Support UMBC Special Collections This year marks the 50th anniversary of UMBC Special Collections! We’re asking for your support in raising $5,000 in honor of an amazing 50 years and in anticipation of all we can accomplish together in the future. Your donations to the UMBC Foundation support our mission to preserve our collections and make them accessible to Retrievers and researchers across the globe in our Reading Room, during class visits, in our digital collections, and through exhibits.
Our mission The Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County collects, preserves, and makes accessible scholarly collections of materials that are original, rare, unique, fragile, historical, and archival. Our collections and staff support UMBC’s research and educational mission and its dedication to cultural and ethnic diversity, social responsibility and lifelong learning. Highlights of our collections include photography, the history of the biological sciences, the Baltimore Sun newspaper, science fiction literature and popular culture, alternative presses and radical literature, parapsychology, UMBC history and records, and Maryland history. Find out more about UMBC Special Collections on our website.
All contributions are administered by the UMBC Foundation, Inc., for the benefit of UMBC.