Library Exhibitions

Learn more about UCL Library Services exhibitions, including our annual Main Library exhibition and Student Centre displays. All exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Exhibit item, drawing of children playing

UCL Main Library

‘I Planted a Seed’: Childhood, nature and creativity.
Now closed

UCL Student Centre

Power in Prejudice: Contesting the pseudoscience of superiority.
Open February - December 2025.

Queen Square Library

Library displays drawn from the Queen Square Archives that provide access to the historical records of the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Maida Vale Hospital.

UCL East Culture Lab: Patterns

From 2025 – 2027 the Culture Lab is exploring the concept of patterns. Through a series of rotating co-produced exhibitions and workshops the Culture Lab will explore how patterns are created and understood and can create meaning and identity. The exhibition includes reproductions of items from UCL's rare books, archives and records collections.

Generation UCL: 200 years of student life in London

Now closed: Octagon Gallery: Generation UCL

This exhibition placed students at the heart of this 200-year history. It also marked 130 years since the formation of what became Students’ Union UCL, now one of the largest student-led organisations in the world. On display were items from UCL Special Collections, Students' Union UCL and UCL Museums, each of which shed light on an aspect of UCL student life.

Montage of front covers of The Drummer, a newspaper from 1967 until 1979

Previous Library Services Exhibitions

Archive of themed exhibitions hosted in the Main Library and Student Centre at UCL.