Featured Exhibition

Celebrating the Noted Hymnal

Library Exhibitions

Celebrating Laurier Achievements

The Laurier Library and the Office of Research Services present the Celebrating Laurier Achievements program. This program highlights the accomplishments of Laurier authors and creators through this online showcase. The inaugural collection features published books and major musical, artistic, and other creative work by Laurier faculty, staff, students, alumni, and retirees between 2018 and 2021. It features broad representation of researchers from all campuses and locations in an online showcase using videos and posters that can be shared widely by all members of the Laurier community.

Faculty Exhibitions

Recounting Huronia

The Recounting Huronia Community Archive preserves and makes public histories of institutionalization with photography, institutional records, interviews, and artwork. This archive focuses on the violent and shameful history of the Huronia Regional Centre, which from 1876 until 2009 housed people who had been diagnosed with intellectual disabilities. Institutional survivors worked alongside allied researchers and artists to organize content into collections and to curate profiles and exhibits that tell survivors’ stories.

Canadian Cold War Propaganda Posters

This exhibition is part of an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project between Wilfrid Laurier University and The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum. The exhibit explores the gendered aspects of Canadian civil defence publicity through an analysis of early Cold War propaganda posters.

Laurier Archives and Special Collections

Celebrating the Noted Hymnal

In 2008, the Laurier Library acquired its first manuscript for its Rare Book Collection. The Noted Hymnal has been a valuable resource for students, instructors, and researchers. This exhibit celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the acquisition of the Noted Hymnal and showcases the conservation and digitization work completed on the manuscript.

Student Exhibitions

One Generation's Experiences in Two Pandemics

Using oral history and archival evidence, this exhibit examines one generation's experience with childhood Polio in the 1930s to 1950s and as older adults at risk from COVID-19 in 2020 in Brantford, Ontario.

Miss Canadian University Pageant and Protest, 1970

This exhibit showcases the women's liberation protest at the 1970 Miss Canadian University Pageant. Protestors exposed the dehumanizing and sexist nature of pageants and ultimately succeeded in cancelling the annual event. This exhibit uses photographs and archival documents to piece together the protest and situates this moment of activism within larger feminist and student protests.

If you are interested in initiating an exhibition and need some help, please email libdigitalproject@wlu.ca to book a consultation, or submit an exhibition project proposal.