Exhibits

Learn about Chamberlain Field, home field to the Mocs football team for nearly 90 years from 1908 to 1997.

On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson was lynched by a mob for an alleged rape crime on the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This exhibit explores the role of the local media in criminalizing Ed Johnson and inciting the violence that led to his murder.

The George and Louise Patten collection of Salem Hyde papers and cultural artifacts provides opportunity for critical analysis of ownership and cultural appropriation of pre-Columbian material culture. Images from Hyde’s travels throughout Latin America and compelling interviews with scholars featured in this exhibition make sense of the artifacts appropriated by Hyde in 1969, and help us interpret their significance from a post-colonial perspective that seeks to acknowledge, respect, and credit the original creators.

This exhibit is but a small view into the multi-faceted life of Robert Sparks Walker, presenting personal correspondence, photographs, as well as original poetry and manuscripts that exemplify the effect of his naturalist beliefs on his writing and the Chattanooga community.