Browse Library Exhibitions

Online exhibitions created by the Library's Curatorial team, featuring items from Special Collections at the University of Manchester Library.

View of the Ferranti building.
UMIST’s Modernist Moment
A Sikh steel helmet crafted in the Punjab, typical in style and decoration for the 19th century.
Sikh Heritage Collections
Detail from a photograph showing Madeline Linford at the centre, along with her editorial colleagues from the Manchester Guardian.
Women who shaped Manchester
Carcanet logo with a black cat forming a 'C' shape on a tan background.
Carcanet
Medical metal syringe with wooden box and instructions.
Instruments of Change
Qing - China's Multilingual Empire
Two historic mastheads from the Manchester Guardian in rows above each other.
Manchester’s Guardian

Browse Research Exhibitions

Online exhibitions created by academics and researchers at the University of Manchester, drawing on our Special Collections and collections from around the world.

A quadruped with sharp teeth crouches among brightly coloured foliage, underneath a stylised sun and a blue sky.
Digital Territories
A schoolmaster in a black gown dances beneath the letters X, Y, Z, with text offering words and definitions for letters beginning with x, y, and z.
X Stands for Nothing
Double page opening of frontispiece and title page of 'The Blessed'st Birth that euer was'. On the left there is a portrait of Henry Greenwood Preacher, with the title page on the right.
Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books
Three women's faces in profile, looking left.
Comics and Race in Latin America
Crop from Hebrew MS 6
The Many Faces of the Rylands’ Jewish Manuscripts
Travels in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)