Activities

Apply for your security clearance for entry to the Library Laboratory—where you can go to wonder and investigate!

You build it with brick, stone, or bookshelf pattern blocks!

Choose your own adventure! Is your character dancing, running, playing? You decide, you design it.

Is your dragon friendly or vile? You choose the characteristics when you create this fun paper craft!

Paper, glue, and crayons bring a mythical creature to life for endless storytelling fun!

Summon your superpowers with these wearable cuffs.
Posts

Batter UP! It's baseball time in Tennessee!
Nothing says spring like the crack of the bat. Here in East Tennessee, this spring is all about baseball. In anticipation of the opening of the ballpark, we are celebrating the national pastime with an exhibition and some programs. Plus, we have some suggested reading for your bedside table!

A Holiday Season in Knoxville Two Hundred Years Ago
One hundred years ago, people were curious about Christmases of the past, too. By the 1920s, Isabella Cowan Rhea (1849-1935) had lived in downtown Knoxville for three quarters of a century, and her family had been in downtown since frontier times.