More art inside the Abdus Salam Library

Albert Einsten (1963) by Doreen East Anziska 1920 - 1988.

This large bust of Einstein is located in the Group Study space on level 1 of the library. Very popular with students, we encourage you to take a photo with him and share it on your social media.

In 2008, as part of the refurbishment of level 1 of the Abdus Salam Library, Bob Brighton (1936 - 2017) donated a number of colourful artworks which you can now see on the walls in various library spaces and across the university.

A resident of Brighton, Bob Meaton, graduated from Brighton College of Art and Craft in 1958. He became a full-time artist in 1983 and held his first public show at the Worthing Museum in 1987. He exhibited under the name Bob Brighton.

What does science mean to you?

Do you feel positive about science?

Which words would you use to represent science?

Students talked to their peers, to professional scientists and to crafters outside the scientific community. They drew on these conversations to create this quilt.

The quilt was made by Emma Brown, Signe Klange and Angela Wipperman, 2015, inspired by Grayson Perry's piece 'Comfort Blanket' (2014). It was made as coursework for the MSc Science Communication and you can find it on level 1 of the library opposite the Assistive Technology Room.

A Higgs boson decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons in this simulation from the CMS experiment at CERN.

This image is mounted in the Wolfson Suite to the right of the main entrance to the library.

Download the original image from the CERN document server here. Copyright CERN.

This stone lion, which sits by the Information Hub, is from the original Imperial Institute opened in 1893.

You can find out more about the history of Imperial and the Imperial Institute at A timeline of College developments.