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
Palestine - 1: reimagining Palestine's past
A brand new anthology of Palestinian fiction.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret Maps of a Forgotten Map Library
James Cheshire reveals the classified maps he discovered in a university’s map library.
Darkland Tales: Benbecula
Booker-nominated Scottish author Graeme Macrae Burnet shares the research behind his newest work.
Doctoral Open Day: Europe, Americas and Oceania
Explore our collections covering Europe, the Americas and Oceania in this Doctoral Open Day for PhD students.
Old English Masterclass
Explore Old English in its cultural context in this two-day course.
The W.G. Sebald Lecture 2025: Elif Shafak
The annual lecture on literary translation.
Spies, Maps, and Secret Missions: Deep Into Enemy Territory
A look into the covert world of spies and maps.
Katherine Rundell on Fantasy and Maps
Multi-award-winning author Katherine Rundell will celebrate wondrous and mysterious maps in fiction in this student Q&A event.
Journeys through the Archives: Bringing the past to life
with Alexis Wolf, Edmund de Waal and Mathelinda Nabugodi.