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==Current exhibitions==
==Current exhibitions==
* ''[[First Folio! Shakespeare's American Tour]]'' November 19, 2016 - January 22, 2017
''Churchill's Shakespeare'': Oct. 6, 2018 – Jan 6, 2019


==Current traveling exhibitions==
==Current traveling exhibitions==
* [[First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare|''First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare'']] January 4, 2016 - January 2, 2017
None at the moment
* ''[[America's Shakespeare: The Bard Goes West]]'' November 17, 2016 - February 26, 2017 (Los Angeles Public Library)


==Upcoming exhibitions==
==Upcoming exhibitions==
 
''First Chefs:Fame and Foodways from Britain to the Americas'': Jan 19 – Mar 31, 2019
* ''500 Years of Treasures from Oxford ''2017 February 4, 2017 - April 30, 2017
* ''Painting Shakespeare''


==Permanent displays==
==Permanent displays==
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* [[Founders' Room temporary exhibitions]]
* [[Founders' Room temporary exhibitions]]
* [[Tea Room temporary exhibitions]]
* [[Tea Room temporary exhibitions]]
* [[Pop-up exhibitions at the Folger|Pop-up exhibitions]]
==Past traveling exhibitions==
* [[First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare|''First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare'']] January 4, 2016 – January 2, 2017 (50 States and 2 territories)
* ''[[America's Shakespeare: The Bard Goes West]]'' November 17, 2016 – February 26, 2017 (Los Angeles Public Library)


==Past exhibitions==
==Past exhibitions==


===2010s===
===2010s===
* [[Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity|''Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity'']] August 6, 2016 - November 6, 2016
* ''[[Form and Function: The Genius of the Book]]'' (June 16 – September 23, 2018)
* ''[[America's Shakespeare]]'' April 7, 2016 - July 24, 2016
 
* [[Shakespeare, Life of an Icon|''Shakespeare, Life of an Icon'']] January 20, 2016 - March 27, 2016
* ''[[Beyond Words: Book Illustration in the Age of Shakespeare]]'' (February 24 to June 3, 2018)
* [[Age of Lawyers|''Age of Lawyers: The Roots of American Law in Shakespeare's Britain'']] September 12, 2015 – January 3, 2016
* [[Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude|''Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude'']] March 19, 2015 – August 23, 2015.


* [[Decoding the Renaissance: 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers|''Decoding the Renaissance: 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers'']]'' ''November 11, 2014 March 1, 2015.
* ''[[Painting Shakespeare]]'' (May 13, 2017 February 11, 2018)


* [[Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England|''Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England'']] July 1 – October 16, 2014
* ''[[500 Years of Treasures from Oxford]] '' (February 4, 2017 - April 30, 2017)


* [[Shakespeare's the Thing|''Shakespeare's the Thing'']] January 28 – June 15, 2014
* ''[[First Folio! Shakespeare's American Tour]]'' (November 19, 2016 - January 22, 2017)
 
* [[Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity|''Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity'']] (August 6, 2016 – November 6, 2016)
 
* ''[[America's Shakespeare]]'' (April 7, 2016 – July 24, 2016)
 
* [[Shakespeare, Life of an Icon|''Shakespeare, Life of an Icon'']] (January 20, 2016 – March 27, 2016)
 
* [[Age of Lawyers|''Age of Lawyers: The Roots of American Law in Shakespeare's Britain'']] (September 12, 2015 – January 3, 2016)
 
* [[Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude|''Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude'']] (March 19, 2015 – August 23, 2015)
 
* [[Decoding the Renaissance: 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers|''Decoding the Renaissance: 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers'']]'' (''November 11, 2014 – March 1, 2015)
 
* [[Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England|''Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare's England'']] (July 1 – October 16, 2014)
 
* [[Shakespeare's the Thing|''Shakespeare's the Thing'']] (January 28 – June 15, 2014)


*[[Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare|''Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare'']] (2013–2014)
*[[Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare|''Here Is a Play Fitted: Four Centuries of Staging Shakespeare'']] (2013–2014)
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*[[Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-Century English Broadsides and Newsbooks|''Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-Century English Broadsides and Newsbooks'']] (1995–1996)
*[[Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-Century English Broadsides and Newsbooks|''Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-Century English Broadsides and Newsbooks'']] (1995–1996)


===Earlier exhibitions===
*''Elizabethan Households'' (1995)  
*''Elizabethan Households'' (1995)  
**The book [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=68898 ''Elizabethan Households: An Anthology''] by Lena Cowen Orlin was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
**The book [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=68898 ''Elizabethan Households: An Anthology''] by Lena Cowen Orlin was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
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*''Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in Book Collecting'' (1990)
*''Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in Book Collecting'' (1990)
===1980s===


