The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust. Visit to view our latest exhibition 'Looted: Two Families, Nazi Theft and the Search for Restitution' which unearths difficult questions about memory, responsibility and justice through the personal story of two families' project of restitution and restoration.

Barbara Weiss Architects, 2011

Bloomsbury holds the densest concentration of museums, universities, and libraries in London, housing an array of objects and spaces for teaching and research. These institutions' architecture has structured knowledge and shaped scholars’ experience over two and a half centuries – forming a built record of the values associated with learning from the Enlightenment to today's entrepreneurial knowledge economy.

Sydney Smirke, 1854

This innovative housing model accommodates a family of 16, showcasing adaptive design that harmonizes with its environment. The structure features pioneering use of bamboo and palm materials, incorporates buoyant platforms, and thoughtfully connects interior spaces to the waterline, blending sustainability with aesthetics.

Two Grade II listed buildings, 4-storey yellow stock brick with a rusticated stucco base. No. 57 has an attic level with a garden at the rear. Staircases are intact and each room still retains its high ceilings and ornamental fireplaces. The garden behind No. 58 has been developed to include an additional meeting room, and an interior development has created conference rooms in the lower ground floor

James Burton, 1803

In this half-day workshop, we invite participants to join us in a “collective dwelling” in / on Gordon Square in the heart of Bloomsbury. Mobilising dwelling as both a praxis of being in space and of slow thinking, we invite participants to share time with us as we collectively map this square along the axes of space, sound, senses, memory and meaning.

Thomas Cubitt, 1820

Richard Griffiths Architects is a multi-award winning practice specializing in the Heritage Conservation of old buildings and new build within an historic context. The practice is opening the office to people who are interested to learn more about our work and projects. There will also be project displays, a curated library, and presentations from specialists in the field of conservation.

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1713 terraced house with 1914 hall at rear. Notable renovated Arts and Crafts interior. Newly refurbished glass vaulted courtyard. Portraits of Guild Masters since 1884.

Georgian, 1713

St George's Bloomsbury is one of the twelve new churches designed and paid for under the 1711 Act of Parliament for building fifty new Churches, and the sixth and final London Church designed by Hawksmoor.

Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1720

Pushkin House is an independent arts, cultural and social space. In dialogue with other regions, we focus on the contested legacies, tumultuous present and possible futures of Russian, Eastern European, and post-Soviet geo-cultural spaces. We will be contributing to this year's Open House Festival through a programme of events and initiatives at our Grade-II Listed Building in Bloomsbury Square.

Henry Flitcroft, 1744

The leafy Georgian streets of Bloomsbury were shaken up in the 1930s by a new wave of development, from great academic institutions to speculative flats for modern urban living, plus probably the most stylish car showroom in London. We'll explore the range of 1930s architectural styles used in some famous and not so famous buildings, and even take a peek inside where we can.

Grade II-listed Georgian domestic building c.1760, formerly part of the Bedford Estate. Interior refurbished 1925 to form lecture hall (restored 2014), library, bookshop and offices. Oak woodwork and green Doulton tiles line the staircase.

Unknown, 1760