Special exhibit viewing and scavenger hunts for all ages Saturday, July 20, 2019 from 9:00am-12:00pm. Apollo in the Archives: Selections from the Neil A. Armstrong papers currently on display. Visit the Facilities and Buildings Historic Database to learn more about history of the West Lafayette campus.
Collecting Areas
Collecting Areas
Preserving the history of flight and space exploration as experienced by Purdue University alumni, educators, and researchers in engineering, aeronautics, and astronautics.
Primary source materials documenting the history of psychedelic medicine. The collections illustrate how psychedelic research in the United States was carried out and facilitated (particularly from the 1950s to the 1970s), how doctors administered these substances, how patients responded to these treatments, how policy and culture affected the research, and how this area of study has been slowly emerging as a valid form of inquiry and a several-decades long period of dormancy.
Documenting the pioneering women who helped shape Purdue and Indiana history.
News
- Open House for “Apollo in the Archives: Armstrong Papers” Exhibit Set for July 19
- 1903 Wright Flyer Fabric Lands at Purdue Archives
- New Purdue Archives Online Exhibit Aims to Expand Overlooked Areas of Purdue History
- Bringing the Archives to Life
- A Closer Look at Neil Armstrong’s Giant Leaps through New Apollo Exhibition