- A Soviet Design for Life: The Catherine Cooke Collection of 20th Century Russian Architecture and Design (4 July to 6 April 2013)
- Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books (18 January - 16 June 2012)
- Books & Babies: Communicating Reproduction (7 July to 23 December 2011)
- Great and Manifold Blessings: The Making of the King James Bible (18 January to 18 June 2011)
- Dream Voices: Siegfried Sassoon, Memory and War (21 July to 23 December 2010)
- Under Covers: Documenting Spies (Tuesday 19 January to Saturday 3 July 2010)
- A Voyage Round the World: Charles Darwin and the Beagle Collections in the University of Cambridge ( 6 July to 23 December 2009)
- Advancing by degrees: the University of Cambridge 1209–2009 (20 January to 20 June 2009)
- 'My booke and my selfe': Michel de Montaigne 1533–1592 (4 August to 23 December 2008)
- Living at this hour: John Milton 1608-2008 (15 January to12 July 2008)
- Through the Whole Island: Excursions in Great Britain (17 July to 22 December 2007)
- Keeping the Score: Music in the Library (18 January to 30 June 2007)
- Unregulated Printing: Modern Private Press Books (18 July 2006 to 16 December 2006)
- Visible Language: Dante in Text & Image (17 January 2006 to 1 July 2006)
- The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West (26 July to 10 December 2005).
- All Good Friends: Donations from the Friends of the Library (25 January to 4 June 2005).
- Writing Poetry: Manuscript Verse, 250 BC to 2000 AD (11 May to 18 December 2004)
- Sacred Scripts: World Religions in Manuscripts & Print (4 November 2003 to 24 April 2004)
- Unfolding Landscapes: Maps of Cambridgeshire from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II (30 April to 18 October 2003)
- Beauty and the Book: Gems of colour printing (9 April to 14 September 2002)
- Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at work (9 October 2001 to 23 March 2002)
- Fantasy to Federation: European maps of Australia to 1901 (3 April to 15 September 2001)
- The journey to Hogwarts: Women writing for children, 1750-2000 (3 October 2000 to 17 March 2001)
- Keeping time: a celebration of the year 2000 (18 March to 15 September 2000)
- "A brave bad man": Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658 (27 April to 9 October 1999)
- Armistice Day: memorials and memories (10 November 1998 to 10 April 1999)
- The Great Collections (25 July to 24 October 1998)
