Family Weekend: Special Collections Exhibition Tour

All are invited to attend!

Visit Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center for a tour of the Fall 2024 exhibition, Destroy All Monsters: Developments in Fandom and Participatory Culture.

The tour will be provided by Danny Sarmiento, Curator of 20th Century to Present, who will walk through highlights from the exhibition and answer questions.

About the exhibition: Fans have changed radically over the past century from mere consumers of media to active participants in media creation. Destroy All Monsters explores how fan bases from genres such as literature, film, and music have engaged with the object of their fandom by copying it, remixing it, or dismantling it altogether to make something new. The complex history of creative expression in fandom is represented in the exhibition by a variety of materials, ranging from Sci-fi fan letters to punk fanzines to photographs of cosplayers and conventioneers. While by no means a comprehensive history of fandom, the exhibition illustrates the legacy of fan participation, broadly, and recognizes the contributions of the individual fan.