Exhibit | Reading Abbott
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About Reading Abbott
Exhibit | Textures of Book History
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The exhibit includes irreplaceable witnesses to the story of book history from its origins as clay tablets through the mass-produced nineteenth-century editions.
Writing systems and their scripts develop alongside innovations in materials that support the text, which in turn, influenced the resulting form of the book as object. As writing is a communication process of ideas, various intellectual movements will also impact form.
Exhibit | Flavourful Fellowship: Church, Congregational, and Community Cookbooks
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Exhibit | Music in the making
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This exhibition shines a light on the work and the processes involved in creating music, thinking about music, and writing (about) music. Rather than focusing on the final product, whether that be an article, composition, performance, or recording, it celebrates the space in which musicians engage, struggle, explore, reject, and develop their musical ideas and practices.
Display | Beyond the Ballroom: Celebrating Queer History Month
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In honor of Queer History Month, the McGill Libraries have created a book display to celebrate the vibrant and transformative worlds of ballroom and drag culture, which have long served as cornerstones for LGBTQ+ expression, resistance, and community-building.
Exhibit | Chant Alive! An exhibit mounted in collaboration with the McGill Schulich School of Music and Montreal’s Ensemble Scholastica
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Assembled with considerable acumen over 150 years, Rare Books and Special Collections of the McGill University Libraries maintains a significant collection of two hundred and fifty European medieval manuscripts, each one presenting unusual or exquisite scripts, notations, and decoration.
