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Exhibits: Past

Past Temporary Exhibits are archived in date order. Exhibits are archived starting in 1992 when the Governance was transferred to the private, non-profit Foundation.

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2011
American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists' Colony - 9/24/11 - 1/29/12
Andrew Orth: Directing Hollywood - 9/17/11 - 1/22/12
Moneyville - 10/1/11 - 12/31/11
Recent Acquisitions - 7/9/11 - 9/11/11
Berks Art Alliance 34th Annual Open Juried Exhibition - 7/2/11 - 9/4/11
American Landscapes: Works on Paper from our Permanent Collection - 2/26/11 - 7/7/11
The World of Sea Shells: Jewels of the Ocean - 1/29/11 - 6/5/11
American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting - 2/19/11 - 6/5/11

2010-2011
Nefrina's World - 1/16/10 - 12/31/11
Women Artists - 9/4/10 - 1/29/11
Tiffany Lamps: Articles of Utility, Objects of Art - 10/9/10 - 1/23/11
Eadweard Muybridge & Harold Edgerton: Photographing Motion - 10/16/10 - 1/16/11

2010
A Cultural Celebration: Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans from a Berks County Collection - 6/12/10 - 9/26/10
Jun Kaneko - 6/26/10 - 9/5/10
The Prints of Jacques Callot - 3/13/10 - 8/15/10
Bob the Builder™ - Project: Build It - 3/27/10 - 5/23/10
Desolate Places, Crowded Spaces - The Photography of Anne Heimann - 2/19/10 - 4/18/10

2009-2010
The Magic of Hollywood: The Gene London Costume Collection - 10/3/09 - 4/4/10
Berks County Views - 11/14/09 - 3/7/10

2009
Old Works in a New Light: Favorites from the Permanent Collection – 4/11/09 - 6/21/09
Dinosaurs of the Deep: Savage Ancient Seas – 3/28/09 - 6/28/09
Berks Art Alliance 32nd Annual Open Juried Art Exhibition – 7/12/09 - 9/6/09
Donations from the Kathryn M. Klingeman Collection – 6/6/09 - 11/8/09
From Raw to Refined: The Creative Path of Master Craftsmen of the Pennsylvania Guild – 7/18/09 - 10/31/09

2008-2009
Masters of American Photography – 9/6/08 - 5/3/09
Born to be Wild – Adventures in the Art of Motorcycle Design – 10/3/08 - 3/8/09
Marshes: The Disappearing Edens – 12/13/08 - 3/15/09

2008
Sea Turtles – Older than Dinosaurs – 1/12/08 - 4/27/08
Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook – 2/9/08 - 6/15/08
The Greatest Bird Artists: John James Audubon and Earl Poole – 2/16/08 - 6/6/08
Lenape: The Original People – 5/17/08 - 9/14/08
Offspring of the Winds: The Horse in Art and Imagination – 7/12/08 - 9/7/08

2007-2008
Pre-Columbian Art from the Luther W. Brady Collection – 10/13/07 - 3/16/08

2007
Pastoral: Quiet Pleasures of the Landscape – 1/27/07 - 4/1/2007
The Nature of Holography – 2/3/07 - 4/29/07
Recent Acquisitions – 2/10/07 - 6/17/07
Contemporary Latin American Folk Art – 4/14/07 - 7/15/07
Holography 2 – 5/5/07 - 6/17/07
Zing: Science that Spins, Bounces, and Flies! – 6/30/07 - 9/30/07
Engaging Hollywood – the photography of andrew orth – 7/14/07 - 9/23/07
Berks Art Alliance Juried Art Exhibition – 8/5/2007 - 9/2/07
Degas and the Art of Japan – 9/29/07 - 12/30/07

2006-2007
In Nature's Embrace: The World of Harry Bertoia – 9/16/06 - 1/7/07
Venice and Rome: New Photographs by Linda Adelstein – 10/28/06 - 1/21/07
Berks Now: Lynn Krizan – 10/28/06 - 1/21/07

2005-2006
Insects Illuminated: Photographs, Prints, and Drawings by Evan Summer – 9/17/2005 - 1/8/06
Robotics – 1/20/06 - 5/21/06
Keith Haring: Journey of the Radiant Baby – 2/18/06 - 8/6/06
Berks Now: Edward Terrell – 2/4/06 - 4/9/06
Toolville – 6/3/06 - 9/10/06
PostSecret – 6/17/06 - 10/8/06
Cool Moves: The Artistry of Motion – 10/1/06 - 12/31/06

