Permanent exhibits
Current exhibits
- Nevertheless, She Persisted! Women as Historic Influencers (September 6, 2024 through May 31, 2025)
- Leagues of Their Own: Representing 60 Years of Women's Athletics Achievement (September 6, 2024 through May 31, 2025)
Past exhibits
- Agents of Change: Celebrating Innovation at UH's Centennial (September 27, 2023 through May 31, 2024)
- The Hollyfield Foundation Pride Exhibit for the LGBT History Research Collection (June 2023)
- The Beauty of Birds (November 28, 2022 - May 11, 2023)
- Hispanic Theater in the United States: Selections from the Dr. Nicolás Kanellos Hispanic Theatre Collection, Arte Público Press, and the University of Houston Libraries (Spring - Fall 2023)
- Dorothy Hood, The Edge of Being (November 2021 - March 2023)
- 100 Years of Progress: Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (Fall 2020-Fall 2021)
- Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh: Index of the Disappeared (January 21-March 14, 2020)
- Blacker than a Thousand Midnights: Picturing the Black Spirit in Harlem Renaissance Graphic Arts (January 14-March 27, 2020)
- Houston Beyond Convention: The Photography of Ben Desoto, 1980-present (January 14, 2019-January 2020)
- TX Women, Music, and Feminism (November 18-22, 2019)
- "I AM A MAN": Photographs by Dr. Ernest C. Withers (Fall 2019)
- Brothers in Rhyme: Fat Pat, Big Hawk, and the Screwed Up Click (September 10-December 14, 2018)
- Image and Imagination: The Art of Valentin Gertsman (November 15, 2017-March 2018)
- The Spirit of Houston: A Retrospective 40 Years in the Making (November 5, 2017-March 2018)
- The Art of Architecture: Drawings by Burdette Keland, Jr. (February-October 2017)
- Storied: The First Ten Years of the Creative Writing Program (August 22, 2016-January 2, 2017)
- Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature (January 18-July 18, 2016)
- Houston History: Archives, Magazine, and Oral History (June 12-December 18, 2015)
- Nina Vance and the Alley Theatre: A Life's Work (October 24, 2014-May 8, 2015)
- LGBTQI Literature: Celebrated Classics and Contemporary Works (June 20-September 26, 2014)
- Frontier Fiesta: The Greatest College Show on Earth (March 18-June 6, 2014)
- Collective HER-story, a Mosaic Masterpiece: Exploring the Carey C. Shuart Women's Archive (October 14, 2013-March 2, 2014)
- Houston's Environmental Past (March 25-September 20, 2013)
- Sacra et Profana: Music in Medieval Manuscripts (October 10, 2012-February 8, 2013)
- DJ Screw and the Rise of Houston Hip Hop (March 19-September 21, 2012)
- In Defense of My People: Alonso S. Perales and the Development of Mexican-American Public Intellectuals (December 21, 2011-March 1, 2012)
- Foley's Department Store: Houston's Community Partner, 1900-2005 (March 21-September 21, 2011)