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