More than 17,000 participants a year enjoy free workshops and tours at the British Library. Our workshops use gallery visits to develop creative thinking, visual and verbal literacy and research skills.
Choose from the workshops below.
Inspiring workshops and tours, using the exhibition to explore the connections between history, myth and faith.
Drawing on fascinating collection items, this workshop investigates how food can be used to examine identity.
Free guided tours of the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library for public groups.
A workshop that explores material from the British Library's Sound Archive and discusses the nature of sound and how it can be classified and recorded.
A workshop that encourages participants to find their own connections with magnificent sacred texts from eight different religions.
This interactive exploration of the Library is ideal for a first visit. Your group will take a journey through the galleries and public spaces, asking questions about knowledge, information and libraries.
Examine original texts, including literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed material on display in the ‘treasures’ gallery, to open up a world of questioning.
A new workshop for our youngest visitors. Participants will develop research skills by investigating different ways of finding things out: looking things up, asking questions, guessing and using the imagination.
How do patterns help us understand the world around us? Investigate patterns hidden in the texts and images in the British Library.
An interactive performance at your school that will get your group thinking about how we organise, catalogue or categorise knowledge. But just watch out for the blank piece of paper – it won’t be filed!