RIT Museum

The RIT Museum provides a dedicated space for exhibits that allow for more in-depth explorations of RIT’s rich history and an opportunity to present exhibitions drawn from RIT/NTID’s unique Deaf Studies Archive as well as the University Art Collection. Exhibits change every six months. Visit often and enrich your understanding of the university’s past and learn about these special collections!

Location: Third floor, The Wallace Center
Open the same hours as The Wallace Center

Currently at the museum:

RIT Archive Collections: Reporter magazines: years of facts and fun

This exhibition is a selection of Reporter magazine features and covers chosen by the student staff of the RIT Archive Collections which holds the entire collection of RIT Reporter magazines dating back to 1951.

The RIT Reporter began in 1951 as a bi-weekly alumni publication to replace the quarterly Alumni Mirror in an effort to deliver news more frequently. The goal of the RIT Reporter was to include activities of students, the Institute, and the alumni. Also in publication at the time, was the SPRIT (Student Paper of RIT) which quickly merged with theRIT Reporter, making it the main source for news to the RIT communities.

One of the Reporters’ special issues students anxiously await each year is the April Fools issue, first created in 1958. Over the decades, the Reporter staff has produced creative and controversial issues most commonly known as the Distorter.