Organisational loans

State Library is proud to loan our collection items to other cultural organisations for inclusion in their exhibitions.

If your organisation is interested in borrowing State Library collection items for an exhibition, please refer to Loans for Exhibition Policy. For informal advice regarding the program, please email the Registrar using the below contact details.

Registrar, State Library of Queensland

Phone
+ 61 7 3840 7889

Email
Registration@slq.qld.gov.au

Current loans

State Library collection items have been included in diverse exhibitions at a variety of venues. We have recently loaned the following items:

Portrait painting in gold frame of Charles Cochran-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington [Work of Art] 1895, by Robert Duddingstone Herdman,

Since 2016 the Charles Cochran-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington [Work of Art] 1895, by Robert Duddingstone Herdman.
Acc. 29900 has been on loan to Government House Queensland, Brisbane. The portrait can be viewed when there is an open house or special event at Government house, Brisbane.

Portrait of the Honourable Sir James Cockle.

Honourable Sir James Cockle [Work of Art] ca. 1870, Acc. 5493 is on display among other Queensland Supreme Court judges, on loan to the Supreme Court of Queensland.
You can view the portrait on level 3, QEII Law Courts Building, Banco Court foyer.

Framed oil painting of creek at Tamborine Mountain, Queensland.

Pair of framed oil paintings of creek and waterfall scenes at Tamborine Mountain, 1899, Acc. 28915 are on loan in the Drawing Room at Government House Queensland. The paintings can be viewed when there is an open house or special event at Government House.

Framed oil painting of waterfall at Tamborine Mountain, Queensland.

Open book, 2 postcards, typed document on display in glass case

Various collection items are on loan to Queensland Museum Kurilpa as part of the Say Our Name: Australian South Sea Islanders exhibition from 23 August 2024 - 13 July 2025.

A framed poster with the title Break the Silence Rally, one Pride Week flyer, a bookmark, and a health check flyer in a lit glass display case.

Various collection items from the LGBT History Project Collection are on loan to Queensland Museum Kurilpa as part of the Secrets: Objects of Intrigue exhibition. The exhibition runs from 13 December 2024 to 13 July 2025.

Previous loans

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery borrowed three artists' books for inclusion in Unbound: Books Reimagined exhibition from October 2024 to February 2025.

Selection of tea towels on display in a gallery.

Gympie Regional Art Gallery borrowed a selection of tea towels from the Glenn R. Cooke Souvenir Textiles Collection for inclusion in Queensland to a T exhibition from November 2024 to January 2025.

Darkened room with four framed photographs with silhouette of person on right hand side.

QAGOMA borrowed four plates featuring Where the Wild Things Are, Pictures by Maurice Sendak / [with] introduction by Maurice Sendak for inclusion in Fairy Tales exhibition from December 2023 to April 2024.

National Museum Australia in Canberra borrowed Dalleburra Aboriginal clan protective copper breastplate, ca. 1863-1899, TR 1867/364 as part of the Landmarks : People and Places across Australia exhibition
This collection item is from the Christison Family Papers and Lammermoor Station Records 1857-1989 and was a long-term loan from 2011 to 2024.

Tea towels displayed at Cobb & Co Museum, Toowoomba.

The Queensland Museum Network borrowed Glenn R. Cooke Souvenir Textiles Collection items for their Queensland to a T exhibition held at Queensland Museum Cobb+Co, Toowoomba from November 2023 to March 2024.

Two life-sized girl fibreglass donation boxes in the shape of young girls.

CPL – Choice, Passion, Life borrowed nine collection items from the Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland Records, John Oxley Library collection to exhibit at their 75th anniversary in March 2023.

Artist book on display at QUT Art Museum.

QUT Art Museum borrowed the artist book The end papers / [Mona Ryder] for inclusion in Minefield: The Art of Mona Ryder exhibition from November 2022 to February 2023.

Segar Passi art works displayed on white art gallery walls.

Cairns Art Gallery borrowed six Segar Passi watercolours from the Margaret Lawrie Collection of Torres Strait Islands Material 1964-1988. These artworks were included in the Segar Passi Meriba Ged A Gur (Our Land and Sea) exhibition from October to December 2022.

Watercolour painting of Stanthorpe, Queensland in 1888.

Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery borrowed two paintings from John Oxley Library collection, 31159 Robert Rayment Stanthorpe works of art 1888 and 4490 Henry Rielly Painting Bush scene for inclusion in Then | Now | ART exhibition from March to May 2022.