What’s on
Featured exhibitions
Story Explorers: A journey through imaginary worlds
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.
Secret Maps
Who shapes your world? Who decides what you see? What hides behind grid lines?
All Events
List of Events
Secret Mapping: Mapping Secrecy
Professor Jerry Brotton hosts an afternoon dedicated to maps and their secrets.
Entrepreneurs Guide to Smart Money
Master money with confidence and learn practical strategies to manage cash flow, pay yourself efficiently and build lasting wealth.
Relaxed Event: Secret Maps, Dungeons and Dragons
Explore our Secret Maps exhibition with a Dungeons & Dragons twist at this event aimed at neurodivergent young people aged 11 – 18 years.
Inventors' Club
Great ideas can change the world!
Books in their Elements: Print Culture in the Age of Climate Change
The Panizzi Lectures 2025, delivered by Professor Isabel Hofmeyr.
The Wordsworth Lecture: Romantic Ecology Rebooted
with Jonathan Bate.
Missing from the Map: Gender, Race and Cartography
How have maps historically erased Indigenous people and women? And how might their presence be put back on the map?
How to develop your business strategy – Business Model Canvas
Explore the two most effective methods to develop a winning strategy for success – the Business Plan and the Business Model Canvas.
SEND Family Workshop: Sensory Storytelling
Join us for sensory storytelling in our family exhibition Story Explorers: A Journey Through Imaginary Worlds