Traveling Exhibitions

Many of our on-site exhibitions have a traveling version consisting of informative panels that can be easily installed at public libraries, museums, and cultural organizations throughout Virginia. Click on an exhibition title link below to see if it will be coming to your area—or to learn how to bring that exhibition to your location.

For more information, please contact Barbara C. Batson, exhibitions coordinator, at barbara.batson@lva.virginia.gov or 804.692.3518.

Prohibition
Teetotalers & Moonshiners: Prohibition in Virginia, Distilled
Traveling from through
Virginians imbibed their last legal drink on Halloween night in 1916-more than three years before national Prohibition was enacted. Teetotalers & Moonshiners: Prohibition in Virginia, Distilled tells the story of Virginia Prohibition and its legacy, including the establishment of Virginia's Department of Alcohol Beverage Control and NASCAR. Newsreels of still-busting raids, music from the Jazz Age, and vintage stills complement the archival record of the exploits of Virginia's Prohibition Commission. Supported in part by the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association. Style Weekly is the print media sponsor.

For more information about the traveling version of this exhibition, available in summer 2017, please contact Barbara C. Batson, exhibitions coordinator, at barbara.batson@lva.virginia.gov. To view the current itinerary for this exhibit, please click here.

Check out our blog "UncommonWealth" to read more about Prohibition records at the Library of Virginia.
NOVA VIRGINIAE TABULA Ex officina Guiljelmi Blaeuw. Willem Blaeu (1571–1638). 1630. Amsterdam. Derivative 1, State 2 of Smith’s map of Virginia. Copperplate engraving.
Indigenous Perspectives
Traveling from through
Indigenous Perspectives at the Library of Virginia examines aspects of our collections through the lenses of the eleven federally and state-recognized Virginia tribes. In these interviews, tribal citizens offer reflections on our exhibition themes of retaining tribal culture, identity, resistance, tribal sovereignty, the land and environment, and the future of Virginia’s tribes that enlarge our understanding of documents in the Library’s collections.