2005
Berks Now: Jase Clark – 3/12/05 - 4/17/05
Samuel L. Schmucker: The Golden Age of Postcards – 1/22/05 - 5/30/05
Berks Now: Linda Heberling – 5/8/05 - 6/12/05
Influenced by Birds - Berks County Birding Giants and Their Legacy – 4/2/05 - 8/28/05
African Art from the Dersh Family Collection – 1/29/05 - 9/5/05
28th Annual Berks Art Alliance Open Juried Exhibition – 6/19/05 - 9/5/05

2004-2005
The Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci – 11/27/04 - 1/2/05
Places Near and Far: Award Winning Original Art from Favorite Children's Books – 9/26/04 - 1/16/05
Berks Now: Marilyn Fox – 11/20/04 - 2/6/05
Exploring the Deep – 10/10/04 - 3/13/05
Pennsylvania Beauty – 9/18/04 -5/1/05

2004
Contemporary African-American Artists
Enduring Beauty: Treasures of the Reading Public Museum – 1/24/04 - 4/11/04
Gems & Minerals...Nature's Underground Treasures – 1/31/04 - 4/18/04
Berks Now: Kristen Tabone Woodward – 5/15/04 - 8/1/04
Venice Observed: Images of the Paradise of Cities – 5/23/04 - 9/5/04
Dale Chihuly at the Reading Public Museum: A Celebration in Glass – 5/23/04 - 9/12/04
Crime Lab Detectives – 5/28/04 - 9/12/04
N.C. Wyeth Patriotic Paintings of the American Revolution and the Civil War – 6/26/04 - 9/5/04
Berks Now: Yadira Torres – 8/14/04 - 10/24/04
Oxymorons: Absurdly Logical Quilts – 9/26/04 - 11/14/04

2003-2004
100 Years of Toys... the art, the history, the magic! – 10/11/03 - 1/4/04
Rembrandt, Goya, and Whistler: Treasures from the Print Collection of the Reading Public Museum – 12/20/03 - 4/11/04

2003
Selected Train Relics from the Collection of Carter Reese – 1/11/03 - 4/13/03
Dark Passages: The Art of David Lynch – 1/25/03 - 4/20/03
All the Art in Me: In Search of Horace Pippin – 2/1/03 - 4/20/03
The Dinosaur Hunter – 5/10/03 - 9/23/03
DINOSAURS! – 5/23/03 - 9/23/03
I Set Out Alone: John James Audubon in the Mid-Atlantic – 5/10/03 - 7/27/03
Berks Art Alliance 26th Annual Juried Exhibit – 8/9/03 - 9/28/03
Mexico Illuminated/Iluminado – 10/4/03 - 11/16/03

2002-2003
Simply Functional. Simply Art. Objects of Early PA Life from the 18th to 20th Century from the Permanent Collection – 4/20/02 to 3/16/03
TRAINS! – 8/4/02 – 4/13/03
The Essence of Train Memorabilia – 10/26/02 to 1/19/03
Train Paintings by James L. Holton – 11/2/02 to 1/19/03

2002
Japanese Screens from the Permanent Collection – 1/5/02 - 3/31/02
The Art of Indo-China from the Permanent Collection – 1/5/02 - 3/31/02
...findings alter beliefs: the vietnam experience by Robert Faragher – 1/12/02 - 3/31/02
The Mullen Family Collection of Southeast Asian Earthenwares from the Neolithic Period to the 19th Century – 1/19/02 - 3/31/02
Reading: The Way We Were - Historical Paintings by John Dusko – 3/2/02 - 7/7/02
Life on the Edge, Photographs by Anne Heimann – 4/7/02 - 7/7/02
Berks County, Pennsylvania: Art in Place – 4/13/02 - 7/7/02
Jasper Kemp Elmer: Watercolors by a Berks County Romantic – 4/13/02 - 7/7/02
The Impressionist Palette – 7/13/02 - 8/25/02
Berks Art Alliance 25th Annual Juried Exhibition – 7/28/02 - 9/2/02
Latin American Artist Photographers from Collection of Lehigh University – 9/7/02 - 10/20/02
Carol Kreeger Davidson: The Abstract Figure – 9/14/02 - 12/29/02

