Exhibits bring the Music Library's special collections to a larger audience. You can read about current and past exhibits. You can view many of our complete exhibits online:

Our exhibits are free and open to the public.

• Maker of a Kindly Permanence: Oral History of American Music
• From Stoeckel to Hindemith: The Early Years of the Yale School of Music
• The Struggles and Triumphs of Bessie Jones, Big Mama Thornton, and Ethel Waters
• From Prodigy to Priestess: Clara Schumann at 200
• "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
• Musical Daughters of Eli: Women Pioneers at Yale
• "They Sang and Took the Sword": Music of World War I
• Treasures of Guitar and Lute Music from the Gilmore Music Library
• Musical Roots of the Elm City
• “Tomorrow’s Overture is Always Best”: The Music of Kay Swift
• A Riff on Ruff: Yale’s Jazz Ambassador to the World
• Bringing Order Out of Chaos: A Century of Robert Shaw
• Ezra Laderman: In Memoriam
• Preaching to the Choir: American Jazz and Cold War Diplomacy in Southeast Asia
• Organ Music Treasures from the Gilmore Music Library
• Boundaries of Romanticism
• Plays Well with Others: Duets in Instrumental Treatises
• Hot Spots: Highlights from the Jazz Collections in the Gilmore Music Library
• Verdi and his Singers
• Master or Monster: Richard Wagner at 200
• Encountering the Other
• Hail to the Chief: Presidents in the Gilmore Archives
• Beyond Paper: Treasures and Curiosities from the Gilmore Archives
• Franz Liszt: Transcending the Virtuosic
• Histories of Music
• Robert Schumann: Composer, Critic, & Correspondent
• "Hats Off, Gentlemen--A Genius": Chopin at 200
• A Renaissance Man Among the Romantics: Felix Mendelssohn at 200
• Musicians and Their Pets