Archives and Special Collections Exhibits
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Creation Date
1-2020
Description
The exhibit “Space: Exploring the Final Frontier in the Archives” features cases with items that cover a wide array of topics:
- rare astronomy books from the 18th and 19th centuries
- Astronomy Department at UM
- handwritten accounts of 19th century astronomical observations by UM faculty and students
- music with space themes
- Primitive artist Howard Finster’s space visions
- UFO sightings in Pascagoula in 1973
- science fiction
- U.S. space program
Dates: January 2020 and extended through November 2021 due to the pandemic closures in most of 2020 Location: Archives & Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library with one additional case on view in the Science Library and another on the second floor of the J.D. Williams Library
Relational Format
exhibit