Special Collections
There are universities and museums around the world that collect and study pop-up
and movable books. Take the time to explore these sites in full. They
have much to offer. Here is a blogger, Whitney Trettien, who has studied digital images and found these early anatomical flap books.
Early movable books from the collection of book dealer, JoAnn Reisler. Books shown at The Movable Book Society 2008 Conference
Picturing Childhood 1550-1990-the UCLA Special Collections, a wonderful history and more!
"Pop-up and Movable Books A Tour Through Their History" at the University of North Texas. It's animated!
AbeCedarium An Exhibit of Alphabet Books
LaCosmographia with a volvelle similar to the one seen in Sacrobosco's Sphaera.
The University of Delaware collection of movable books.
Ann Montanaro, president and founder of the Movable Book Society, mounted this exhibition at Rutgers University, NJ, from her own collection.
"Pop Goes the Page! Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection at the University of Virginia
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts
from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection-November
17, 2009-April 18, 2010. Be sure to look at The Book of Secrets with very
early volvelles.
A French website totally devoted to pop-ups! ooh-la-la!
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine now houses the Harold Goralnick [MBS member] collection of about 1800 pop-up books. In 2011, a major exhibition was mounted.