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
