Notifications
- The Library will be closed on Monday, July 3rd and Tuesday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.
Past Exhibitions
Ribbons Across the Land: Building the U.S. Interstate Highway System, 2016
Gas, Food, Lodging, 2016
Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide, 2016
Comet Hunter: The Observation Logs of David H. Levy, 2015
Paleo Kansas City: Geology and Paleontology of the Great Plains Region, 2015
Ingenious Objects: Geometric Puzzles by Stewart Coffin, 2015
The Land Divided, The World United: Building the Panama Canal, 2014
Wheels, Pyramids and Spinning Tops: Color Science Throughout History, 2013
Crayon and Stone: Science Embraces the Lithograph, 1800-1899, 2013
On Time: The Quest for Precision, 2012
Blade and Bone: The Discovery of Human Antiquity, 2012
This Time It’s Personal: Innovation in Your Home, 2011
What’s the Big Idea? A History of Innovation, 2011
The Atomic Age: The Discovery and Evolution of Nuclear Science, 2010
Thinking Outside the Sphere: Views of the Stars from Aristotle to Herschel, 2010
The Grandeur of Life: A Celebration of Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species, 2009
Singular Beauty: Simple Microscopes from the Giordano Collection and Rare Books from the Linda Hall Library, 2009
- Locomotion: Railroads in the Early Age of Steam, 2008
Ice: A Victorian Romance, 2008
- Connections: Recent Acquisitions and Books from the Collection, 2008
- The Year the Space Age Began: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Launch of Sputnik, 2007-2008
- Out of This World, with Further Out: Recent Acquisitions of Celestial Atlases, 2007
- Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt, 2006
- Women’s Work, 2005
- Science Goes West, 2004
- Vulcan’s Forge and Fingal’s Cave: Volcanoes, Basalt, and the Discovery of Geological Time, 2003
- Centuries of Civil Engineering, 2002
- Voyages: Scientific Circumnavigations 1679-1859, 2001
- The Trees of Linda Hall Library: Grown on the Grounds and in Rare Books, 2001
- Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, 1998
- In Situ, an exhibition of temporary art that engages the environment, 1998
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- A collaboration among the Kansas City Art Institute, the University of Missouri at Kansas City Gallery of Art, and the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology.
- Picturing Plants, 1997
- Virtual Nomad: Textiles and Technologies, 1997
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- By Kansas City Art Institute faculty.
- Paper Dinosaurs, 1824-1969, 1996
- Early Lathes and the Art of Ornamental Turning, 1996
- Out of This World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas, 1995
- Art From Detritus, 1995
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- Art from recycled materials by various artists.
- Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, 1994
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- On loan from IBM
- Landmarks of Chemistry, 1994
- It’s About Time! Rare books on the history of clocks and clockmaking, 1993
- Scientific Incunabula, 1993
- Books that Darwin Read, 1993
- Uniquely American: The discovery of America’s Plants and Animals, 1992
- “To make a vain man humble”: Electricity in the Enlightenment, 1991
- Milestones of Technology, 1991
- A Bridgebuilder’s Bequest: An Exhibition of Books Purchased with the Howard Memorial Library Fund, 1991
- The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo, 1989
- Scientific Journal: 40 Landmark Articles, 1989
- Art of Natural History, 1988
- Early Planetary Images, 1988
- Patterns of Selection in Recent Acquisitions, 1988
- Shoulders of Giants: An exhibit to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Newton’s Principia, 1987
- Roots of Chemistry, 1986
- Jesuit Science in the Age of Galileo, 1986
- Dr. Halley’s Prediction: Books on Halley’s Comet and on Cometary Theory, 1985
- Theories of the Earth, 1644-1830: The History of Genre, 1984
- Shakespeare’s World: Scientific Books of the Renaissance, 1980
- Three Centuries of Science and Scientist in America: A Bicentennial Exhibit, 1976
- 500 Years of Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1973, 1973
- Source Materials in the History of Mathematics, 1482-1830, 1972
- Source Materials in the History of Chemistry, 1540-1900, 1968
- Highlights of Astronomy, 1966
- Archimedes to Einstein, 1965
- Historic Books and Papers in Geology, 1546-1905, 1965
- One Hundred Herbals, 1472-1671, 1964
- Milestones in the History of Science, 1956