During the late 1800s, mental health care was a dark and often terrifying world hidden behind the walls of asylums. Few dared ...

Exhibitions marking the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, as well as the histories of women institutionalized in 19th-century asylums will open in the UB Anderson Gallery on Sept. 12. “Eighty-Six ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

UB Art Galleries is asking Buffalo residents for help in collecting and documenting personal mementos from women who were once confined to Buffalo State Asylum. Many of us have heard stories of ...