Portraying Lancaster
Location: Lancaster City Museum
What can a portrait tell us? Inspired by our new staircase display, which includes portraits...Monday 5th October
10:30 am – 4:30 pm
2026 Events
Dundee and the RSA
Location: Lamb Gallery
Over the years, more than 50 Dundee artists and architects have been elected to the...Monday 5th October
9:30 am – 7:00 pm
Ashmolean Now: Soma Surovi Jannat – Climate Culture Care
Location: Ashmolean Museum
This free exhibition (Gallery 8) showcases the work of Bangladesh-based artist Soma Surovi Jannat, who...Monday 5th October
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
National Gallery Artworks on site as part of Art on Your Doorstep
Location: Boston Manor House
Life-size reproductions of masterpieces from the National Gallery collection will be coming to Brentford as...Monday 5th October
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Sisters, Brothers and Others: Nationality and 20th-century Chinese Art
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Most citizens of the People's Republic of China are Han, an ethnicity often translated as...Monday 5th October
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Colonial Views of India: Photographs by Eugene Clutternbuck Impey
Location: Gallery 29 (Level 1)
This small free exhibition is the first to focus on photographs and negatives in the...Monday 5th October
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
National Portrait Gallery Schools workshops, events and resources
Location: National Portrait Gallery
Book your students for a visit to the National Portrait Gallery for FREE curriculum-linked workshops...Monday 5th October
10:15 am – 6:00 pm
National Portrait Gallery Schools hub
Location: Online
Schools hub is the National Portrait Gallery's FREE online resource hub for schools. From simple...Monday 5th October
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
Visit the Royal Library at Windsor Castle
Location: Windsor Castle
Enjoy a rare opportunity to visit the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, a space not...Monday 5th October
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Surreal Solihull
Location: Midlands Arts Centre (MAC)
This exhibition honours the legacy of Emmy Bridgwater, who called Solihull home in her final...Monday 5th October
9:00 am – 7:00 pm
A Home in Space: Edwin Morgan’s Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry
Location: National Gallery
Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) is remembered as a lyric poet yet his experiments in dadaist poetics...Tuesday 6th October
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm
Rewilding: Artists exploring the Natural World
Location: Online
Artinfusion: When we talk about "rewilding" — in ecology, in the natural world — it's...Tuesday 6th October
6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
Charmaine Watkiss: From the ones who came before
Location: RAMM
Nationally acclaimed British artist Charmaine Watkiss is well known for works that explore the botanical legacy and healing traditions of the Caribbean through which she traces a lineage to Africa. For RAMM’s...Tuesday 6th October
10:30 am – 5:00 pm
Curator Tour – Imprint: Women Artists and the Reading School of Art, 1890-1930
Location: 6 Redlands Road
Women played a vital role in the University of Reading's early School of Art. This...Tuesday 6th October
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Heritage Visit: The Life of Arthur Knighton-Hammond talk & Guided Tour of exhibition
Location: Nottingham Trent University
Join NTU at Brackenhurst Campus for an evening exploring the life and work of Nottingham-born...Tuesday 6th October
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bayeux Around Britain
Location: RAMM
This display of objects from RAMM’s collection, alongside digital assets from The British Museum and...Tuesday 6th October
10:30 am – 5:00 pm
Hidden Figures drawing workshop
Location: Bonington Atrium
Hidden Figures is a creative drawing workshop exploring representation, visibility and imagination in art history....Tuesday 6th October
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Inventing Artemisia: self-fashioning and identity in seventeenth-century Italy
Location: Online
Explore the life and work of Artemisia Gentileschi, a leading Baroque painter whose bold depictions...Tuesday 6th October
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
The art of Chinese gardens: nature and philosophy
Location: Online
Examine how the intersections of art, architecture, philosophy and sensory experience of Chinese gardens show...Tuesday 6th October
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Exeter’s Fine Art gallery: Highlights from the Collection
Location: Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
The fine art collection at RAMM is rich and varied. It consists of over 7000...Tuesday 6th October
10:30 am – 5:00 pm
Art Materials and Empire
Location: University of Birmingham
Where do art materials come from? Who was involved in their extraction and processing? What...Wednesday 7th October
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm