Know Your NLM Resources: Traveling Exhibitions

Posted by Sarah Levin-Lederer on February 17th, 2023 Posted in: Blog, NLM, NLM Resources
Tags: history of medicine, National Library of Medicine, resources

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Interested in a fun way to engage your community? Looking for ways to connect the history of medicine with today?

The NLM traveling exhibitions, available free of charge, present inspiring stories about history, society, and medicine. Drawn from NLM, they connect visitors to trusted health information resources.

Host an Exhibit

NNLM in the Office of Engagement and Outreach makes available a selection of NLM Traveling Exhibition titles through a Call for Requests.

The Call for Requests is currently closed but the process is as follows:

• NNLM announces and opens a Call for Requests for 7-8 exhibition titles along with an online request form during a 3-week period.
• During the open Call period, online request form is available to submit requests.
• Requests are entered in a lottery for selecting bookings.
• Bookings are confirmed when selected host venues return signed booking agreements.

Join the Making Exhibition Connections listserv to stay up-to-date on future open requestions.

Learn more about hosting exhibitions, and more.

Visit an Exhibit

Current traveling exhibitions are coming to our region! AIDS, Posters and Stories of Public Health is coming to Syracuse, NY in October. Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health is making is making three R7 stops Oak Bluff, MA and Buffalo, NY in March and Providence, RI in May. This Lead is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities is coming to New Haven, CT in July

These are just three examples of the exhibitions currently circulating and the stops they’re making in our region. Find one in your area with the itineraries at the bottom of the page.

Find More Resources

Looking to bring exhibition to your community now? Find online exhibit materials, lesson plans and more to bring this information to you.

History of Medicine Division at NLM also has:

• Circulating Now -blog highlighting aspects of the collection and connecting them to modern medicine and public health
• History Talks
• Digital archives including video and films, prints and photographs, and more.