Displays and events

New exhibition

NHS at 70: Celebrating the achievements of Queen Square
The exhibition which includes photographs, objects and documents from Queen Square Archives will run in Queen Square Library, 23 Queen Square from August – December 2018. This exhibition is dedicated to Annie Lindsay, UCLH Archivist (2004-2018).

Please see exhibition handout and selected image compilation for further information.

Opening Hours

You can visit to see our displays in person : usually Monday - Friday 9am-7pm (last entry 6pm). Please see our opening hours page for changes to our opening over the coming weeks. Please bring some provide proof of identity (e.g. driving licence or bank card) with you, and sign in at the Library desk on the 1st floor.

External events and exhibitions

The Embroidered Minds Collaboration
Talk by Andrew Thomas, Sue Ridge and Julia Dwyer at the Laing Art Gallery as part of their Enchanted Gardens exhibition
29th September 2018, 1.30-4.50-pm

LECTURE: THE ENLIGHTENED MR PARKINSON - OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE
UCL School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX
Monday 15 October 2018 17:30. Cost: free. British Society for the History of Pharmacy

Previous exhibitions:

Please see our compilations page to view some of the earlier displays, selected handouts from which are linked below:

• WAVECRAFT: Two pioneers of EEG and their world. This exhibition is now on display at: Library and Archive, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole street, London until 1st November 2018. Please see the curator Ken Barrett’s website for further information.

• Women in Queen Square: Celebrating the centenary of Votes for Women in the UK

• Letter in Mind - National Brain Appeal: full gallery of works for 2016 and 2015 works – please contact the National Brain Appeal for the 2014 gallery of works.

• James Parkinson: Celebrating the bi-centennial of the “Essay on shaking palsy"

• The beautiful brain: visualising the mind from the 19th century to the present day

• Victor Horsley: a continuing legacy: commemorating the centenary of Horsley’s death

• Manhandling the brain: Psychiatric neurosurgery in the mid-20th century

• Embroidered Minds: William Gowers & the Morris Family

• Teaching in Queen Square: from Brown-Sequard’s outpatient lectures to distance learning

• Queen Square: a journey through its buildings & institutions

• First World War at the National

• The Beginning of the End of the Falling Sickness: Epilepsy and its treatment in London 1860-1910

• The founding and early years of the National Hospital, Queen Square

• Gowers, the artist. Sir William Richard Gowers FRS, 1845-1915

• Ladies’ Samaritan Society 1860-2014

• The National Hospital, Queen Square: From Research to Patient

• Queen Square: at Work and Play

Other Queen Square related exhibitions

Silvering the Cerebrum

Library, museum and archive refurbishment generously supported by the Brain Research UK and the National Brain Appeal.