Shows at University of Edinburgh Main Library

Rooting: Ecology, Extraction and Environmental Emergencies in the University’s Art Collection

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
University of Edinburgh Main Library
1st - 25th Aug 2025

Using the University’s 350-year-old art collection as its focus, this exhibition brings together historic and contemporary artworks by 30 different artists around the theme of th…

Panoramas: The World in 360°

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
University of Edinburgh Main Library
1st - 26th Aug 2024

Two hundred years ago the first virtual-reality experiences were born in Edinburgh, not from digital technologies, but from the mastery of painted perspective, the control of space…

A Carrying Stream

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
University of Edinburgh Main Library
1st - 28th Aug 2023

Drawing on the sound archive of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Scottish Studies Archives, this exhibition explores creative reuse of the archive by a new generation of a…

Robert Blomfield: Student of Light

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
University of Edinburgh Main Library
1st - 29th Aug 2022

Following the recent deposit of the landmark archive of acclaimed street photographer Robert Blomfield (1938–2020) at the Centre for Research Collections, this exhibition celebra…