UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State All-Sports Museum is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit entitled The Way I Saw It: A Photography Retrospective. The exhibit will be located in the Museum’s second-floor special exhibition gallery and will run from December 17, 2025 through August 1, 2027.
The Way I Saw It celebrates the work of Penn State alumnus Pat Little, who started out with The Daily Collegian and spent over three decades as a photojournalist with the Centre Daily Times, Associated Press, and Reuters. Starting from one million photo negatives then narrowed down to a set of 5000 photographs, the exhibit presents a final collection of 100 unique and powerful images of Penn State athletes, coaches, venues, and fans, shot between 1977 and 2005.
Longtime Nittany Lions fans will see several legendary faces and moments they remember, like Todd Blackledge and Suzie McConnell – but The Way I Saw It will also give visitors the opportunity to experience many other stories and moments they may not have been present to witness firsthand: images from inside practice facilities and at field level, during impossible weather conditions, and even from the midst of active construction sites.
The exhibit includes special sections devoted to images of Penn State’s treasured gameday student participants: the Blue Band, the Cheerleaders and Lionettes, and the Nittany Lion mascot.
Additional display cases present several of Pat’s magazine cover photos, the actual camera equipment he used to shoot most of the images on display, and the story of his first photograph to appear in Sports Illustrated.
Opened in 2002, the Penn State All-Sports Museum is located at the southwest corner of Beaver Stadium and honors the achievements of the men and women who have built the proud tradition of Penn State intercollegiate athletics. The museum is open Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. through Dec. 21, reopening Jan. 9 and continuing from January through mid-March. Admission is by suggested donation of $8 for adults and $5 for children, seniors and students.