Browse our displays and exhibitions.

We are also constantly adding new exhibitions throughout the year. Check back regularly to discover more about the Special Collections!

Garter and buckle label for H&P exhibition

Biscuit Town: 200 Years of Huntley & Palmers in Reading

Bees in the Collections

Surprising Special Collections

Example image from European Manuscript Collection

Embellish’d with gold: treasures from the European Manuscripts Collection

Bloch, Ichthyologie (1796) Cole 394

Cole and his library

The haunted room : a tale / A.L.O.E., 1821-1893. London. 1894.

A Lady of England

Horae BVM [Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary]

Treasures