Exhibition

We're kicking off 2023 with some exciting new additions to our 140th anniversary exhibition - including a brand new discovery. Now on display is a book that might have been the first ever collected by our co-founder Thomas Guille. It disappeared…

With Boundless Curiosity now a month old, Marketing Officer Abi Paine reflects on the exhibition journey, and how much we've learnt about the Library's founders.   A week before the Boundless Curiosity exhibition was due to open in November, the…

As a special exhibition opens to mark our 140th anniversary, here's the Chief Librarian, Cornelia James, to reflect on the Library's storied history.   I'm delighted to welcome you to BOUNDLESS CURIOSITY, celebrating 140 years of our remarkable…

BOUNDLESS CURIOSITY: 140 Years of the Guille-Allès Library opened to the public on Friday 4 November 2022. In this blog, exhibition project manager Adam Bayfield takes you behind the scenes to share an insight into the journey and explain how the…