plymouth city museum

Museum talks and tours mark new art exhibition, local history and Chinese New Year

Visitors to the City Museum and Art Gallery this January can enjoy a busy programme of lunchtime lectures and Art Bite tours.

The Museum’s popular Lunchtime Talks programme re-starts after the festive break with a presentation called ‘Get Your Skates On!’ on Tuesday 21 January. Local author and history enthusiast Di Lawer will discuss how the leisure activity of roller skating was...

Museum’s family events go from South Pole to Wild Wild West

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is travelling the globe with its family-friendly events in late January and early February.

Children and their adults can discover some of the strange creatures that live in the coldest places on the planet in ‘A Cold World’ on Saturday 18 January. From giant sea spiders to woolly rhinoceros teeth fossils there will be many different things to see...

Artists Make Faces

Lucian Freud, LS Lowry, Frank Auerbach and Marc Quinn are amongst the internationally celebrated artists whose works will be on display in ‘Artists Make Faces’, an exhibition of nearly 60 artworks at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery this autumn.

Artists Make Faces (21 September to 7 December), is the vision of Monika Kinley OBE, a pioneering curator who moved to Plymouth in 2005 and who was recognised in the 2012 New Year’s Honours List for her services to the arts.

The exhibition, which is presented in partnership with Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, is a...