About the collections
The Blackie House Library and Museum collections include rare books and manuscripts, paintings, prints, sculpture and photography – along with antiquities, decorative objects, textiles, furniture and items from nature. While focusing on what its founder William Zachs describes as the ‘very long 18th century’ (1630-1830), the collection ranges from the medieval period to the present day.
BHLM collection catalogues are not available online, but we are very happy to assist with research enquiries.
BHLM also considers requests for the loan of items for exhibitions nationally and internationally. Items have recently been on loan to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery for the The World of King James VI & I exhibition, to Harewood House Trust for the Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition, and to V&A Dundee for the Garden Futures exhibition. Items are currently on loan to the National Portrait Gallery Writers Revealed touring exhibition to Busan Museum in South Korea and to Shanghai Museum in China, and to Bodleian Libraries for the Pets & their People exhibition.
