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ex‧hi‧bi‧tion W2 AC /ˌeksəˈbɪʃən, ˌeksɪˈbɪʃən/ noun
[Word Family: noun: exhibition, exhibitor, exhibit; verb: exhibit]
1. [COUNTABLE]
especially British English a show of paintings, photographs, or other objects that people can go to see
exhibition of
　 ▪ an exhibition of black and white photographs
stage/mount/hold etc an exhibition
　 ▪ The museum is staging an exhibition of Picasso’s work.

2. [UNCOUNTABLE]
when something such as a painting is shown in a public place
exhibition of
　 ▪ She never agreed to the public exhibition of her sculptures while she was still alive.
on exhibition
　 ▪ A collection of paintings by David Hockney is on exhibition at the Museum of Art.

3. exhibition of something
a situation in which someone shows a particular skill, feeling, or type of behaviour SYN display:
　 ▪ I’ve never seen such an exhibition of jealousy.

4. make an exhibition of yourself
to behave in a silly or embarrassing way SYN make a fool of yourself
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COLLOCATIONS
verbs
▪have an exhibition
　 ▪ The college is having an exhibition of the students’ work in April.
▪hold/mount/stage an exhibition formal (=have an exhibition)
　 ▪ Hayward Gallery is mounting an impressive exhibition of new British artists.
▪put on an exhibition (=have an exhibition)
　 ▪ Last summer the museum put on some wonderful exhibitions for children.
▪host an exhibition formal (=provide the place for an exhibition)
　 ▪ Boston’s Museum of Fine Art hosts temporary exhibitions alongside its permanent collection.
▪go to an exhibition (also attend/visit an exhibition formal)
　 ▪ We went to an exhibition of Russian art at the National Gallery.
▪see an exhibition
　 ▪ We also saw an exhibition of paintings by Sydney Lough Thompson, a New Zealand artist.
▪arrange/organize an exhibition
　 ▪ The trust arranged an exhibition of his drawings in New York.
▪promote an exhibition (=tell the public about it)
　 ▪ Our press officer contacted the local radio and TV stations to promote the exhibition.
adjectives
▪a big/large exhibition
　 ▪ This is the largest exhibition of its kind that we have ever seen in London.
▪an important exhibition
　 ▪ an important exhibition of twentieth century art
▪a major exhibition (=large and important)
　 ▪ His work is the subject of a major exhibition at the National Gallery.
▪a small exhibition
　 ▪ The library held a small exhibition showcasing the work of local artists.
▪a permanent exhibition
　 ▪ The museum hosts a permanent exhibition of Boston’s history.
▪a temporary exhibition
　 ▪ Temporary exhibitions are usually held in the basement.
▪a touring/travelling exhibition (=one that moves from place to place)
　 ▪ The touring exhibition is scheduled to be in Dallas from March until June.
▪a retrospective exhibition (=one that shows work from the past)
　 ▪ a retrospective exhibition celebrating 150 years of photography
exhibition + NOUN
▪an exhibition centre British English, an exhibition center American English (=a large building for holding exhibitions)
　 ▪ The exhibition will be held in the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.
▪an exhibition hall
　 ▪ There’s a large exhibition hall on the ground floor.
▪an exhibition stand (=a stand for showing things at an exhibition)
　 ▪ He took up his position at the exhibition stand.
▪exhibition space (=space where exhibitions can be held)
　 ▪ The building provides 125,000 square metres of exhibition space in 12 halls.
▪an exhibition venue (=a place where exhibitions can be held)
　 ▪ We are still looking for suitable exhibition venues.
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THESAURUS
▪exhibition an event at which a collection of paintings, interesting objects etc are shown to the public for a period of time :
　 ▪ All the photographs in the exhibition are for sale.
　 ▪ The Great Outdoors Exhibition is a great place to find out about new outdoors activities.
▪show an exhibition. Show is less formal than exhibition. It can be used about small events as well as big public ones :
　 ▪ The artist is preparing a show at the Museum of Modern Art.
　 ▪ He is putting on a one-man show in a local gallery.
　 ▪ a trade show
　 ▪ the London Motor Show at Earl’s Court
▪exhibit American English an exhibition :
　 ▪ an exhibit of Western paintings and sculptures
▪fair an event at which people or businesses show or sell their products, which is often not open to the public :
　 ▪ the Frankfurt Book Fair for publishers and the media
▪exposition a large and important public event at which people or businesses show or sell their products :
　 ▪ 177 galleries from nineteen countries will take part in the Chicago International Art Exposition.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exhibition centre
▪ The exhibition centre has an interesting display of contemporary art.
an exhibition of sculpture
▪ a large exhibition of modern sculpture
ExCeL Exhibition Centre, the
mounted...exhibition
▪ The National Gallery mounted an exhibition of Danish painting.
sports/exhibition/banqueting etc hall
▪ The school has a new sports hall.
