On 17 March 2020, all our Visitor Attraction venues temporarily closed their doors to the public due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions team were faced with a real challenge; how could visitor engagement with our collections continue when we couldn’t allow public access to any of our venues?

We’re excited to introduce our late-night opening at Palace Green Library and the Oriental Museum every Thursday from 2 December.

A fantastic new photography exhibition, Taxila in Focus: 100 years since Marshall has recently opened at the Oriental Museum, displaying images of archaeology from the early 1900s at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Taxila in Pakistan.

We’re delighted to announce that University Library and Collections has recently subscribed to ‘Academic Complete’ Ebook Collection, giving staff and students unlimited simultaneous access to over 200,000 additional ebook titles.

The latest online tutorial for students to develop their research skills is now available.

Lots of us will have shelves full of things we love to keep, and it’s the same in museums, except our curators can’t just put the collections in a cardboard box in the garage like we might do with our old school books!