Plan your visit
Plan your visit

The Bodleian Library, Radcliffe Camera and Weston Library are three of Oxford's most iconic libraries, located in the heart of the city.
Get exclusive, behind-the-scenes access on a guided library tour, or explore the historic city of Oxford on a walking tour with one of our expert guides.
Now on at the Weston Library are two fantastic, free exhibitions. Gifts and Books explores the meaning of gifts and the stories we tell about them (until 29 October), and Alphabets Alive! brings the magic of books and alphabets to life (until 21 January 2024). In Blackwell Hall, see our display The Dancing Master, which celebrates English country dancing and the role of the Dancing Master in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Tickets and opening hours

For many of our tours, you can buy tickets in advance online.
We also sell a portion of tour tickets on the day. Please visit the information desk in the Weston Library to purchase these.
Guided tours: Bodleian Library, Radcliffe Camera and more
September
- Tuesday 26 September: The Divinity School will be closed from 4.30pm.
- Wednesday 27 September: The 60-minute tour at 2pm will not be available.
- Thursday 28 September: There will be no 60-minute tours running all day.
- Saturday 30 September: The Divinity School will be closed from 11.30am–3.30pm.
October
- Monday 2 October: The 60-minute tour at 2pm will not be available.
- Tuesday 3 October: The Divinity School will be closed from 11am.
- Thursday 5 October: The Divinity School will be closed from 8am–2pm.
- Sunday 8 October: The Divinity School will be closed from 3pm.
- Tuesday 10 October: The Divinity School will be closed all day.
- Thursday 12 October: The Divinity School will be closed all day.
- Saturday 14 October: The Divinity School will be closed all day.
- Thursday 19 October: The Divinity School will be closed all day.
- Sunday 22 October: There will be no audio guides available on this day.
The safety of our staff and visitors is important to us.
Wearing a face covering is now a personal choice. Please be respectful to those who choose to continue wearing one.
If you or anyone you live with displays symptoms associated with COVID-19, we ask that you delay your visit until you no longer have symptoms.
We ask the public to follow these rules when visiting the Bodleian Libraries exhibition galleries in the Weston Library. We aim to provide a safe environment for our visitors and make sure that our collections are preserved for the future.
- Food and drink are not allowed in the galleries, including bottled water. The café is situated in Blackwell Hall for visitor refreshment.
- Children are very welcome, but please make sure they are supervised at all times.
- Pushchairs and buggies are welcome in the galleries. At very busy times we may need to limit the number of buggies in the gallery, and this will be at the discretion of the room attendant. Please note that very large double-buggies cannot be brought into the exhibition galleries, due to the narrow walkways between exhibits.
- Assistance dogs are welcome in the galleries.
- Large items such as rucksacks or wheeled cases may not be taken into the galleries, due to space limitations. This includes any item larger than aircraft carry-on luggage. Medium-sized backpacks or cases should not be worn on the back or wheeled, but may be carried. Very small bags and day-packs may be carried on the owner’s back. These rules help avoid damage to works on the walls or to the display cases. The room attendant will use his or her judgement on which bags may be admitted, and how they should be carried, to avoid any risk of damage to the galleries, collections, or other members of the public. For guidance, bags larger than approx. 50 x 40 x 25 cm will be excluded from the galleries. We are unfortunately not able to provide any storage for large bags which have been excluded. You must not leave bags unattended in Blackwell Hall.
- Please do not bring wet umbrellas into the galleries. You can leave coats or umbrellas on the coat rack outside the galleries (please note that this is at the owner’s risk).
- You are very welcome to take photographs, as long as this is for your personal, non-commercial use only. We do not allow the use of video cameras, flash and tripods (including selfie sticks).
- You may bring pencils into the galleries. Pens and markers are not allowed.
Your visit
