Bodleian Libraries - Pop-up Maps Discovery Station at the Weston Library
Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3BG
11am - 3pm: Maps Discovery Station: Drop-in to Blackwell Hall and discover some of the Bodleian’s marvellous map collections with a show and tell from staff members of the Bodleian Map Room, who will be showing some of the earliest maps of the city and a facsimile of the earliest sheet map of the country.
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. It includes the principal University library – the Bodleian Library – which has been a legal deposit library for 400 years; as well as 27 libraries across Oxford including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries. Together, the Libraries hold more than 13 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art and printed ephemera. Members of the public can explore the collections via the Bodleian’s online image portal at digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk or by visiting the exhibition galleries in the Bodleian’s Weston Library. For more information, visit www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
Timings & Tours
- Saturday 13 September:
- 1100-1500
Location & directions
Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3BG
- Contact on day:
- Anna Clark
- Telephone number:
- +441865242918
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking not required
Accessibility details
For public enquiries about the event: [email protected]
Additional information
There will be some free flow, drop-in keep sake printing activities in Blackwell Hall and the Bodleian Biblio Press on both days, which are suitable for all ages. Weston Library Café will be open.
