Exhibits
Visit Hale Library to view our exhibit. All exhibits are free and open to the public.
Sabores de Casa: Latin American Cuisines
July 29, 2024-March 7, 2025
This exhibit showcases cookbooks from nearly every country in Latin America. It features manuscript and printed cookbooks from Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
Visitors will have the opportunity to view these rare cookbooks and learn more about how Latin American cuisine developed, including the African influence on Caribbean foods.
The exhibit is on display in the fifth-floor gallery of Hale Library.
K-State Radio Centennial: A Century of Sound and Service
Sept. 3, 2024-March 2025
Hale Library’s latest exhibit, which coincides with “K-State Radio Centennial: A Century of Sound and Service,” features a rich collection of records and equipment from the K-State archives, including unique items from the university’s radio community.
Visitors will discover the storied history of radio on campus and across Kansas through vintage recording gear and vibrant photos capturing stations in action. The exhibit will also spotlight the K-State Amateur Radio Club, their projects and their lasting impact on the world of amateur radio.
The exhibit is on display in the fifth-floor gallery of Hale Library.
Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America
Aug. 26, 2024-Oct. 5, 2024
This exhibit explores ways in which meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders and classes.
Curated by historian, author and educator Psyche Williams-Forson, the exhibition focuses on the Chesapeake region during the colonial era, when European settlers relied upon indentured servants, Native Americans and enslaved Africans for labor and life-saving knowledge of farming and food acquisition. The exhibition also looks into life at George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation and the labor of enslaved workers to inform the ways that meals transcend taste and sustenance.
The exhibit is on display on the second floor of Hale Library.