The aim of this paper is to reflect on how university library exhibitions can contribute to research communication by presenting research findings and scientific methodologies in an experiential way. The paper builds on reflections from a project at Mid Sweden university library during 2020–2022 where library staff collaborated with researchers in producing an exhibition on the theme of forests and sustainable development. The paper discusses how visual elements based on statistical information together with differing disciplinary perspectives of time was designed and organised as part of the exhibition. During the design and redesign of the exhibition, the results were continually evaluated by applying methods such as participatory observations and reflexive critique. The context for research-based exhibitions is research communication, which is an important part of democratic society. The need to share scientific knowledge and new findings with the public as well as with organisations and institutions is key to innovation, sustainable development, citizens' intellectual growth and to the general progress of avital deliberative democracy. Research communication deals not only with spreading (popularised) research findings from researchers to nonresearchers, but also with the dissemination of knowledge about the research process itself. Research communication can even function as an arena for public participation in research projects and provide legitimacy for researchers. The university library is well suited to support these ambitions. Research communication in the form of exhibitions at the university library has the potential to engage students and other library visitors through multimodal experiences. By combining and designing different modes ofcommunication such as images, texts, artefacts, sound and interactive elements in a spatial arrangement, the library can work together with the researchers, assisting them in presenting research to visitors in a new experiential way. Here, e.g., complex statistical data can be redesigned to be understood “at a glance” and be presented as part of a wider exhibition narrative.