▪ Five hundred people filled the lecture hall.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ A newsletter, an annual exhibition and a directory of X products are also planned.
▪ But in high school his passion had turned to painting, and his work regularly appeared in annual exhibitions.
▪ Temporary exhibitions: Annual exhibition to coincide with the street fair in September.
▪ Exhibition date: Binchester's annual exhibition will be held on June 27 and 28.
▪ Management should agree on an annual major unifying exhibition theme which should relate to our main activities.
▪ Regular exhibitions of members' work are organised by the society, the annual exhibition being held at the City Art Gallery.
current
▪ The current exhibition includes one hundred paintings, drawings, prints, books and manuscript illuminations.
▪ Contact the museum or watch local press for a comprehensive list of current exhibitions.
▪ There are examples of the interactive displays in the current Babbage exhibition, which runs until 31st December.
▪ You will find catalogues for the current exhibition in the stands near the display cases.
international
▪ Are you going to go on with your international exhibitions?
▪ The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall.
▪ Sykes obtained awards for his signalling and railway safety inventions at many international exhibitions, notably at Paris in 1881.
large
▪ Why have you opted for a relatively modestly sized premises rather than a larger exhibition area?
▪ This is a large exhibition with 135 paintings and 140 drawings and engravings.
▪ This is the largest exhibition held on Blake, and one to get lost, and even lose your head, in.
▪ Norwich had rarely seen such a large exhibition of contemporary art involving alternative art practices.
major
▪ This has allowed short term seated events to fill the gaps in the programme between major exhibitions.
▪ Margarett had had five major exhibitions in New York, one in Chicago, and one in Cambridge.
▪ Both have figured in the last major exhibitions devoted to these painters.
▪ It is the first major Schiele exhibition to tour the United States in 34 years.
▪ The ex-nonconformists have emerged, and were honoured in 1987 with an officially sponsored major exhibition in Moscow.
▪ Concurrent with major exhibition at Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
new
▪ Since then much has been done to improve and protect the area including a new information and exhibition centre and picnic areas.
▪ Frequent flying Increasingly, Brezzo finds himself out of town, either to raise dollars or to secure new exhibitions.
▪ The new exhibition areas will allow the Trust to display even more of the contents of this remarkable time capsule.
▪ Based on the new permanent exhibition at the museum.
▪ How will the new exhibition differ in its treatment of your earlier work?
▪ But there is a good deal more to him than that, as a new exhibition at Oxford's Museum of Modern Art reveals.
▪ The new exhibition is large and comprehensive, but narrow in its focus.
permanent
▪ A permanent exhibition on the history of the valley is to be established near the dam in the early 1990s.
▪ The Ground Floor should be reserved for a permanent exhibition on the work of the Garden.
▪ Based on the new permanent exhibition at the museum.
▪ His two front windows were a permanent exhibition for the benefit of passers-by.
▪ A Merkhet is on permanent exhibition in the Science Museum, London.
▪ The museum's permanent exhibition is basically an educational trot through London's history from prehistory to the present day.
▪ The Museum has a permanent exhibition depicting the social and natural history of the Daventry area.
▪ The Tudor wing was constructed in Elizabethan times, and now features various permanent and temporary exhibitions.
public
▪ Then the public exhibition of the glass.
▪ The public exhibitions now being mounted and the publication of this leaflet by the Regional Council are intended to augment these procedures.
▪ It's the first time that a public exhibition has been staged in a prison.
▪ Running until 10 May, this is Paris's first public exhibition of Ayme's work.
▪ A public exhibition is envisaged showing those proposals within the overall context of the A3 Petersfield-Liphook bypass.
▪ Pictures of the gold, diamond rings and expensive watches the two accumulated were shown in public anti-corruption exhibitions.
▪ A public exhibition of your finds at a library or other public building is a very useful public relations exercise.
recent
▪ The 1980s saw her return to more traditional media, and her recent exhibition contained paintings, drawings and prints.
▪ In recent years exhibitions and displays have been presented according to this dialectical principle with increasing frequency.
small
▪ Within the larger Dean Chapel, de las Casas has placed a small exhibition and conference building.
▪ There are halls for banqueting up to 3,000, for small exhibitions, industrial theatre and simultaneous translation.
special
▪ We might participate in special exhibitions, which we are doing right now.
▪ One of the reasons why it has been able to do so is its policy of charging for special exhibitions.
▪ Further Information - A 24 house answering service provides details of opening times and latest information on special exhibitions and forthcoming events.
▪ There we will have room for special exhibitions.
▪ Now his work is being featured in a special exhibition.
▪ Many have their own programmes that include special exhibitions or films on the Holocaust, while others treat the matter summarily.
▪ There is also a series of special exhibitions throughout the year.
