Exhibits

Current and Upcoming Exhibits

Traffic jam at 7th Street and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, circa 1915.

Los Angeles: City of Cars

August 28, 2023 to February 25, 2024

Central Library, History & Genealogy Department

Have you ever wondered how and why Los Angeles became so obsessed with cars?

LAPL150—Our Story is Yours: A Los Angeles Public Library Sesquicentennial Celebration

On View Now

Central Library, Getty Gallery

An exhibition of images and objects of LAPL history from its earliest days until now, which celebrates the story of Los Angeles through...

left to right: interdisciplinary visual artist River Tikwi Garza, and photographer Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin

Creators in Residence

On View Now

Central Library, First Floor Galleries

For the inaugural cohort of the Creators in Residence, we have engaged two uniquely creative and thoughtful...

Past Exhibits

Anne Frank - A History for Today	StoryWalk®
On My Honor… A Century of Girl Scouts in Los Angeles	Barrier Breakers: From Jackie to Pumpsie, 1947-1959
It Really is a River: Documenting an Iconic Urban Waterway	Shades of L.A. – A Los Angeles Family Album
Something in Common	Print Shop for the Big Top: the Majestic Poster Press Collection
Jo Mora: Mapmaker of the American West	Discovery, Disaster, and Dreams: Bridging LA's Water History
Life on a String: The Yale Puppeteers and the Turnabout Theatre	Rough Sleeping: Female Homelessness in L.A. - Photographs by Francine Orr
Off the Clock: Art by LAPL Staff	Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards
Vintage Jewish Fashion Posters	The Autograph Book of L.A.
Over Our Heads: Los Angeles Goes From Stargazing to Moon Landing	GLOW: Michael Light’s Aerial Views of Los Angeles
Undesign the Redline	Jose Ramirez: En su propia tierra / In His Own Soil
Jose Ramirez: En su propia tierra / In His Own Soil	Senior Art Exhibit: Connect, Create, Contribute
On Assignment: Ansel Adams in Los Angeles	All Access: Behind the Scenes with NBA Photographer Andrew D. Bernstein
Satan’s Summer in the City of Angels: The Social Impact of the Night Stalker	Radical Kinship: Celebrating 30 Years of Homeboy Industries
21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story	My Name is Aram: William Saroyan, An Armenian Native Son
L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues	Aftermath Project: War is Only Half the Story
We Won't Go: The L.A. Resistance, Vietnam and the Draft	Robert Weingarten: Focus on Infinity
Take None/Give None: Gusmano Cesaretti Photographs The Chosen Few Motorcyle Club	For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
The Industry in Our Backyard: Television Production in Los Angeles 1940s-1980s	Going Gray in LA: Stories of Aging Along Broadway
Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in L.A.	L.A. Landmarks: Lost and Almost Lost
Pintando: The Colors of Education	City of Angels: Portraits
Signs of Life: Los Angeles is the City of Neon	America's Shakespeare - The Bard Goes West
HERSTORY	Service, Society and Social Change: Post – War Clubs from the Valley Times Newspaper
#TMHealthLA Photography Exhibit	State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
Firsts, Seconds and Thirds: African American Leaders in Los Angeles During the 1960s and 70s from the Rolland Curtis Collection	Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963
The First with the Latest! Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City	To Live and Dine in L.A.
They Shall Not Perish: The Story of Near East Relief	Bunker Hill in the Rear-View Mirror: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of an Urban Neighborhood
African American Military Portraits From the American Civil War	From Pop to the Pit: LAPL Photo Collection Celebrates the Los Angeles Music Scene, 1978-1989
Defining Their Identity - The Changing Roles of Woman in the Post-War Era as Documented by the Valley Times Newspaper	No Further West: The Story of Los Angeles Union Station
All Rise! Hollywood & The Herald go to Court	Songs in the Key of L.A.
King, the Kennedys, & Los Angeles	Treasures of Los Angeles
Stanley Kubrick - A Life in Film	How We Worked, How We Played: Herman Schultheis and Los Angeles in the 1930s"
Edited for Publication: Photographic Manipulations in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner	As the City Grew: Historical Maps of Los Angeles
A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed	The Fine Art of Film Posters: Selections from the Los Angeles Public Library Collection
Legacies of the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles	From Hula Hoops to Hanoi: L.A. Concerns 1954-1965
Far and Wide: The Golden Age of Travel Posters	California In the 20s
Inside/Out: Downtown Los Angeles	Local News: Tabloid Photographs from the Los Angeles Herald Express
Los Angeles at Work 1920 - 1939

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