Guildhall Library - Art Fund

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About

The Guildhall Library specialises in London history

It holds special collections on family history, marine history, business history, clocks and clockmaking, food and wine, early travel books, gardening history, Thomas More, Samuel Pepys and John Wilkes.

Guildhall Library

Free to all

Aldermanbury, London, Greater London, EC2V 7HH

020 7332 1868

Opening times

Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri, 9.30am – 5pm Wed, 9.30am – 7.30pm

Alternate Sat (please check website for details), 9.30am – 5pm

Closed on bank holidays and on the Saturday of bank holiday weekends

Exhibitions nearby

Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward in Private Lives, 1931 - Times Square Theatre, New York.

Noël Coward: Art & Style

Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Until 23 December 2021

Free to all

Aldgate tube station depicted as an ‘urban obstacle course’ in the book Making Space (1984)

How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative

Barbican Art Gallery, London
Until 23 December 2021

50% off exhibitions

Noguchi

Barbican Art Gallery, London
Until 9 January 2022

50% off exhibitions

Auguste Rodin, Study for The Thinker, 1881

The EY Exhibition: The Making of Rodin

Tate Modern, London
Until 21 November 2021

50% off exhibitions

Art we’ve helped buy at Guildhall Library

The Church of St-Giles-in-the-Fields

Acquired 1936

House Behind Holborn

Acquired 1936

Three topographical prints

Acquired 1996

Proposed railway suspension bridge over The Thames

Acquired 1999