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Featured exhibitions

  • A collage on a green background. It shows a tree with birds and frogs around the tree, two planets ans stars are in top corners of the image. A cat in a spaceship travels toward the the left hand planet
    British Library, LondonFree

    Story Explorers: A journey through imaginary worlds

    Until Sunday 18 January 2026

    Take a free family trip through our collection and discover the stories behind objects which take you to wondrous places. Designed for children 0 – 9.

    More info
  • Artwork for Secret Maps exhibition. Navy background with lots of different maps from history, and images of a flight tracker, an Enigma Machine, Minecraft’s Uncensored Library, D-Day, and a war room. Some of these are obscured by shadows or pixellation.
    British Library, London

    Secret Maps

    24 October 2025 – 18 January 2026

    Who shapes your world? Who decides what you see? What hides behind grid lines?

    More info
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  1. Jerry Brotton alongside an image of Visscher's New World Map (1658).

    Secret Mapping: Mapping Secrecy

    Saturday 25 October, 14.00

    Professor Jerry Brotton hosts an afternoon dedicated to maps and their secrets.

    More info
  2. Image of a group of people in a room taking notes.

    Entrepreneurs Guide to Smart Money

    Monday 27 October 10.00

    Master money with confidence and learn practical strategies to manage cash flow, pay yourself efficiently and build lasting wealth.

    More info
  3. An image showing a group of young people sat around a table at the British Library playing a Dungeons and Dragons game
    Free

    Relaxed Event: Secret Maps, Dungeons and Dragons

    Monday 27 October 16.00

    Explore our Secret Maps exhibition with a Dungeons & Dragons twist at this event aimed at neurodivergent young people aged 11 – 18 years.

    More info
  4. A group of adults say around a table. They are talking animatedly with each other. There are pens and papers on the table.

    Inventors' Club

    Monday 27 October 18.00
    Great ideas can change the world!
    More info
  5. A small pile of dirt and an earthworm sit on top of a book that was once blue but is now patchy and distorted. A part of the printed title is visible.
    Free

    Books in their Elements: Print Culture in the Age of Climate Change

    Monday 27 October, Thursday 30 October and Monday 3 November

    The Panizzi Lectures 2025, delivered by Professor Isabel Hofmeyr.

    More info
  6. image shows flowers in sunlight

    The Wordsworth Lecture: Romantic Ecology Rebooted

    Monday 27 October 19.00

    with Jonathan Bate.

    More info
  7. Missing from the Map: Gender, Race and Cartography

    Monday 27 October 19.15

    How have maps historically erased Indigenous people and women? And how might their presence be put back on the map?

    More info
  8. Image of a group of people in a room taking notes.
    Free

    How to develop your business strategy – Business Model Canvas

    Tuesday 28 October 14.00

    Explore the two most effective methods to develop a winning strategy for success – the Business Plan and the Business Model Canvas.

    More info
  9. A child looking through a kaleidoscope in the Story Explorers Exhibition
    Free

    SEND Family Workshop: Sensory Storytelling

    Tuesday 28 October, 14.15 and 15.30

    Join us for sensory storytelling in our family exhibition Story Explorers: A Journey Through Imaginary Worlds

    More info
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