Exhibits

What's On

Visitors Center Galleries

The Visitors Center uses three permanent galleries to tell the story of May 4.

• In Gallery 1, visitors explore the cultural shift of the 1960s that set the stage for the events of May 4.
• Gallery 2 provides a map and photographs illustrating the weekend leading up to Monday May 4, 1970. The theater features a timeline, photographs, and 10-minute film narrating the protest-turned-shooting.
• Gallery 3 highlights local and national reactions, consequences, and impacts of the May 4 shooting.

Physical exhibits available in Taylor Hall

• Temporary exhibits rotate in the Reflections Gallery, which is across the hall from the Visitors Center.
• Mapping May 4 is a permanent interactive exhibit in the hallway outside of the Visitors Center. Visitors explore a map of the Kent State campus guided by oral histories and memories of students and faculty who were there on the day of the shooting. 
• Armed with Our Voices is a kiosk exhibit in the M4VC Reflections Gallery. Presented by the Wick Poetry Center, it is an interactive poem builder that takes visitors through a guided writing exercise using interviews about May 4 and student activism.

Online exhibits             Past exhibits