What to do · Oxford
One-hour guided tour of the Bodleian Library
Information
- From
- £17 person
- Duration
- 1 h
- Season
- All year, daily
- Who it's for
- From age 11, with an adult
The way into the old rooms of the university library, on Broad Street. The one-hour tour takes in the Divinity School, a Gothic room with a carved stone vault, the Convocation House and the Chancellor's Court, and goes up to Duke Humfrey's Library, the medieval reading room with its chained books. It is in English and only for over-11s, accompanied by an adult.
Tickets go on sale online on the 1st and 15th of each month, at 9:00 UK time, and weekend slots disappear fast. There is a shorter 30-minute tour, and another that combines the city with the inside of the Radcliffe Camera.
Both rooms are Harry Potter filming locations, according to the library itself: Duke Humfrey's Library was the Hogwarts library and the Divinity School the infirmary, in The Philosopher's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets and The Goblet of Fire. If you only want the Divinity School, there is a free-visit 15-minute option for £3, timed entry, with no age limit; Duke Humfrey's can only be entered on a guided tour. The library opens to visitors Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 17:00, and Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 17:00.
With teenagers
