The Folger Library

First Folio Tour Cities Announced

The Folger is sending one of the world's most famous books on tour next year.

The first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays, known as the First Folio, was published in 1623, and the Folger is sending one from its collection of 82 copies (the world's largest collection of First Folios) to all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

The tour, First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, has been designed in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association.

More details about the tour are yet to come, but the cities have been announced and are as follows:

• Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
• Juneau, Alaska: Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museums
• Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona
• Conway, Arkansas: University of Central Arkansas with Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre
• San Diego, California: The Old Globe with San Diego Public Library
• Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Boulder
• Storrs, Connecticut: University of Connecticut
• Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University
• Wilmington, Delaware: University of Delaware
• Miami, Florida: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
• Atlanta, Georgia: Emory University
• Honolulu, Hawaii: Kapiolani Community College
• Boise, Idaho: Alberstons Library, Boise State University
• Libertyville, Illinois: Lake County Discovery Museum
• Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame
• Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Libraries
• Manhattan, Kansas: Kansas State University
• Louisville, Kentucky: Frazier History Museum
• New Orleans, Louisiana: Tulane University
• Portland, Maine: Portland Public Library
• Annapolis, Maryland: St. John’s College
• Amherst, Massachusetts: Amherst College
• Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University with the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Detroit Public Library
• Duluth, Minnesota.: University of Minnesota
• Oxford, Mississippi: University of Mississippi
• Kansas City, Missouri: Kansas City Public Library
• Missoula, Montana: University of Montana
• Omaha, Nebraska: The Durham Museum
• Reno, Nevada: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
• Manchester, New Hampshire: Currier Museum of Art
• Madison, New Jersey: Drew University and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
• Santa Fe, New Mexico: New Mexico Museum of Art
• New York, New York: New-York Historical Society
• Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of History
• Bismarck, North Dakota: State Historical Society of North Dakota
• Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Public Library
• Norman, Oklahoma: The Sam Noble Museum
• Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon
• Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania: Elizabethtown College
• Gurabo, Puerto Rico: Universidad del Turabo
• Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University
• Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Libraries
• Vermillion, South Dakota: University of South Dakota and the National Music Museum
• Nashville, Tennessee: The Parthenon
• College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University
• Salt Lake City, Utah: Salt Lake City Public Library
• Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College
• Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia
• Seattle, Washington: The Seattle Public Library
• Wheeling, West Virginia: Oglebay Park
• Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Cheyenne, Wyoming: Wyoming State Museum

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor, and by the support of Vinton and Sigrid Cerf and the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation.

March 12, 2015

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