Past Exhibits

Post No Bills: Toronto Street Posters from the 1950s to 1990s
April 8 to June 25, 2023
Virtual Exhibit
Mischief and Mirth: The Wonderful World of Fairies
December 10, 2022 to March 19, 2023
Virtual Exhibit
Block by Block
August 20 to November 20, 2022
Consulting with the Ether
May 7 to July 30, 2022
A Study in Sherlock & His Creator: 50 Years of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
February 5 to April 16, 2022
Virtual Exhibit
Spaced Out: 50 Years of the Merril Collection
October 9 to December 31, 2021
Art of the Book
February 15 to March 12, 2020 and August 9 to September 19, 2021
You, Me, Us: Outstanding Books For and About Young People with Disabilities
November 16, 2019 to January 26, 2020
Exhibit Digest
Plum Blossom from the Bitter Cold: Selections from the Chinese Canadian Archive
August 17 to October 27, 2019
Exhibit Digest
Retro Futures
May 18 to July 28, 2019
Exhibit Digest
For the Record: An Idea of the North
February 16 to April 28, 2019
Exhibit Digest
Alice Opens the Door
November 17, 2018 to January 27, 2019
Exhibit Digest
Pathways: Following traces of Indigenous routes across Ontario
August 18 to October 28, 2018
Exhibit Digest
Alter Ego: Comics And Canadian Identity
May 12 to July 29, 2018
Toronto Revealed
February 10 to April 22, 2018
Exhibit Digest
I Am Canada: Celebrating Canadian Picture Book Art
November 11, 2017 to January 21, 2018
Pop Sherlock
August 19 to October 22, 2017
Exhibit Digest
Destination Canada
May 20 to July 30, 2017
Exhibit Digest
Vice & Virtue
February 11 to April 30, 2017
Exhibit Digest
Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tales from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books
November 5, 2016 to January 22, 2017
Exhibit Digest
The Art of Cartography
August 13 to October 16, 2016
Exhibit Digest
The Changing Face of Toronto
May 14 to July 23, 2016
Virtual Exhibit
Special Collections: A to Z
February 20 to April 24, 2016
Virtual Exhibit
Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons
December 19, 2015 to January 31, 2016
John J. Audubon's Birds of America
September 26 to November 29, 2015
Virtual Exhibit
Toronto's Sporting Past
July 4 to September 5, 2015
Virtual Exhibit
Exposed: Highlights from the Toronto Star Photograph Archive
April 18 to June 14, 2015
Virtual Exhibit
Freedom City: Uncovering Toronto’s Black History
January 31 to March 29, 2015
Virtual Exhibit
Four Families, One War
November 1, 2014 to January 11, 2015
Virtual Exhibit
Dreaming Big: Toronto’s Waterfront – 1852 to Tomorrow
August 9 to October 11, 2014
Virtual Exhibit
Magnetic North: The Enduring Pull of the Arctic
May 17 to July 19, 2014
Virtual Exhibit
Coffee, Beer and Mosh Pits
February 8 to April 27, 2014
The Gilded Age of Fashion: 1890-1914
October 19, 2013 to January 5, 2014
Virtual Exhibit
Flight: A Thrilling History of an Idea
July 13 to September 22, 2013
Virtual Exhibit
War Stories: Toronto and the War of 1812-14
March 30 to June 22, 2013
Virtual Exhibit
Adventures with Sherlock Holmes
January 5 to March 10, 2013
Virtual Exhibit
Royal Fanfare: An Exhibition of Rare Engravings, Photographs, and Royal Souvenirs
September 22 to December 2, 2012
Virtual Exhibit
A Passion for History: The Legacy of James Bain
June 16 to September 1, 2012
Virtual Exhibit
Capturing Canada on Paper and Canvas
January 31 to March 15, 2009
Virtual Exhibit
Local Flavour: Eating in Toronto, 1830-1955
October 25, 2008 to January 11, 2009
The Circus Comes to Town
July 19 to October 5, 2008
Virtual Exhibit
From Hanga to Manga
April 19 to June 28, 2008
Art Under Cover
January 19 to March 30, 2008
Collected Works: A Public Legacy
October 20 to December 31, 2007
Virtual Exhibit
Stage Struck: 100 years of the Royal Alex
July 21 to September 30, 2007
Toronto's Sanctuaries: Church Designs by Henry Langley
April 18 to June 30, 2007
Virtual Exhibit
Picture Perfect! An Exhibit of Canadian Picture Book Art
January 27 to April 1, 2007
Virtual Exhibit
A Case of Considerable Interest: Treasures from the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
October 18, 2006 to January 7, 2007
Virtual Exhibit
Culture From the Ground Up: An Exhibit of Toronto's Alternative Culture from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
August 12 to September 30, 2006
Coming Together: A history of community, pride and resistance from the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
May 20 to July, 2006
Setting the Stage: 20 Years of Design for Opera Atelier
February 9 to April 30, 2006
Virtual Exhibit
Animals Are Allowed in the Library
November 12, 2005 to January 22, 2006
Virtual Exhibit
Ten Days to Show the World, a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
August 27 to October 23, 2005
Group of Seven Style and Design
June 18 to August 6, 2005
Virtual Exhibit
Canadians On Guard: the Home Front 1939-1945
April 9 to May 29, 2005
Virtual Exhibit
Drawn-Out Stories: Art of Graphic Novels
January 22 to March 20, 2005
Frozen Ocean: Search for the Northwest Passage
October 2 to December 31, 2004
Virtual Exhibit
Kabuki - Part 2: The Performance
July 17 to September 12, 2004
Virtual Exhibit
Kabuki - Part 1: The Actors
May 8 to July 3, 2004
Virtual Exhibit
Ontario History Quest
January 28 to April 18, 2004
Toronto Through the Lens
November 8, 2003 to January 11, 2004
Other Worlds: Get There From Here
August 22 to October 19, 2003
Toronto: A Place of Meeting II
May 17 to August 2, 2003
Virtual Exhibit
Audubon Images on Stamps
February 22 to April 27, 2003
Virtual Exhibit
Celebrating Sixty Years of Curious George: The Art of H. A. and Margret Rey
December 7, 2002 to February 2, 2003
The Toronto Reference Library: The First 25 Years
October 5 to November 24, 2002
Toronto: A Place of Meeting I
June 29 to September 22, 2002
Virtual Exhibit
This Magical Book: Movable Books for Children, 1771-2001
April 13 to June 9, 2002
Virtual Exhibit
Ink Paper Lead, Board Leather Thread
January 19 to March 17, 2002
Footprints of the Hound
October 20 to December 29, 2001
Virtual Exhibit
All Aboard Toronto: Railways and the Growth of the City
August 4 to October 7, 2001
Virtual Exhibit
Doing Our Bit: Canadians and the Great War
October 31, 1998 to February 14, 1999