Museum of Richmond

2020s

• 2025–26 Trailblazing Women – Richmond's Sporting Superstars, featuring tennis players Kitty Godfree (1896–1992), Betty Nuthall (1911–1983) and Gem Hoahing (1920–2015), and golfer Pamela Barton (1917–1943), all of them from what is now the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames^[19][20]
• 2024–25 Wish You Were Here: From Horace Walpole to Ted Lasso, about tourism in Richmond^[21]
• 2023–24 Artificial Silk: From Kew to the World, about viscose rayon, which was invented in Kew at the beginning of the 20th century^[22]
• 2022–23 Richmond Remembers: 100 Years of the Poppy Factory,^[23] which was founded in 1922 to offer employment opportunities to wounded soldiers returning from the First World War and moved to Richmond in 1926
• 2021–22 OT50 – Fifty Years of the Orange Tree Theatre,^[19][24][25] founded in 1971 in a small room above the Orange Tree pub opposite the present building, which opened in 1991 and was built specifically as a theatre in the round^[26][27]
• 2021 The King's Observatory: Richmond's Science Story, about the history of the King's Observatory in Old Deer Park.^[19] The observatory was completed in 1769,^[28] in time for King George III's observation of the transit of Venus that occurred on 3 June in that year.
• 2020–21 Queen's Road: 500 Years of History, about Queen's Road, Richmond, a historic road that runs from Sheen Road to the top of Richmond Hill.^[29] As physical access to the museum was affected by government restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, a digital version was also produced.^[30]

2010s

• 2019–20 Celebrating 800 years of St. Mary Magdalene at the heart of Richmond, about Richmond's historic parish church^[31]
• 2018–19 Museum of Richmond 30th anniversary exhibition: 30 years, 30 people, 30 objects^[32][33]
• 2018 Archaeology: Richmond's Prehistory^[34]
• 2017–18 Poverty, which looked at Richmond from 1600 to 1948, from the perspective of people who were poor, and included the history of the town's workhouse and almshouses and the effects of the Poor Laws^[35]
• 2017 Old Palace Lane: Medieval to Modern Richmond^[36]
• 2016–17 The Royal Star & Garter: 100 Years of Care, marking the centenary of the founding, in Richmond, of the first Star and Garter Home^[37]
• 2015–16 The Battle of Britain 75 years on – Richmond Remembers the Second World War^[19]
• 2014–15 1914–1918 Richmond at Home and at War: Local stories and their international links, Richmond's experience of the First World War^[38][39]
• 2014 Encountering the Unchartered and back – Three explorers: Ball, Vancouver and Burton, telling the story of explorers Henry Lidgbird Ball, George Vancouver and Richard Burton and their connections with Richmond^[40]
• 2013 Living and Dying in 19th Century Richmond, exploring the lives of some of Richmond's 19th-century residents^[2][41]
• 2012–13 The Building of a Borough, showcasing building plans held in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames’ Local Studies Collection
• 2012 Royal Minstrels to Rock and Roll: 500 years of music-making in Richmond^[42]
• 2012 Happy and Glorious: popular Royal celebration and commemoration in Richmond^[43]
• 2010–11 Richmond Theatre: Through the Stages, celebrating the history of Richmond Theatre, which opened in 1899 and was designed by theatre architect Frank Matcham^[19][44]
• 2010 How the Vote Was Won: Art, Theatre and Women's Suffrage^[45]

2000s

• 2009–10 Richmond – From Page to Screen^[46]
• 2009 From Henry VII to Henry VIII, marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Henry VII at Richmond Palace and the accession to the throne of his son Henry VIII^[47]
• 2007 The Two Richmonds – A Celebration of their Twinning, marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown and the twinning relationship of Richmond, Surrey and Richmond, Virginia^[48]

• 2007 Trading in Human Lives: The Richmond Connection, on Richmond and the slave trade^[49]
• 2006–07 Men Remade: Paul Drury's War in Richmond,^[19] featuring the work, particularly during the Second World War, of the artist and printmaker Paul Drury (1903–1987)
• 2006 A Rich Heritage, featuring items from the borough's Local Studies Collection^[5]
• 2005–06 Turner-Upon-Thames, focusing on the period when the artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) lived in Isleworth and in Twickenham^[19]
• 2005 Barnes & Mortlake Past, celebrating 50 years of the founding of Barnes and Mortlake History Society^[16][50]
• 2004–05 Britflicks-on-Thames: Film Studios of the Borough and Beyond
• 2004 The Sensational Miss Braddon, about the author Mary Braddon (1835–1915) who lived and died in Richmond and is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret^[51]
• 2003 Without Exception, a selection of original prints by Thomas Rowlandson of The English Dance of Death (1815–16)^[52]
• 2003 The Virgin Queen in Richmond, marking the 400th anniversary of the death, at Richmond Palace, of Elizabeth I
• 2002 The Fight To Save The View, marking the 100th anniversary of the Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act which has protected the view from Richmond Hill
• 2002 Stage by Stage: Richmond's Theatrical Heritage,^[53] looking at theatres in Richmond since the Elizabethan era
• 2001–02 Richmond's River: Pictures of and inspired by the Thames in Richmond^[54]
• 2000 From Canvas to Camera: George Hilditch 1803–1857^[16]

1990s

• 1998–99 Arthur Hughes: The Last Pre-Raphaelite,^[55][19][56] about the Pre-Raphaelite artist Arthur Hughes, who died at his house on Kew Green in 1915 and is buried in Richmond Cemetery^[57]
• 1997–98 Richmond Women: Face to Face, famous women who lived in Richmond^[58]
• 1997 The Henry Doulton Legacy: 120 Years of Royal Doulton^[59]
• 1997 The Best Years of Our Lives? Going to school in Richmond – reminiscences of Richmond school days^[59]
• 1996–97 Spencer Gore in Richmond, about the artist Spencer Gore who lived in Richmond and died there in 1914^[60][61]
• 1995–96 Past & Present: The Changing Face of Richmond^[62]
• 1995 Going Shopping!^[62]
• 1995 The Artist's Inspiration: Views of Richmond upon Thames^[62]

• 1994–95 The Factory of Remembrance: The Poppy & the Royal British Legion Poppy Factory^[19]
• 1994 Father & Son: The Art of Roland & Bernard Batchelor. Roland Batchelor (1889–1990) and his son Bernard (1924–2012), who was born in Teddington, were both watercolour artists;^[63] Roland was also a draughtsman and a printmaker.
• 1994 'Simplest Country Gentlefolk': The Royal Family at Kew 1727–1841
• 1993–94 Prospects About Richmond: mid-18th century drawings and prints by Augustin Heckel^[64]
• 1993 Richmond at War: The Civilian Experience 1939–45^[16]
• 1992 Mr K: The legend of Edmund Kean. Edmund Kean (1787–1833) was actor-manager of the original Richmond Theatre on Richmond Green from 1831 until his death in 1833. He is buried at Richmond's historic parish church, St Mary Magdalene.^[65]
• 1992 Farewell Ice-Rink, marking the closure that year of Richmond Ice Rink which, when it opened in 1928, had the longest ice surface in any indoor rink in the world^[66]
• 1991–92 Mr Rowlandson's Richmond: Thomas Rowlandson's Drawings of Richmond-upon-Thames, about the artist and caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827), who was noted for his political satire and social observation
• 1991 The Richmond Royal Horse Show,^[67] an event held regularly in Richmond from 1892 to 1967^[68]
• 1991 Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press in Richmond 1914-1924^[69]

1980s

• 1989 Pissarro in Richmond, about the painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) and other artistic members of his family who lived in Kew and Richmond^[16][70]