Events - Art History Festival - Association for Art History

We hope you enjoyed Art History Festival 2026 and look forward to seeing you in 2027.

AAH Event Cancelled

Dragons, Knights and Imagined Worlds: How Medieval Art Shaped Modern Fantasy

Association for Art History

This event has been cancelled. Why are dragons, heroes, and magical kingdoms...

Mon 5th Oct

Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Susanna and the Elders’ at the Queen’s House

Royal Museums Greenwich - Queen's House

In 2023, Royal Collection Trust announced the rediscovery of a painting of...

Mon 5th Oct

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Drawing Together exhibition: curators talk and tour

The Young Gallery, Salisbury

Join curators from The Young Gallery, Chippenham Museum and Bath Spa University...

Mon 5th Oct

5:15 pm – 6:30 pm

Teacher Twilight Winston Churchill: The Painter

The Wallace Collection

In an exclusive after-hours event for teachers, experience our Winston Churchill: The Painter exhibition. The...

Mon 5th Oct

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Online Talk: John Singer Sargent – Painting the Age of Elegance

Sheffield Museums Trust

In the 1890s John Singer Sargent complained to friends that he was...

Mon 5th Oct

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Youth Event

IN YOUR CLASSROOM – Courtauld Gallery Virtual Tour

Courtauld Gallery

Teacher bookings only. This offer is free of charge to all UK...

Mon 5th Oct – Fri 9th Oct

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

National Portrait Gallery Schools hub

National Portrait Gallery

Schools hub is the National Portrait Gallery's FREE online resource hub for...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

9:00 am – 11:00 pm

Portrait of a Poet: Henry Raeburn’s Lost Painting

National Trust for Scotland

Discover the story of Henry Raeburn's lost portrait of Robert Burns. Commissioned...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Surreal Solihull

Midlands Arts Centre (MAC)

This exhibition honours the legacy of Emmy Bridgwater, who called Solihull home...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

9:00 am – 7:00 pm

Dundee and the RSA

University of Dundee Museums

Over the years, more than 50 Dundee artists and architects have been...

Mon 5th Oct – Fri 9th Oct

9:30 am – 7:00 pm

Ashmolean Now: Soma Surovi Jannat – Climate Culture Care

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

This free exhibition (Gallery 8) showcases the work of Bangladesh-based artist Soma...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Pictures, Places & Story Spaces

Museum of Gloucester

Calling all art enthusiasts and mini readers! Looking for a peaceful family...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

May Morris: Crafting a Legacy

National Museums Liverpool, Lady Lever Art Gallery

This exhibition is a celebration of the wide-ranging creative output of Arts...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Sisters, Brothers and Others: Nationality and 20th-century Chinese Art

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Most citizens of the People's Republic of China are Han, an ethnicity...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Maritime Heritage Trail

The Classic Boat Centre Trust (The Classic Boat Museum)

The Maritime Heritage Trail celebrates the Yachting History of Cowes as depicted...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Colonial Views of India: Photographs by Eugene Clutternbuck Impey

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

This small free exhibition is the first to focus on photographs and...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Worn: the life within clothes

Manchester Art Gallery

Worn showcases the breadth of Manchester City Galleries’ fashion and dress collection through...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Won’t Sit Still

Manchester Art Gallery

Won’t Sit Still is a vibrant celebration of the gallery’s furniture and lighting...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

National Museums Liverpool at 40

National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

Forty years since the Merseyside Museums and Galleries Order was presented to...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Everything Must Go

Birmingham Museums Trust

This is the first major solo art exhibition by comedian Joe Lycett....

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Wings of the Sea

National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

Journey through the rich artistic heritage of China in this new display...

Mon 5th Oct – Sun 11th Oct

10:00 am – 5:00 pm