The Ladybird Heritage Network is committed to actively displaying and lending artworks and other assorted ephemera held in its publicly accessible collections.

Below are some of the exhibitions which have been supported by the partnership.

Current Exhibitions

Ladybird in Focus: The 1980s and 1990s

Museum of English Rural Life (6 September 2022 - 3 September 2023)

Permanent Displays

Ladybird Gallery

Museum of English Rural Life (2016 - Present)

Ladybird Display

Charnwood Museum (1999 -Present)

Past Exhibitions

Please Note: These exhibitions link to external websites. We do our best to keep these links active but this is not always possible. If you find a broken link, please contact us.

People at Work: Earning a Living in the Ladybird World

Charnwood Museum (18 June 2022 - 1 October 2022)

Ladybird in Focus: Going Global

Museum of English Rural Life (7 September 2021 - 4 September 2022)

A British Summerscape

National Trust: Mottisfont (24 July – 5 September 2021)

Ladybird in Focus: The Global Farm

Museum of English Rural Life (15 September 2020 - 5 September 2021)

Ladybird in Focus: One Giant Leap

Museum of English Rural Life (3 September 2019 - 13 September 2020)

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE GARDEN

Garden Museum (31 July - 27 October 2019)

Ladybird Books: How it Works

Reading Museum (30 March - 17 August 2019)

Ladybird in Focus: Women

Museum of English Rural Life (29 August 2018 - 1 September 2019)

Ladybird in Focus: Making

Museum of English Rural Life (27 February 2018 - 26 August 2018)

Ladybird in Focus: Food

Museum of English Rural Life (22 August 2017 - 25 February 2018)

Second Nature: The Art of Charles Tunnicliffe RA

Royal Academy (11 July — 8 October 2017)

Ladybird in Focus: Climate Change

Museum of English Rural Life (7 March 2017 - 20 August 2017)

Charles Dickens: A Ladybird Book

Charles Dickens Museum (29 November 2016 - 16 April 2017)

Facts, Fun and Fairytales

National Trust: Nymans (26 November 2016 - 8 January 2017)

Ladybird in Focus: Allen W. Seaby

Museum of English Rural Life (19 October 2016 - 5 March 2017)

Aspects of Tunnicliffe

Nature in Art (26 July – 4 September 2016)

Britain in the Fifties: Design and Aspiration

Compton Verney (9 July - 2 October 2016)

Ladybird by Design

House of Illustration (10 July to 27 September 2015)

Ladybird Books The Story of Football

National Football Museum (22 May - 31 October 2015)

Illustrating Cricket (1950 - 1965)

Marylebone Cricket Club (1 May – 1 December 2015)

Ladybird by Design

De La Warr (24 January – 10 May 2015)