Digital exhibitions
We organise several physical exhibitions as well as in digital form by our own or in collaboration with university faculties or other cultural institutions.
China Exhibition
Driven by missionary zeal, many Jesuits embarked on a risky journey to the East – and quite a few of them did not survive the hazardous ocean journey. These missionaries managed to establish a real dialogue on religion, philosophy and science with the oft well-educated upper echelons of Chinese society. Read More
Day Zero / Ground Zero Cape Town
A story about the Liesbeek river in Cape Town, South Africa, about its colonial past and its Anthropocene future. As a kind of a historical interlocuter, we 'walk' the river with Peter Kolb (1675–1726), the first known scientific explorer of the Cape of Good Hope. Read More
Once Upon a Law: the Grimm Brothers’ stories, language, and legal culture
Highlighting the relationship between the stories of the Brothers Grimm and their lesser-known works about language and law. With focus on the perspective of the Grimm brothers as legal scholars, and through that lens, underlying legal customs become visible in the themes of their most famous fairy tales. Read More
Physical exhibitions
Exhibition: Sexology and Self-Help in the 1930s
An exhibition at Randwyck Library on Dutch gynecologist and sexologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873–1937). A pioneer of modern sexology, Van de Velde argued that eroticism was not a moral danger but the foundation of a healthy marriage. His famous works, including Ideal Marriage (1926) and The Ideal Woman (1933), offered practical advice on intimacy, sexual variation, and contraception, written in an open yet refined style that made them accessible to a wide audience.
Location: Randwyck Library, Universiteitssingel 50
13 October 2025 – 13 September 2026 | Mo – Fr 08.30 – 17.00 uur