Exhibits

The following exhibits are currently on display at the Laupus Library. Most physical exhibits are open to the public during the library’s normal operating hours. Exhibits in the History Collections Reading Room are usually open when the Reading Room is open or by appointment.

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Physical Exhibits

Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy

Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy presents the history of physiognomy—the practice of assessing one’s mental character based on physical attributes—and explores its influence on contemporary artificial intelligence and computer science technologies that gather and interpret bodily data. Now debunked as pseudoscience, physiognomy enjoyed periods of legitimacy and popularity over a history spanning millennia, influencing the fields of medicine, biology, philosophy, anthropology, psychiatry, and criminology. After serving as tool for scientific racism and eugenics, physiognomy was roundly discredited in the 20th century.

– From the National Library of Medicine

This is a traveling NLM exhibit and will be on the 4th floor of the library from June 23rd – August 2nd.

Aesthetics of Anatomy Art Display

Ongoing
2nd floor
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Artifact ABCs

Ongoing
4th floor

Country Doctor Museum Medical Education Exhibit

Ongoing
History Collections Reading Room

NC Health History in Images

Ongoing
2nd floor
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Plague of Piracy

Ongoing
2nd floor

Scientists and Their Microscopes

4th Floor Microscope Cabinet

Online Exhibits