Rotating Exhibits
An Engine of Inquiry and Change: The UCSF Library
On view through March 2017, this exhibit celebrates 150 years of growth, evolution, and user-centered service at the UCSF Library. Discover how the collection grew from less than 2,000 volumes into one of the world’s preeminent health sciences libraries.
View rare books and medical artifacts from the Archives and Special Collections and learn about exciting, technologically-advanced tools for the post-digital age. And don’t forget to “catalog” your Library memories and ideas for the future at our interactive card catalog display!
Presented by UCSF Archives and Special Collections.
Main floor, Library hours.
Fighting Measles and Cholera with Care and Prayer: Japanese Prints
Exhibits in the Parnassus Campus Library’s first floor gallery present a rotating selection of Japanese woodblock prints and scrolls from UCSF’s East Asian Collection.
Fighting Measles and Cholera with Care and Prayer, the exhibit currently on view, features nineteenth-century hashika-e (measles pictures). These prints served as guides to combat this disease. Many of them include a holly leaf (tarayō) believed to contain protective powers as well as recommendations for auspicious diet and and explanations how to persuade the measles kami (“Shinto term for god, divinity”) to leave.
These charms when attached to a door or screen were supposed to protect the house and its inhabitants against measles
Please enjoy these treasures from our East Asian Collection. View the entire collection of Japanese woodblock prints.
Presented by UCSF Archives and Special Collections.
Permanent Exhibits
2nd Floor
- Azuma nishiki e Yamato fūzoku: Shokō gata otanjō shiki / Japanese costumes in Eastern brocade: Birth ceremony of receiving visits from other families
Kobayashi, Ikuhide, fl. 1868-1887 1889 - Uo-zukushi: Koi / A Shoal of Fishes: Carp
Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 1832 - Uo-zukushi: Ayu / A Shoal of Fishes: Sweetfish (trout)
Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 1832 - Kinrai ryūkō kabuki uwasa Kenbutsu no hara / Internal bodily functions dramatized by popular kabuki actors
Unknown artist, Late 19th century - Senaka ni hara kodomo asobi / Back and abdomen, children’s games
Unknown artist, Late 19th century - Gotai wagō shinsai no kyō-kun / Teaching on harmonious body and mind
Utagawa, Yoshikatsu, fl. 1844-1859 1850
Main (3rd) Floor
- Georges Mathieu, Arrivee De Bohemod, 1957
- Helaman Ferguson, Umbilic Torus NC, 1988
- Fred Reichman, Little Summer Music with Book and Chair, 1990
- R.C. Gorman, Natoma, 1985
- Portrait of Julius R. Krevans, M.D.
- Bill Woodrow, Regardless of History, 2000
- Robert Cremean, Bust of R. de la V., 1964
- Sarah Sze, The Distance Where Magnets Pull, 2011
4th Floor
- Georges Mathieu, Arrivee De Bohemod, 1957
- Helaman Ferguson, Umbilic Torus NC, 1988
- Fred Reichman, Little Summer Music with Book and Chair, 1990
- R.C. Gorman, Natoma, 1985
- Portrait of Julius R. Krevans, M.D.
- Bill Woodrow, Regardless of History, 2000
- Robert Cremean, Bust of R. de la V., 1964
- Sarah Sze, The Distance Where Magnets Pull, 2011
5th Floor - Lange Room & Terrace
- Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, image? provenance?
- Sunbather sculpture, image? provenance?