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There’s something for everyone at the 175th Anniversary Community Open House. Join us Friday, April 5 from 9 AM to 7 PM […]
Please note special hours for Special Collections during spring break for UW-Madison: open 1-5 PM, Monday-Friday, March 25-29, 2024. We will resume our […]
Please join us at an event sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries: Printing Audubon’s The Birds of America Presentation by Emily […]
Because of the forecast for heavy snow, the Department of Special Collections will be closed on January 12. We will reopen at […]
Please note our reading room hours for Special Collections during December 2023 and January 2024: The image here comes from the front cover of […]
The Department of Special Collections reading room and exhibit area will be closed November 22-24, 2023. We will resume our normal hours of Monday-Friday, 9 […]
We were deeply saddened by the news of the death on October 5, 2023, of John Tedeschi, Curator Emeritus of Special Collections […]
The Department of Special Collections reading room and exhibit area will be open 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM on August 23, 2023. […]
The Department of Special Collections reading room and exhibit area will be closed July 3-4, 2023. We will resume our normal hours of Monday-Friday, 9 […]
Please note our reading room hours for Special Collections during December 2022 and January 2023: • Through December 22 (normal hours). Open Monday-Friday 9 […]
November 17, 2021 The Department of Special Collections reading room and exhibit area will be closed November 23-25, 2022. We will resume […]
Illustrations from Derham’s Artificial clock-maker (1734).