012

• Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible

• Fame, Fortune, & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio

• Behind Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science

Folger exhibitions 2010

• Vivat Rex!: 50th Anniversary of Henry VIII's Accession to the Throne

• Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750

• Extending the Book: the Art of Extra-Illustration

2000s

Folger exhibitions 2009-2010

• Europeans in China: the View from Europe, 1500-1700

• The Curatorial Eye: Discoveries from the Folger Vault

• To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Folger exhibitions 2008-2009

• Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper

• Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare

• History in the Making: How Early Modern Britain Reimagined its Past

Folger exhibitions 2007-2008

• Marketing Shakespeare: the Boydell Gallery, 1789-1805, & Beyond

• Shakespeare in American Life

Folger exhibitions 2006-2007

• Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print

• Noyses, Sounds, and Sweet Aires": Music in Early Modern England

• Golden Lads & Lasses: Shakespeare for Children

Folger exhibitions 2005

• Consuming Splendor: Luxury Goods in England, 1580-1680

• David Garrick, 1717-1779: A Theatrical Life

Folger exhibitions 2004-2005

• Letterwriting in Renaissance England

• Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution

• Word & Image: The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608

Folger exhibitions 2003

• Fakes, Forgeries & Facsimiles

• Elizabeth I: Then and Now

Folger exhibitions 2002-2003

• Thys Boke is Myne

• A Shared Passion

• The Pen's Excellencie

Folger exhibitions 2001-2002

• The Reader Revealed

• Designer Bookbinders in North America

Folger exhibitions 2000-2001

• Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

• A Decade of Collecting: Celebrating Ten Years of Acquisitions

• All is But Fortune

1990s

Folger exhibitions 1999

• Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England

• Seeing What Shakespeare Means

Folger exhibitions 1998-1999

• Designs from Fancy: George Romney's Shakespearean Drawings

• Papers and Porcelains: Two Recent Gift Collections

• Mapping Early Modern Worlds

Folger exhibitions 1997-1998

• Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipes, & Helpful Hints

• Shakespeare's Unruly Women

Folger exhibitions 1996-1997

• Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar

Folger exhibitions 1995-1996

• The Festive Renaissance: Illustrated Books from the Colt Collection

• Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-Century English Broadsides and Newsbooks