Exhibitions

Information about themed exhibitions in the Main Library which include material from UCL Special Collections, as well as temporary and permanent exhibitions held at other UCL Libraries and elsewhere.

UCL Library Services has extensive archives, rare books, manuscripts, personal papers, historical records and artefacts across a range of subjects. Each year there are themed exhibitions in the Main Library that draw particularly on highlights from UCL Special Collections. There are also both temporary and permanent exhibitions at other UCL libraries. On occasion, the libraries arrange exhibitions at alternative UCL and external locations too.

Current exhibition

"Dangers and Delusions"? Perspectives on the women's suffrage movement.

Displaying items from UCL Special Collections, this exhibition examines the actions and reactions attending the women's suffrage movement from the 1860s up to the Representation of the People Act 1918. Satirical commentaries including Laurence Housman's Anti-Suffrage Alphabet are set alongside campaign literature and petitions for and against legislative change.

Download the exhibition catalogue

This exhibition will run from 5 February - 14 December 2018.

Previous exhibitions

Our last 3 exhibitions are listed below.

Information about all our previous exhibitions is also available.

East Side Stories: Londoners in transition
January - December 2017

Fair play and foul: connecting with Shakespeare at UCL
February - December 2016

Queen of the Sciences: a celebration of numbers and the LMS
February - December 2015

Current exhibitions

Queen Square Library, Archive & Museum, UCL Institute of Neurology & The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery (UCLH)
The Queen Square Archive, Rare Books and Museum collections are housed in and managed by the Queen Square Library.

Previous exhibitions

Bobby and Stillman Exhibition, UCL Science Library
Crispin Hughes and Susi Arnott have been collaborating with Swedish mathematician Sofia Olhede (UCL Big Data Institute) on inter-tidal spaces and fluid dynamics. The exhibition is scheduled to run from late July until mid-September in the Science Library Cafe.

Banham Bartlett and Beyond at UCL Bartlett Library
Banham taught at The Bartlett as senior lecturer of architectural history from 1964-1978. The exhibition seeks to revive Banham's legacy, elucidating his role at The Bartlett and his wider cultural impact.