The fall 2024 Main Library Gallery exhibition, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, is now available to view online.
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The virtual tour is a self-paced journey through the exhibition. It features 360° photos of the Main Library Gallery, which allow the viewer to move from area to area. The exhibit text and the items on display are clickable, meaning transcripts and close-up views of many objects are available along with information from curator Dr. Jennifer Sterling.
To read about the specific items on display in the Main Library Gallery for Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, check out the exhibition guide online. To see the virtual version of this exhibit in full screen, click the full screen icon in the lower right corner of the tour preview above, or visit the exhibit here.
More about this exhibit:
From Nile Kinnick to Caitlin Clark and Duke Slater to Christine Grant, Hawkeyes have been breaking records, navigating barriers, and making sports history since the University of Iowa’s first teams emerged in the late 1800s.
Curated by Dr. Jennifer Sterling, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories examines the role sports has played at Iowa throughout the changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics and explores Iowa’s first men’s and women’s teams at the turn of the 20th century, the emergence of big-time men’s sports in the mid-1900s, and the rise of women athletes from the 1970s onward.
Thank you to the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums for partnering with the Main Library Gallery to make this virtual experience available.