▪ Series of special exhibitions throughout the year.
temporary
▪ Here are held temporary art exhibitions.
▪ This has galleries on two levels, the lower one for the recently discovered paintings, the upper one for temporary exhibitions.
▪ Workshop Museum also houses temporary art exhibitions.
▪ An intensive programme of temporary exhibitions has also been organised by the Centro Reina Sofía for 1992.
▪ Elsewhere, there are puppets, a jumble of toys, a vast doll collection and excellent temporary exhibitions.
▪ The extension would provide space for offices, cloakrooms, a souvenir shop and bookshop, the library and temporary exhibitions.
▪ The adjacent Museum and Art Gallery features many temporary exhibitions.
▪ Will the reorganisation affect the museum's capacity to present temporary exhibitions?
touring
▪ Meanwhile, of course, there is this touring exhibition.
▪ This was a talk on William Blake, timed to coincide with an internationally touring exhibition of this artist's work.
▪ Regular programme of temporary and touring exhibitions.
▪ These photographs are now available for hire as a touring exhibition.
NOUN
art
▪ Read in studio A giant art exhibition is taking place at two hundred sites across one county.
▪ Family affair: It's a family affair for a father and daughter whose art exhibition opens in Stockton today.
▪ Craft fairs, local events, bands and art exhibitions will all be on offer.
▪ Typical open air art exhibition - this one is in Via Francesco Sforza Milan did not survive the war intact.
▪ Dunbar progressed meanwhile with his art exhibitions.
▪ Workshop Museum also houses temporary art exhibitions.
▪ Magee College hosts a programme of special events that includes art exhibitions and concerts by folk musicians of local and national reputation.
centre
▪ The girls who pile into the exhibition centre are usually accompanied by a flock of female relatives.
▪ Since then much has been done to improve and protect the area including a new information and exhibition centre and picnic areas.
▪ In the other ad, Customs, Sandown exhibition centre becomes an airport.
▪ In June 1991, the Jeu de Paume reopened its doors, this time as an exhibition centre devoted to contemporary art.
▪ We brought out from London a large quantity of copies of the supplement for giving out at the exhibition centre.
▪ In the evening there was a dinner-dance at the hotel by the exhibition centre.
▪ The most recent example is an application by MacLeod Estates to construct an 80 seater restaurant and exhibition centre at Glenbrittle.
game
▪ They invited to the Hong Kong Sevens to play in the fifteen-man exhibition game beforehand.
▪ After two exhibition games, they know all they need to know.
▪ League plans exhibition games in stadium.
▪ Tagliabue said the system would be tested first at exhibition games that are nationally televised.
▪ Plummer, who had appeared in 133 straight regular-season games, broke his left wrist in the first exhibition game last month.
▪ Louis Cardinals said Rick Ankiel won't be used in their first five exhibition games.
▪ Fans in Atlanta still talk about the shot Linares hit off the facade in left field in a 1993 exhibition game.
▪ And when the Raiders came back to test the waters with exhibition games, the joint was stuffed to the rafters.
games
▪ League plans exhibition games in stadium.
▪ After two exhibition games, they know all they need to know.
▪ Tagliabue said the system would be tested first at exhibition games that are nationally televised.
▪ Louis Cardinals said Rick Ankiel won't be used in their first five exhibition games.
▪ And when the Raiders came back to test the waters with exhibition games, the joint was stuffed to the rafters.
▪ The premium on performance shifts the focus this spring to the exhibition games, starting in another week.
hall
▪ The outer concourse in glass and iron had its architectural roots in the exhibition halls of the nineteenth century.
▪ It includes an exhibition hall, an auditorium, bookshop and restaurant.
▪ It links Hammersmith Broadway with the brutal concrete-and-steel Thirties exhibition halls at Olympia.
▪ To have a ground floor exhibition hall will also have one great practical advantage.
▪ Ideally situated for Conference Centre, exhibitions halls and shops.
▪ There have been some notable conservation conversions, with the Gare d'Orsay in Paris, for instance, becoming an exhibition hall.
▪ At one stage, the exhibition hall got so crowded the doors had to be closed.
space
▪ And we were hard to contact - access to exhibition space means you can be found.
▪ The museum is already preparing for a huge building project that will almost double its exhibition space.
▪ Proper gallery or exhibition space is expensive to hire, prohibitively so for the average professional artist.
▪ Three floors of exhibition spaces are linked by a new stair tower, placed to the rear of the main warehouse block.
▪ It consists of only one small white room which doubles as shop, library, and exhibition space on Schaperstraße 11.
▪ Others suspect that exhibition spaces might simply be veils for new real-estate deals.
▪ Charged approximately 7.50 per hour for the public meeting, and a lesser amount for the exhibition space.
▪ About twenty years ago department stores in Tokyo started to make parts of their buildings into exhibition spaces and called them museums.
