Exhibitions
Currently on exhibition
Our Special Collections exhibition, Ceremony and celebration: a summer exhibition for London’s Olympic year, is now open in the Maughan Library's Weston Room. See the Current Maughan Library exhibition page for full details.
King's College London Archives is presenting a new exhibition: The Royal Connection to help visitors discover more about the circumstances of King George IV's patronage of the College, the impact of the flowering of learned societies in Somerset House and the ongoing significance of royal support for the work of the College. Created to celebrate the opening of the Inigo Rooms in the East Wing of Somerset House on 29 February 2012, the exhibition is now displayed in the exhibition cabinets in the foyer of the main King's building at the Strand, open to the public.
Online exhibitions
Online exhibition pages authored by Archives and Special Collections staff give a good idea of the breadth of subject matter our collections cover and the quality of images we can make available. Increasingly, the exhibitions we create are supplemented by online exhibitions to make content accessible to those unable to visit in person.
Archive and Special Collections Exhibitions
New online exhibition
Faster & fairer - science & sport at King's College London is the latest addition to our online exhibitions pages.
Permanent displays
Celebrating DNA is a display cabinet filled with items from the College Archives illustrating the crucial work done in x-ray crystallography at King's College London in the early 1950s by Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin along with their colleagues. This led directly to the discovery of the helical structure of DNA. The items can be viewed in a display cabinet on the first floor of the main King's building at the Strand.
Additional displays of matter from the College Archives are on view in the Senior Common room and foyer of the Physics department offices. Access to these areas is controlled.