2001-2002
Peruvian Textiles from the Permanent Collection – 9/15/01 - 1/13/02
Contemporary Native Peruvian Art from the Collection of Dr. Fredericka Heller – 9/15/01 - 1/13/02
The Awesome Aquifer Adventure – 9/16/01 - 3/24/02
Peruvian Highlands Photographs by Charles Nissly – 9/22/01 - 1/6/02
Peruvian Perspectives: Watercolors of the Andes by Armando Freyre from the Collection of Leena and Der Scutt – 9/22/01 - 1/6/02

2001
The Clinton Years: Works by Ineke van Werkhoven – 1/20/01 - 4/1/01
Matthew Daub: In the Light, Works en Plein Air – 1/20/01 - 4/1/01
Matthew Daub: In the Shadow of Industry, Watercolors and Drawings of Eastern Pennsylvania – 1/20/01 - 4/1/01
Silver & Pewter from the Permanent Collection – 3/17/01 - 9/16/01
Evan Summer: Landscapes and Nocturnes – 4/14/01 - 6/17/01
Abe Ajay: Constructions and Collages – 4/14/01 - 6/17/01
Recent Acquisitions: Paintings from Russia – 4/20/01 - 5/13/01
BUTTERFLIES!! (Butterflies of Berks County, Mengel’s Butterflies, Butterflies Alive! II) - 5/26/01 - 9/2/01
Painted Florals from the Permanent Collection – 6/22/01 - 9/2/01
Berks Art Alliance 24th Annual Juried Exhibition – 6/30/01 - 8/26/01

2000-2001
Asteroids & Meteorites Planetarium Exhibit – 1/9/00 - 1/7/01
Hopi Art from the Permanent Collection – 9/16/00 - 1/7/01
Hopi: Reflections on the Natural Way – 9/16/00 - 1/7/01
Dan Namingha, Reflections On The Natural Way – 9/16/00 - 1/7/01
Treasured Objects You Saved (T.O.Y.S.) collection of Dr. Ivan Bub – 10/1/00 - 3/18/01

2000
Chemistry is Electric: Electrochemistry’s History and Contributions to Modern Life – 1/9/00 - 6/25/00
Polymers and People from Discovery through Today – 1/9/00 - 6/25/00
American Black Innovators Scientific Inventors – 2/1/00 - 2/29/00
Recent Acquisitions – 3/10/00 - 6/11/00
Robert Pepper, Selected Works of An Englishman Abroad – 3/11/00 - 6/11/00
Portraits from the Collection – 6/24/00 - 9/3/00
When Sculpture Was Sculpture – 6/24/00 - 9/3/00
Berks Art Alliance 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition – 6/25/00 - 8/27/00
ARTHROPODS! – 7/1/00 - 9/24/00

1999-2000
Freeze Frame, The History and Science of Photography – 9/4/99 - 1/2/00
Sterling Strauser: A Modernist Revisited – 11/27/99 - 2/27/00

1999
Rustic Rapture: A Century of America's Byways - 1/23/99 - 3/28/99
Berks Art Alliance 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition – 4/11/99 - 5/25/99
Reflections: Photographs by Jonathan L. Shalter, III – 5/1/99 - 8/29/99
The Many Stages of Hiroshige, Japanese Master Printwork - 6/5/99 - 8/29/99
Recent Acquisitions – 6/5/99 - 8/29/99
Butterflies Alive – 7/3/99 - 8/29/99
The Unexpected, Artists' Ceramics of the 20th Century – 9/11/99 - 11/14/99

1998-1999
Whales – 9/20/95 to 1/1/96
Art for the End of the Century: Art & Technology, Phase 2 – 9/30/95 - 1/1/96
Talking Pictures: The Dawn of Sound – 11/18/95 - 1/28/96

1997-1998
New York Visions – The William Zimmer Gift to the Reading Public Museum – 9/20/97 - 1/4/98
Ben Austrian, Artist Exhibit – 12/5/97 - 2/1/98

