All exhibits are free and open to the public during the same hours as the building in which they are housed, unless otherwise specified and with occasional exceptions for maintenance.
Smathers Library Gallery | September 9, 2024 – December 16, 2024
Florida! Florida! Florida!: Presidential Elections and the Sunshine State
On election night 2000, NBC News political reporter Tim Russert was asked on air about the key to winning the election. He wrote his response on a whiteboard: “FLORIDA! FLORIDA!
FLORIDA!” Russert’s words could have applied to many past presidential elections as well. This exhibit explores the way Florida has and continues to shape the outcome of presidential elections. Curated by Boyd Murphree.
Latin American and Caribbean Collection | August 30, 2024 – December 4, 2024
Los Muertos: Honoring Our Dead
“Pande Muertos” is a collection of Mexican artists’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The title is a play on the words “pan de muertos,” a typical bread in Mexico for the Day of the Dead. It translates as the bread of the dead. Created in 2021, the prints combine artists’ reactions to the pandemic with one of the most important Mexican traditions: Day of the Dead. Curated by Margarita Vargas-Betancourt.
Albert H. Nahmad Panama Canal Gallery | April 6, 2024 – March 7, 2025
Track Changes
Long before a canal cut across the Isthmus of Panama, the first transcontinental railroad charted a similar path between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Built 1850-1855, the Panama Railroad transformed the country’s physical and economic landscape. It propelled Panama into a future of exponential importance as a global crossroad and a tumultuous relationship with the United States that lasted 150 years. The impacts, for better and worse, were profound. Curated by Elizabeth Bemis.
Education Library | November 15, 2O24 – February 17, 2025
Museum Wonderlands in Children’s Literature
Children’s books introduce readers to museums through colorful illustrations and creative dialogue. They present museums as a place for exploration, discovery, and cultural acknowledgment. Curated by Jorge Arcia under the guidance of Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler.
MARSTON Science Library | November 22, 2O24 – May 5, 2025
The Science of Coffee
Coffee unites the world. It grows in more than 70 countries, primarily along the equator. An estimated two billion people drink it every day. Is that perfect cup of coffee an art, a science, or a little of both? Curated by Jean Bossart, Robin Fowler, and Angie Price.
Architecture & Fine Arts Library | September 27, 2023 – December 4, 2O24
The Making of Historic St. Augustine
Florida Governor LeRoy Collins established The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board in 1959. The state agency worked to restore and reconstruct historic structures in the city before its 400th anniversary in 1965. The Preservation Board was abolished in 1997, but its legacy lives on in St. Augustine’s historic downtown district. Curated by Laura Marion and Casey Wooster.
Marston Science Library | July 12, 2023 – December 4, 2O24
What is Science Fiction?
With the world changing so rapidly and people’s imaginations growing along with it, science fiction is the perfect outlet for re-examining the past, experiencing the present through an augmented lens, and expressing future possibilities. Curated by Barrett Uhler, CJ Gott and Brad Curry.
Library West | January 26, 2023 – January 26, 2025
Afrofuturism: Creativity of the Black Mind
Afrofuturism has grown in popularity in recent years and is present in every sector of popular culture. The literary and artistic style reimagines the past or creates an enhanced present and future through an Afrocentric lens. Curated by Antonette Jones.
