About the Gallery

The Gallery at the Kislak Center celebrates the vision, passion, and generosity of Jay I. Kislak, whose landmark gift to the University of Miami and Miami Dade College preserves an extraordinary narrative of the Americas and its many cultures.

The Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Early Americas, Exploration and Navigation has transformed the University of Miami and its Libraries. The Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Open New Worlds: A Journey Through the Kislak Collection*, features nearly 200 items from the Kislak Collection. The exquisite assembly of rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and artifacts conveys a multifaceted history of the Americas, hemispheric cultural encounters, and global exploration beginning with Native American cultures and extending to modern times. The exhibit also serves as a window into the larger array of primary sources available in Special Collections.

 
* Open New Worlds: A Journey Through the Kislak Collection
Published on May 2, 2019

Exhibition highlights brochure by Arthur Dunkelman, Director and Curator, Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Published on the occasion of the May 2, 2019, opening of the exhibition “Open New Worlds: A Journey through the Kislak Collection” at the Gallery at the Kislak Center, University of Miami Otto G. Richter Library.