The Traveler's Guide to Influence and Exchange

What knowledge do we impart to others as we carry goods and customs with us throughout our travels? With what new knowledge do we return home? Across the globe and over the centuries, immigrants, adventurers, and peddlers have exchanged ideas and objects, sharing skills and integrating cultures. This exhibit showcases a few of the many instances in which a traveler left their mark on an alien world and explores the ways in which that world experienced increasing globalization. Consider the reciprocity and complexity of cultural exchange evident in the stories of the artifacts below.