Online Exhibitions

• • Be Inspired: Shakespeare & Me

    A celebration of creativity inspired by William Shakespeare.

• • Shakespeare Week Portraits

    Welcome to the Shakespeare Week portrait exhibition! Be inspired by a selection of Shakespeare portraits from our collections, as well as specially commissioned portraits created by well known children's illustrators.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Shakespeare Among Readers

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Dr Christina Lima, University of Leicester.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Marking Time in Shakespeare’s England

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Sophie Cope, University of Birmingham.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Shakespeare and Literary Pilgrimage

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Professor Nicola J Watson, Open University.

• • Shakespeare Connected - The Material Faith of Shakespeare

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Dr Cathryn Enis and Dr Tara Hamling from The Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies, University of Birmingham.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Not to Be: Death in the Collection

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Ben Haworth, Nottingham Trent University.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Shakespeare’s New Place: Artefacts and Inhabitants

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Will Mitchell, Archaeologist at Staffordshire University.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Costuming Shakespeare: Elizabethan Dress through the Centuries

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Ella Hawkins, University of Birmingham.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Imagining New Place

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Alexandra Hewitt, University of Birmingham.

• • Shakespeare Connected - ‘The natural gates and alleys of the body’ (Hamlet, 1.5.67): Physicality, Hygiene and Bodily Waste in Shakespeare’s World

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Peter J Smith, Nottingham Trent University.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Our German Shakespeare!

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Helen Hopkins, Birmingham City University.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Ageless Cleopatra

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Islam Issa, Birmingham City University.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Discovering the Guild Chapel

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition co-curated by Kate Giles, University of York and the volunteers of the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Shakespeare and Religious War

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Elisabetta Tarantino, Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.

• • Shakespeare Connected - Storms and Watercolours: Visualising Shakespeare's Nature

    A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Miranda Jones, University of Birmingham.

• • VocalEyes - Shakespeare's Birthplace

    An exhibition featuring audio descriptions of some of the Trust's Top 30 objects and Shakespeare's Birthplace.

• • VocalEyes - New Place

    An exhibition featuring audio descriptions of some of the Trust's Top 30 objects and New Place.

• • VocalEyes - Hall's Croft

    An exhibition featuring audio descriptions of some of the Trust's Top 30 objects and Hall's Croft.

• • Method in the Madness

    Method in the Madness: Understanding Ourselves Then & Now explores how the body, mind and disease were interpreted in the lifetime of John Hall (1575-1635), the physician who occupied Hall’s Croft’ in the early 1600s. John Hall lived there with his wife Susanna, the eldest daughter of William Shakespeare.

• • Saving Shakespeare's Birthplace

    In 1847 Shakespeare's Birthplace was put up for sale by public auction. Amid intense media interest, a campaign was launched to save the house for the nation.

• • Ira Aldridge in the Collections

    For Black History Month 2017 we have brought together the material we have relating to 19th century actor, Ira Aldridge, from different parts of the collection.

• • Favourites

    Items from our collection that get us excited

• • Sharing Shakespeare's Story

    ‘Sharing Shakespeare’s Story’ is part of the Museums and Schools programme and is funded by Arts Council England and the Department for Education.