News and Events

New exhibition Roaring in Secret opened November 16, 2024. Currently on exhibit in the Old Library Lower Gallery.

Past events

May 9 - September 27, 2019 "Postcard Vacations": The Many Faces of Travel and Leisure behind the Berlin Wall" (in the F. H. Green Library)

Temporary exhibit of postcards, brochures, souvenirs, and archival photos from 1951 to 1989, featuring the marketing and advertising of tourism in the context of communism.  Curated by Dr. Rossitza Ohridska-Olson, Sofia, Bulgaria.

April 26- June 1, 2019  "Witnesses of Stone: Monuments of the Socialist Pat in Bulgaria" (in the F. H. Green Library)
Temporary exhibit curated by Dr. Nikolai Vukov from the Museum of Ethnology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria.  

Michael Di Giovine UNWTO Speech, 'Innovation: Potential or Pariah for Sustainable Heritage Tourism?'

Museum Director Michael A. Di Giovine gave the keynote address “Innovation: Potential or Pariah for Sustainable Heritage Tourism” at the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s 40th Plenary Meeting of Affiliate Members in Hamedan, Iran, November 12, 2018. An expert on pilgrimage and heritage, Di Giovine also ran a workshop with Dr. Mohamad Sharifi, Isfahan University, on religious tourism for Iranian and international attendees.

The Quad's Making of an Exhibit features students working tirelessly to bring us the Museum's of  exhibit on Earth Day at 50. 

Student co-curator Emily Rodden published an article on the high-profile trail of Borderlinks volunteers and her work on the Human Rights in Latin America exhibit featuring artifacts found in the Sonoran desert at the US-Mexico border. 

West Chester Living magazine and Chadds Ford Neighbors magazine featured a review of Rwanda Nziza: Beautiful Rwanda in its March edition !

The Alumni Weekend Museum gala for the opening of the Rwanda Nziza: Beautiful Rwanda exhibit was reviewed by the Daily Local.