Current Exhibitions

The National Library has dedicated exhibition spaces both in its principal buildings on Kildare Street and in the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar. In addition to the major exhibitions on display in these areas, the Library regularly mounts smaller exhibitions in other parts of its buildings. Listed below are the exhibitions currently on display in National Library buildings.


Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
Main Building, Kildare St, 25 May 2006 -

Taking Stock: the National Photographic Archive from 1998
Celebrating 14 years of photographic exhibitions at the NPA in Temple Bar, Dublin - running from October 2012 to Summer 2013

Discover Your NLI: Particles of the Past
Discover Science at the National Library, and find out what goes on in our Library Lab.