Displays and events

International Symposium to celebrate the bicentennial of the “Essay on the Shaking Palsy” 19-20th October 2017, 33 Queen Square. Our next exhibition will be launched to coincide with this event.

James Parkinson Memorial: the man behind “the shaking palsy” 16th November 2017, 1-8.30pm, Royal London Hospital

Current exhibition
“The beautiful brain: visualising the mind from the 19th century to the present day” will run in Queen Square Library until the end of September 2017.

Exhibition handout

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.

Previous exhibitions:

• 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.
  

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

Further information:

• 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 Trust and the National Brain Appeal.