*''Shakespeare: The Works ''(1989)
*''Shakespeare: The Works ''(1989)
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*''Shakespeare, the Globe, and the World'' (1979–1981)
*''Shakespeare, the Globe, and the World'' (1979–1981)
**No formal exhibition catalog was produced, but there is an [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=13311 accompanying book] by Samuel Schoenbaum and a [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=17603 magazine article] by Michael Bandler.
**No formal exhibition catalog was produced, but there is an [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=13311 accompanying book] by Samuel Schoenbaum and a [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=17603 magazine article] by Michael Bandler.
**This exhibition traveled during the period in which renovations were being carried out on the Folger buildings on Capitol Hill, and so was never displayed at the Folger Shakespeare Library itself.
===Earlier Exhibitions===


*"A Decade of Folger Acquisitions: 1968-1978" (1978-1979)
*"A Decade of Folger Acquisitions: 1968-1978" (1978-1979)
**The [[Media:DecadeofFolgerAcq6878.pdf|exhibition catalog]]


*"Petrarch in America : a survey of Petrarchan manuscript" (1974)
*"Petrarch in America : a survey of Petrarchan manuscript" (1974)
**At the Folger Shakespeare Library, April 6-May 5, and the Pierpont Morgan Library, May 16-June 27.
**At the Folger Shakespeare Library, April 6-May 5, and the Pierpont Morgan Library, May 16-June 27.
**http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=34300
**The [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=34300 exhibition catalog]


== Exhibitions by year==
== Exhibitions by year==

Revision as of 10:38, 11 October 2018

Current exhibitions

Churchill's Shakespeare: Oct. 6, 2018 – Jan 6, 2019

Current traveling exhibitions

None at the moment

Upcoming exhibitions

First Chefs:Fame and Foodways from Britain to the Americas: Jan 19 – Mar 31, 2019

Permanent displays

Satellite exhibition spaces

Past traveling exhibitions

Past exhibitions

2010s

2000s

1990s

  • Sword and the Pen (1995)
  • Collectors’ Choice: Favorites from Collections of Friends of the Folger Library (1994–1995)
  • Royal Autographs: the Tudor and Stuart Monarchs of England (1994)
  • Roasting the Swan of Avon: Shakespeare's Redoubtable Enemies & Dubious Friends (1994)
  • Unfaded Pageant: Edwin Austin Abbey (Loan Exhibition) (1994)
  • Paintings from the Folger Shakespeare Library (1993–1994)
  • Fabulous Beasts: Renaissance Animal Lore (1993)
  • The Elizabethan View of Italy (1993)
    • The exhibition catalog was written by Miranda Johnson-Haddad with Mary Tonkinson, Werner Gundersheimer, and Robert Eisenstein.
  • New World of Wonders, 1492-1700 (1992–1993)
    • The exhibition catalog was edited by Rachel Doggett with Monique Hulvey, and Julie Ainsworth.
  • Fine and Historic Bookbindings (1992)
    • The exhibition catalog was created by Frederick A. Bearman, Nati H. Krivatsy, J. Franklin Mowery with an introduction by Anthony Hobson. Photographs by Julie Ainsworth.
  • Reign of the Horse: the Horse in Print, 1500-1715 (1992)
    • The exhibitions catalog was prepared by Elizabeth Niemyer with the assistance of Susan Scola with an introduction to the catalogue by Anthony Dent.
  • The First Folio of Shakespeare (1991)
  • Cathedral: Faith in Stone (1990)
  • Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in Book Collecting (1990)

1980s

  • Shakespeare: The Works (1989)
  • The Grete Herball: Books from the Collection of Mary P. Massey (1988–1989)
  • The Elizabethan Theater: the Theater Art of C. Walter Hodges (1988)
  • Folger’s choice : Favorites on our Fifty-fifth Anniversary (1987)
  • Vision Into Verse: Marianne Moore and the Modernist Poem (1987–1988)
  • Time: The Greatest Innovator: Timekeeping and Time Consciousness in Early Modern Europe (1986–1987)
    • The exhibition catalog was edited by Rachel Doggett with the assistance of Susan Jaskot and Robert Rand.
  • The Compleat Gentleman: Books from English Country Houses (1985–1986)
  • Emily Dickinson Centennial Symposium and Exhibition (1986)
  • The Collector and the Dream (1982–1983) "in at least 3 parts"
  • The Treatment of Books and Art Materials (1983)
  • Magna Carta (1982)
  • Shakespeare, the Globe, and the World (1979–1981)
    • No formal exhibition catalog was produced, but there is an accompanying book by Samuel Schoenbaum and a magazine article by Michael Bandler.
    • This exhibition traveled during the period in which renovations were being carried out on the Folger buildings on Capitol Hill, and so was never displayed at the Folger Shakespeare Library itself.

Earlier Exhibitions

  • "Petrarch in America : a survey of Petrarchan manuscript" (1974)
    • At the Folger Shakespeare Library, April 6-May 5, and the Pierpont Morgan Library, May 16-June 27.
    • The exhibition catalog

Exhibitions by year

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Folger exhibitions 2012–2013

Folger exhibitions 2011–2012

Folger exhibitions 2010

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Folger exhibitions 2005

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Folger exhibitions 1999

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Folger exhibitions 1996–1997

Folger exhibitions 1995–1996