Exhibitions

The Library mounts two major exhibitions each year in its Exhibition Centre. These are open to the general public and admission is free. To enquire about the exhibitions programme, e-mail exhibitions@lib.cam.ac.uk.

The library also has a changing programme of displays in the North Front Corridor. For further information see the Rare Books events page.

Current Exhibition:

'My booke and my selfe': Michel de Montaigne 1533–1592 (4 August to 23 December 2008, closed 25 August and 16–23 September inclusive)

Previous Exhibitions:

• Living at this hour: John Milton 1608-2008 (15 January to12 July 2008)
• Through the Whole Island: Excursions in Great Britain (17 July to 22 December 2007)
• Keeping the Score: Music in the Library (18 January to 30 June 2007)
• Unregulated Printing: Modern Private Press Books (18 July 2006 to 16 December 2006)
• Visible Language: Dante in Text & Image (17 January 2006 to 1 July 2006)
• The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West (26 July to 10 December 2005).
• All Good Friends: Donations from the Friends of the Library (25 January to 4 June 2005).
• Writing Poetry: Manuscript Verse, 250 BC to 2000 AD (11 May to 18 December 2004)
• Sacred Scripts: World Religions in Manuscripts & Print(4 November 2003 to 24 April 2004)
• Unfolding Landscapes: Maps of Cambridgeshire from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II (30 April to 18 October 2003)
• Speaking Volumes: 600 years of Cambridge University Library (8 October 2002 to 15 March 2003)
• Beauty and the Book: Gems of colour printing (9 April to 14 September 2002)
• Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at work (9 October 2001 to 23 March 2002)
• Fantasy to Federation: European maps of Australia to 1901 (3 April to 15 September 2001)
• The journey to Hogwarts: Women writing for children, 1750-2000 (3 October 2000 to 17 March 2001)
• Keeping time: a celebration of the year 2000 (18 March to 15 September 2000)
• "A brave bad man": Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658 (27 April to 9 October 1999)
• Armistice Day: memorials and memories (10 November 1998 to 10 April 1999)
• The Great Collections (25 July to 24 October 1998)