The Rubenstein Library exhibit suite (Mary Duke Biddle Room, Stone Family Gallery, and Josiah C. Trent History of Medicine Room) will all be open on Saturday, May 14, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., for Duke Commencement weekend.
Library visitors can see Virginia Woolf’s writing desk, a copy of the Bay Psalm Book (first book printed in what is now the United States), our double-elephant folios of Audubon’s Birds of America, and many other treasures from the Rubenstein Library.
Exhibits currently on display include:
- An Iconic Identity: Stories and Voices of Duke University Chapel, in the Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
- Faith in Action: In the Footsteps of Abraham Joshua Heschel, in the Mary Duke Biddle Room
- Heralding the Way to a New World: Exploring Women in Science and Medicine through the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, in the Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
- Where We Live: A North Carolina Portrait, in the Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery
- Time Reopened: The Original Washington Duke Hotel’s Time Capsule, in the Sperling Lobby
Visit our library exhibits website to find out more.