Exhibits

Featured Exhibit

Current and Upcoming Exhibits

Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Poster featuring anthropomorphic animals. An elephant ticket taker, clown pig, and chimpanzee attendees.

Print Shop for the Big Top: the Majestic Poster Press Collection

February 25, 2022 to August 25, 2022

Central Library, First Floor Galleries

Step right up, the circus is coming to the Los Angeles Public Library! Featuring works and artifacts from the now folded Majestic Poster...

photo of Los Angeles Venice canals dream up by Abbot Kinney, 1922

Discovery, Disaster, and Dreams: Bridging LA's Water History

June 07, 2021 to July 11, 2022

Central Library, History & Genealogy Department

From the pueblo days of Zanja Madre to Mulholland’s aqueduct to Abbot Kinney’s canals, the history of Los Angeles and water is one of...

Past Exhibits

Jo Mora: Mapmaker of the American West	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
We Won't Go: The L.A. Resistance, Vietnam and the Draft	Aftermath Project: War is Only Half the Story
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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