1997
Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century – 2/8/97 - 4/27/97
Timeframes – Cooperative Exhibit among the Museum, Albright College and Penn State University Berks Campus – 2/15/97 - 4/20/97
Berks Art Alliance 20th Annual Juried Exhibition – 8/3/97 - 8/31/97
Goddard Space Science Center Exhibit – 9/13/97 - 10/30/97
Buy Recycled Exhibit – 11/17/96 - 12/15/97

1996-1997
Batman Collected – 11/28/96 - 3/30/97

1996
Photographs and Works on Paper - Selections from the Permanent Collection – 1/27/96 - 3/17/96
Saving Endangered Species, Saving Ourselves – Planetarium Exhibit – 2/3/96 - 3/3/96
Home Stories: The Art of Barthosa Nkurumeh – 2/4/96 - 3/1/96
Two Views of Greece: Photographs by Eunice Boscov and Yorghos Kontaxis Photography Exhibit – 3/10/96 - 4/14/96
Reading School District Student Art Show – 3/29/96 - 4/11/96
Reading Collects: A Revelation of Masterworks Local Collections of Art – 5/1/96 - 6/30/96
Levi Mengel – Man, Museum, Vision – 5/15/96 - 9/30/96
Video Festival ’96: New Arts Program Exhibit – 7/13/96 - 9/8/96
Berks Art Alliance 19th Annual Juried Exhibition – 7/20/96 - 9/1/96
Birch Bark Baskets from the Permanent Collection – 7/25/96 - 9/30/96
Portrait of a People of American Indian Photographs from the 1800s – 7/25/96 - 9/30/96
Der Scutt Retrospective – 9/14/96 - 11/10/96
Houdini – 10/2/96 to 11/10/96

1995
Magnum Photographers in Eastern Europe 1945-1990 – 1/21/95 - 3/12/95
Visual Geography – 2/5/95 - 4/2/95
African Americans in Berks: The Congregation in the Community – 2/5/95 - 2/26/95
Tatham Mound: A Time Capsule of Native American History – 3/22/95 - 6/4/95
Streamlined Design: Aspects of Art Deco from the Permanent Collection and Community – 3/26/95 - 5/21/95
Reading School District Student Art Show – 5/27/95 - 6/7/95
American Indian Beadwork: Creators of Pattern from the Permanent Collection – 6/7/95 - 9/3/95
19th & Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings from the Permanent Collection – 6/14/95 - 7/2/95
Art for the End of the Century: Art & Technology, Phase 1 – 7/22/95 - 9/29/95

1994-1995
Coring Beneath the Sea – 10/3/94 - 8/27/95
Light & Color – 11/30/94 - 1/29/95
Berks Art Alliance 18th Annual Juried Exhibition – 12/4/94 - 1/8/95

1994
Intimate Perceptions: Aesthetic Considerations of Photography through the Microscope and Underwater – 1/22/94 - 3/13/94
The Black Experience in America – from the Permanent Collection – 2/1/94 - 2/28/94
Diversity Endangered: Poster Exhibit – 3/26/94 - 7/3/94
Brigitta Bertoia Picture Blankets – 3/26/94 - 5/22/94
Looking for Leonardo: Naïve and Folk Art Collected in the United States by Bates and Isabel Lowry – 3/26/94 - 5/22/94
Reading School District Student Art Show – 5/29/94 - 6/10/94
Structures Exhibit – 6/19/94 - 10/2/94
Animals as Architects – 6/19/94 - 10/2/94
Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection – 6/26/94 - 8/21/94
Robert Murray Retrospective – 9/11/94 - 11/20/94

1993-1994
Berks County Art Alliance 17th Annual Juried Exhibition – 12/4/93 - 1/9/94

1993
St. Petersburg Realism: The Unbroken Russian Tradition – 3/13/93 - 5/9/93
Bart Walter, Sculptor Exhibit – 4/15/93 - 5/16/93
Reading School District Student Art Show – 4/18/93 - 5/2/93
Argentine Textiles: Exploring the Boundaries Between Craft and Art – 5/22/93 - 8/1/93
Liliana Porter: A Retrospective of Graphic Art, 1968-1993 – 5/22/93 - 8/1/93
Peter Busa: Fifty Years of Painting – 9/18/93 - 11/14/93

1992-1993
Dinosaurs Alive! – 11/14/92 - 1/31/93
Reginald Case: Hollywood without Politics – 12/19/92 - 2/28/93