Browse past displays and exhibitions which are exclusive to our website.

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