VERB
accompany
▪ Also organized to accompany the exhibition were story-telling sessions for both children and adults.
▪ A catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibition, which runs from 24 November to 18 December.
▪ Voice over Mary Greenstead's book is accompanied by an exhibition at Cheltenham Museum.
hold
▪ Here are held temporary art exhibitions.
▪ Leigh's retainer as a consultant has supported the space, which held five exhibitions until it closed this fall.
▪ In 1933 Schulz held exhibitions of his drawings and engravings in Warsaw.
▪ The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, which held its inaugural exhibition in 1888, came into being through his initiative.
▪ The Art Gallery holds frequent exhibitions and concerts.
include
▪ The museum also includes an exhibition of artefacts and pictures showing the history of the Northamptonshire Regiment.
▪ It is to include design studios, exhibition facilities, a development and testing laboratory and administrative offices.
▪ Magee College hosts a programme of special events that includes art exhibitions and concerts by folk musicians of local and national reputation.
▪ The painting will be included in an exhibition until 30 April of works acquired over the past ten years.
▪ It was a fascinating experience to be included in an exhibition of this sort.
▪ It includes an exhibition hall, an auditorium, bookshop and restaurant.
▪ Many have their own programmes that include special exhibitions or films on the Holocaust, while others treat the matter summarily.
▪ A number of engraved portraits of Norfolk-born naval heros are included in the exhibition.
mount
▪ To mark the completion of the inventory, the Museum is mounting an exhibition which runs until 19 July.
▪ From time to time, though, he would mount an exhibition.
▪ The director Peter Volkwein plans to mount exhibitions and encourage symposia, discussions and concerts of concrete music.
▪ A decision to mount temporary, changing exhibitions should help resolve this problem.
open
▪ Black-and-white pictures that are closer to exalted family snapshots than art photography open the exhibition.
play
▪ They invited to the Hong Kong Sevens to play in the fifteen-man exhibition game beforehand.
▪ Karros is recovering from a strained hamstring and has yet to play in an exhibition game.
▪ Diego Maradona played in a charity exhibition on Wednesday in apparent defiance of his worldwide suspension for use of cocaine.
show
▪ The Fotogallery in Cardiff is showing RadicalChip, an exhibition of photography, video and mixed medial installations.
▪ Examples of the work of the four artists will be showing in an exhibition at the Tate Gallery from Nov 4-29.
▪ The resulting work was shown in an exhibition at the National Gallery in London, in 1987.
▪ Perhaps visit some of the pavilions showing specialised exhibitions of exotic flowers, trees and plants - a truly breathtaking sight.
▪ Other DCE-compliant technologies shown at the exhibition included: Transarc Corp's Encina transaction processing monitor.
▪ Pictures of the gold, diamond rings and expensive watches the two accumulated were shown in public anti-corruption exhibitions.
▪ Provided it doesn't melt, she now plans to show it at an exhibition in London.
stage
▪ She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year.
▪ The Craftworks gallery in Belfast's Linenhall Street is currently staging an exhibition featuring products geared towards children.
visit
▪ In September 1882 she visited the Tynemouth exhibition.
▪ I have just visited the Hilliard Society exhibition where I found your magazine.
▪ Please give a big build-up to your class members and encourage them to visit the exhibition bringing along families and friends.
▪ Almost certainly Bakst visited the exhibition of modern art at the Rue Huyghens.
▪ Pollock visited the exhibition daily and assimilated its iconography and stylistic innovation.
▪ I said that we would of course be happy for his parishioners to visit our exhibitions.
▪ Exhibitions Another useful way of finding out what is available from publishers is to visit their stands at exhibitions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
travelling musician/circus/exhibition etc
▪ A Bradford Museums Service travelling exhibition.
▪ However, John Reynolds, the latest addition to this high-speed travelling circus, could be one of the surprise packets.
▪ The stables turned out to be remarkably solid structures for a travelling circus, made mostly of wood with canvas roofs.
▪ This year a travelling circus put up its tent and offered the public a horse-riding show.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Have you seen the O'Keefe exhibition yet?
▪ Many of the photographs on exhibition were taken by artists who worked primarily in other media.
▪ The exhibition of works by Hans Memling opens next week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An exhibition of Bernard Lavier's latest sculptures can be seen until the middle of June.
▪ But pleasure, and intellectual challenge, is in response to individual installations rather than to the exhibition as a whole.
▪ Electrical supplies and additional lighting can be booked for exhibition purposes.
▪ For example, I just returned from an exhibition and wrote a 6,000 word report in one burst in my hotel room.
▪ Science follows immediately, and the students quickly gather in groups to work on their exhibition in this area.
▪ Throughout its day at Pollock and Searby's Mill Lane premises the exhibition was visited by company staff.