Announcement from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Enigmas, Conundrums, and Baffling Things:
The Lilly Library Opens an Exhibition of the Slocum Puzzle Collection

An autumn exhibition of mechanical puzzles from the renowned Slocum Puzzle 
Foundation Collection comes to the Lilly Library at Indiana University 
Bloomington, offering visitors the opportunity to view and attempt to 
solve some of the most enigmatic and beautifully crafted puzzles in the 
world. The exhibition opens Thursday October 11 and closes Tuesday December 
18, 2001.

Painstakingly selected from a collection of over 27,000 puzzles of every 
imaginable shape, size, construction, and genre, this exhibition features 
a wide range of puzzles from the Slocum Puzzle Foundation Collection 
representing the varied life of puzzles throughout human history.

Ranging from such enormous twentieth century commercial successes as Rubik's 
Cube to some of the world's rarest and most precious Chinese tangrams, the 
Slocum Puzzle Collection provides an incomparably rich point of entry to 
the study of puzzles in their various historical, social, educational, 
scientific, intellectual, and philosophical dimensions.

This remarkable exhibit provides an instructive and hands-on counterpart 
to the Lilly Libraries major exhibition, Math! The History of Mathematics 
in Science and Literature.

The Lilly Library is located at 1200 E. Seventh Street on the Indiana 
University campus in Bloomington, Indiana. The Library's hours are 
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Friday; 
and 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Saturday. Free and open to the public. The Lilly 
Library is a part of the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries.