Get Involved: Host NLM Traveling Exhibitions

Host an NLM Traveling Exhibition

Libraries and cultural institutions present inspiring stories about history, society, and medicine to their communities through NLM Traveling Exhibitions. Curated from NLM collections and available free of charge, these exhibitions explore current themes in public health and connect visitors to trusted NLM health information resources such as MedlinePlus and PubMed.

Hosting NLM Traveling Exhibitions brings institutions publicity through programming, encourages community partnerships, and fosters health literacy in your community. Please visit each traveling exhibition web page listed below and look for examples of how to connect audiences to NLM’s trusted health resources under “Programming with NLM Health Information Resources.”

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How to Request a Traveling Exhibition
The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) in the Office of Engagement and Outreach makes available a selection of NLM Traveling Exhibition titles through a Call for Requests.

The overview of request and booking process for NLM Traveling Exhibitions as follows:
- NNLM announces and opens a Call for Requests for 7-8 exhibition titles along with an online request form during a 3-week period;
- During the open Call period, online request form is available to submit requests;
- Requests are entered in a lottery for selecting bookings; and
- Bookings are confirmed when selected host venues return signed booking agreements.
Visit NNLM’s Traveling Exhibitions to find when and how to request NLM Traveling Exhibitions.
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NLM Traveling Exhibitions by Title
- AIDS Posters and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic
- “And there’s the humor of it!”: Shakespeare and the four humors
- Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine
- Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health
  
  View "Zine Workshop” Public Programming Example
- Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives
- Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives/ Enfrentando La Violencia: mejorando la vida de las mujeres (English and Spanish bilingual banners)
- Every Necessary Care and Attention: George Washington & Medicine
- Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America
- For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform
  
  View “NLM’s MedlinePlus for Community Health Workers” Public Programming Example
- For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform/Para todo el pueblo: Un siglo de acción ciudadana en la reforma de la atención de la salud (English and Spanish bilingual banners)
  
  View “NLM’s MedlinePlus for Community Health Workers” Public Programming Example
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
- From DNA To Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry
- Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn!
  
  View "Zine Workshop" Public Programing Example
- Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War
- Making a World of Difference: Stories about Global Health
  
  View "Reel-iable Health Information Film Challenge" Public Programing Example
- The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
- Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons
- Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States
  
  View "In Our Own Voices" Public Programing Example
- Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care
- Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions
- Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection
- Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America
- Rashes to Research: Scientists and Parents Confront the 1964 Rubella Epidemic
  
  View "Reel-iable Health Information Film Challenge" Public Programing Example
- Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine in Harry Potter's World
  
  View "Herbology in Action" Public Programing Example
- Rise, Serve, Lead! America’s Women Physicians
- Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture
  
  View "Reaching Out" Public Programing Example
- Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture/Sobrevivir y Prosperar: Sida, Política y Cultura (English and Spanish bilingual banners)
  
  View "Reaching Out" Public Programing Example
- This Lead Is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities
  
  View "Train-the-Trainer Workshop" Public Programming Example
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Questions?

Email us at NLMTravelingExhibits@nih.gov.
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Last Reviewed: January 23, 2023