Exhibitions

First Fragments

28 Oct 2022 – 3 Sep 2023

A Monk’s Tale

1 Mar 2022 – 20 Nov 2022

Meeting in Isfahan

4 Feb 2022 – 28 Aug 2022

Fragments

15 Dec 2021 – 31 Jan 2022

Edo in Colour

28 May 2021 – 5 Dec 2021

Siam

21 Feb 2020 – 6 Dec 2020

Thai Buddhist Tales

14 Jun 2019 – 26 Jan 2020

The Mystery of Mani

21 Jun 2019 – 19 Jan 2020

Gift of a Lifetime

18 Oct 2018 – 28 Apr 2019

The Valiant Adventures of Tawara Tōda

29 Oct 2018 – 13 Jan 2019

Miniature Masterpiece:
The Coëtivy Hours

9 Mar 2018 – 2 Sep 2018

Francisco Goya: Disasters of War

6 Oct 2017 – 21 Jan 2018

The Art of Friendship: Japanese Surimono Prints

3 Mar 2017 – 27 Aug 2017

Hong Ling: A Retrospective

21 Oct 2016 – 29 Jan 2017

Lapis and Gold, The Story of the Ruzbihan Qur’an

15 Apr 2016 – 28 Aug 2016

Wicked Wit: Darly’s Comic Prints

11 Sep 2015 – 14 Feb 2016

Seven Treasures: Japanese Cloisonné Enamels from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

14 Mar 2015 – 14 Jun 2015

Chester Beatty’s
A to Z: from Amulet to Zodiac

11 Jul 2014 – 1 Feb 2015

Through Space and Time: Contemporary Chinese Ceramics

8 Sep 2014 – 11 Jan 2015

Costumes Parisiens, fashion plates from 1912-1914

11 Oct 2013 – 30 Mar 2014

Chester Beatty: the Paintings

7 Sep 2012 – 31 Aug 2013

The tale of the Bamboo Cutter

11 May 2012 – 5 Aug 2012

China through the Lens of John Thomson: 1868-1872

17 Nov 2011 – 26 Feb 2012

The Art Books of Henri Matisse

26 May 2011 – 25 Sep 2011

Heroes and Kings of the Shahnama

17 Nov 2010 – 3 Apr 2011

Muraqqa’ Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library

25 Jun 2010 – 3 Oct 2010

A Sikh Face in Ireland: Photographic and Life History Project

7 May 2010 – 26 Sep 2010

MANI: The Lost Religion of Light

4 Jun 2009 – 4 Jun 2010

Telling Images of China: Narrative and Figure Paintings

12 Feb 2010 – 2 May 2010

Chinese Snuff Bottles

14 Sep 2009 – 15 Nov 2009

Artist’s Proof

15 Jan 2009 – 19 Apr 2009

Rembrandt: Etchings from the Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam

25 Jun 2008 – 14 Sep 2008

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

16 Nov 2007 – 17 Feb 2008

Leonardo: the Codex Leicester

13 Jun 2007 – 12 Aug 2007

Albrecht Dürer at the Chester Beatty Library

10 Nov 2005 – 16 Apr 2006

Persian Steel – A Mirror of Life in Iran

2 Jun 2004 – 15 Sep 2004

Blue

26 Feb 2004 – 18 Apr 2004

The Art of Hokusai

25 Jun 2003 – 30 Sep 2003

Ulysses in Hand

1 Jun 2000 – 30 Oct 2000

History of the collection