Exhibition closed until 13 June
This exhibition is currently closed while we carry out essential maintenance and refresh the displays. It will re-open on 13 June.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
Permanent Exhibition
Hengwrt Gallery
‘Treasures’ showcases iconic items from our collection of archives, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, maps, and unique audio and film material.
The items in this exhibition are treasures because they are valuable, rare, old, beautiful or iconic, and each has its own unique history that plays a special part in the story of Wales.
Although a permanent exhibition, Treasures is regularly refreshed, with items changing and new themes introduced regularly.
Curious Traveller: Thomas Pennant 300 Part of the Treasures exhibition
13.06.26 – 07.11.26
Naturalist, antiquarian and self-proclaimed ‘curious traveller’, Thomas Pennant of Downing, Flintshire, was renowned in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond. Marking 300 years since his birth, this exhibition showcases some of the Library’s most beautiful and intriguing examples of his collaborative and dynamic work. From the superbly-illustrated British Zoology to the Tours of Scotland and Wales, they capture the accelerating energies of a period which saw the entangled development of British tourism, industrial revolution, and new forms of engagement with the natural world.
The Nanteos Cup is currently not on display until Spring 2027.