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Exhibitions & Events
TUSC welcomes students, educators, and learners of all kinds for communal exploration and study. If you would like to partner with us on our outreach activities or learn more about TUSC programming, please contact specialcollections@tulane.edu.
Exhibitions and Public Programming
Current Exhibitions
As Light as Paper, as Firm as Stone: 500 Years of Printing and Building, September 11, 2026 – May 28, 2027.
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Workshop - In the Archives: Discovering New Orleans through Primary Sources
Friday, November 13, 2026
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Louis Prima Room (Room 306), Jones Hall
RSVP required: https://tulane.libcal.com/calendar/TUL/inthearchives-fall2026
This hands-on introduction to archives features original materials from the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, one of the collecting areas of Tulane University Special Collections. Learn what archives are, how to use primary source materials for research and exploration, and how archival collections help document the history and culture of New Orleans. Melissa A. Weber, curator of the Hogan Archive, will lead the workshop.
Open to the Tulane University community and the general public. Students are especially encouraged to attend.
Space is limited to 20 participants. For more information, email mweber3@tulane.edu.
Past Exhibitions
Recent exhibitions include “I Shall Not Be Moved”: Black Student Life at Tulane, 1963-2023 (April - December 2023); Absolutely Unpredictable: Anne Rice in the City of Transgression (October 2022 - February 2023); Music IS the Scene": Jazz Fest's First Decade, 1970-1979 (March - May 2022); Captive Voices: Hearing, Seeing, and Imagining Angola Prison, launched as a complement to the 2019 Tulane Reading Project selection, Vengeance by Zachary Lazar; and Proteus 1892, Teunisson 1902, and Louis Armstrong 1949: Selections from the Carnival Holdings.
View highlights from the following recent exhibitions on the Tulane Libraries YouTube channel:
- Cut from a Different Cloth: Fashion Selections from Tulane Special Collections (2025-2026)
- Absolutely Unpredictable: Anne Rice in the City of Transgression (2022)
- "Music IS the Scene”: Jazz Fest’s First Decade, 1970-1979 (2022)
- Where We Stand: Zines from New Orleans (2020)
- Proteus 1892, Teunisson 1902, and Louis Armstrong 1949: Selections from the Carnival Holdings (2019)
- The Laurel Valley Plantation Photographs of Philip M. Denman (2018)
- Cook Dat! A Celebration of New Orleans Cuisine (2018)
Digital Exhibitions
TUSC staff, as well as many Tulane students, have created several digital exhibitions that feature TUSC collections. Some highlights are linked here; to view all of the TUSC digital exhibitions, please visit the Tulane Libraries portal for online exhibitions.
- Books Through Their Pages
- William Faulkner’s New Orleans
- The Treasures of Tulane
- Riverboats and Jazz
- Education: Celebrating the Artistic, Academic, Athletic, and Administrative Achievements of the Women of Tulane University
- Louisiana Women’s Collection: A History of Political Activism
- The Organic Modernism of Albert C. Ledner
- “Music IS the Scene”: Jazz Fest’s First Decade, 1970-1979
- The Extraordinary Life of Natalie Scott
Loans for Exhibitions
Loan requests must be from institutions with established exhibition programs and professional staff qualified to handle the materials requested. Loan requests are judged on their own merits, and the final decision to loan an item is made on a case-by-case basis. TUSC will provide an agreement for approved loans and cannot sign agreements from a borrowing institution. For more information about our loan program, please email Kevin Williams, Coordinator for Exhibits & Outreach, Tulane University Special Collections, kevinw@tulane.edu.