Exhibitions
Uppsala University Library is a treasure trove of books, manuscripts, maps and pictures.
The Exhibition Hall at Carolina Rediviva
Entrance is free of charge.
See opening hours.
It is possible for groups to book a guided tour, for a fee. For more information, please contact evenemang@ub.uu.se.
The exhibition hall will be closed 21 september, 2-8 October and 23 October-5 November 2023 due to a changing of the exhibition.
Here you find samples from our valuable collections that have been gathered here for 400 years. In the exhibition you can follow the evolution of writing through thousands of years, the origin of book printing and how scientific discoveries spread in printed form. Through historical documents you see the development of society and democracy in past centuries. See and read more about the objects on display in the exhibition catalogue online, buy it in our shop at Carolina Rediviva or order the catalogue online.
The exhibition contains the famous Codex argenteus, as well as the earliest reasonably accurate map of the Nordic countries, Carta Marina, printed in 1539.
We have also temporary small exhibitions on current themes.
Champollion and hieroglyphics – 200 years of Egyptology
200 years ago, Jean-François Champollion made the breakthrough in the interpretation of the hieroglyphs with the Rosetta Stone as one of his sources. Through books and pictures from the collections at Uppsala University Library, this exhibition shows its historic significance. The exhibition also reflects the view of Ancient Egypt before Champollion’s time, and how his interpretation enabled the emergence of the new subject Egyptology at Uppsala University.
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum, and Uppsala University Art Collection, and shows objects on loan from their Egyptological collections.
You can read the exhibition catalogue online, buy it in our shop at Carolina Rediviva or order the catalogue online.
The exhibition runs from 7 June 2022 to 1 October 2023.
Kunyu Quantu (坤輿全圖)
A digital exhibition of the ancient world map in Chinese created in 1674.
The exhibition is made by Liangyu Liu & Feiye Yin, Master students of Digital Humanities (ALM Department), Uppsala University, during an internship at Uppsala University Library
Shop Carolina
Uppsala University Library has a gift shop that is located next to the entrance hall at Carolina Rediviva. Here you find a variety of books, posters, gift wraps and a large amount of postcards. Here you also find items such as notebooks, trays, coasters, ecolabelled bags, CDs, jewellery and cleaning cloths for glasses, mobile phones or tablets.
See the shop's opening hours
Themes for all products in the shop are taken from our rich collections of manuscripts, music scores, maps, images and printed materials. Currently, a few products are available for sale online: reproductions of two of the university's most famous treasures; Carta Marina and the Mexico map.
Order maps from Carolina Rediviva.
Previous anniversary exhibition 2020-2021
In 2020 and 2021 we celebrated Uppsala University Library's first 400 years with an anniversary exhibition. This exhibition highlighted how its large and unique collections found their way to the library through required legal deposit copies, donations and other means, and how the Library's locations have changed over the past 400 years from damp facilities near Uppsala Cathedral to today's physical and digital environments.
Read about the exhibition in the exhibition catalogue (parallell texts in Swedish and English).
Exhibition at Carolina Rediviva
Codex Argenteus
