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Current, Forthcoming & Previous Exhibitions

Archives & Special Collections has contributed material from our unique archives, manuscript and rare books collections towards a range of local, national and international exhibitions.

Current Exhibitions

Objects of Instruction: Treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Foyle Special Collections Gallery, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, permanent display

Akbar – The Great Emperor of India 1542 – 1605, Fondazione Roma Arte – Musei, October 2012 - January 2013

Britain in Palestine, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, October - December 2012

David Livingstone, I Presume?, National Museums Scotland, November 2012- April 2013

Pirates, Merchants & Shipping on the North China Coast, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, October - December 2012

Forthcoming Exhibitions

Further details to follow.

Previous Exhibitions

The Man Who Wouldn’t Run on a Sunday: Eric Liddell in the SOAS Archives, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, July - September 2012

Gifts of Recognition: Modern and Contemporary Art from the SOAS Collections, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, July - September 2012

The Printed Image in China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May - July 2012

Procession of the Korean Ambassadors, British Museum, 2007 to February 2012

Dirt, Wellcome Collection, London, March – August 2011

Centenary of the Xinhai Revolution, National Library of China, Jan 2011

1911 Wuchang Uprising, Beijing World Art Museum, 2011

The Printed Image in China, British Museum, May to September 2010

Posing Questions: Being and Image in Asia and Europe, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, January – March 2010

Beyond Diplomacy: an exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Kingdom, Embassy of Japan, London, September – October 2008

Western Eyes: Historical Photographs of China in British Collections, 1860-1930, National Library of China, British Library, September 2008

Objects of Instruction: Treasures of the School of Oriental & African Studies, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, October - December 2007

Picturing China, 1870-1950: Photographs from British Collections, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, October - December 2007

Power and Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific, British Museum, September 2006 – January 2007

Pacific Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia, 1760-1860, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, May – August 2006 (also at Musée du quai Branly, Paris, June – September 2008)

Des missionaries au bout du mond – un siècle de missions en Asie et Océanie, 1860-1960, Archives de Marseille, April – June 2006

The Colonial and Postcolonial History of the Book, 1765-2005: Researching the Margins, Open University in Association with the University of London Institute of English Studies and Senate House Library, London, October – November 2005

Goa and the Great Mughal, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal, June – September 2004
Asia: Body Mind Spirit – A Major Exhibition of Asian Treasures from the Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection, October – December 2004

The Indigenous and the Foreign: Art & Architecture of 17th Century Ethiopia, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, July – September 2004