Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

Lunchtime talk, The Voyage of the Mayflower, Myth and Reality

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery's building is currently closed for redevelopment. While this is happening, it is running its popular Lunchtime Talks programme at the Plymouth Athenaeum. Come along and enjoy this talk. We all know a little about the Mayflower and its passengers but what’s the real story and how much is myth? The facts are much more interesting than most people imagine. Why did they sail from Plymouth? Were they the first settlers in North America? Why did they name their settlement Plymouth? They endured huge storms, were almost shipwrecked and even had a birth at...

11 is heaven for Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery has been awarded VisitEngland’s ‘Quality Assured Visitor Attraction’ accreditation for the 11th time in a row.

The Museum was recently inspected by an assessor for the Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Scheme (VAQAS) and was described as ‘very professionally set out and managed with many excellent and varied exhibits and high standards of...

Hidden in Plain Sight

See key highlights from the city's abstract art collection, many of which have not been out on display for a number of years.

Hidden in Plain Sight includes paintings by major British artists such as leading St Ives School artist, Patrick Heron (1920-1999); Devon-born Justin Knowles (1935-2004) whose innovative works are held by the Tate, the Arts Council and other public collections throughout the UK and abroad, and former 1991 Turner Prize nominee, Ian Davenport (1966- ).

The exhibition also includes sculptures from Barbara Hepworth and Margaret Lovell, as well...

New exhibition highlights city's abstract art collection

A new exhibition showcasing some key highlights from the city's abstract art collection is now on display at the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.

Hidden in Plain Sight includes paintings by major British artists such leading St Ives School artist Patrick Heron (1920-1999); Devon-born Justin Knowles (1935-2004), whose innovative works are held by the Tate, the Arts Council and...

Drake Circus to host pop-up museum

Shoppers at Drake Circus will be treated to a pop-up museum for a chance to stock up on some interesting local history and culture in between bargain hunting during this half-term break.

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is teaming up with the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA) and the South West Image Bank (SWIB) to provide a pop...

The Imaginators

Create, enjoy, explore - fun sessions for the under 5s

Play, explore, paint, stick, sing or make - anything's possible in an Imaginators session as your pre-school children are taken on a journey around our galleries, objects and paintings by one of our Learning Officers, having loads of fun as they go.

The children learn to build relationships and try their hand at a variety of creative activities using their developing skills - and their imaginations!

Younger siblings/older babies are welcome too.

Just £2 per child per session plus £1...

The Imaginators

Create, enjoy, explore - fun sessions for the under 5s

Play, explore, paint, stick, sing or make - anything's possible in an Imaginators session as your pre-school children are taken on a journey around our galleries, objects and paintings by one of our Learning Officers, having loads of fun as they go.

The children learn to build relationships and try their hand at a variety of creative activities using their developing skills - and their imaginations!

Younger siblings/older babies are welcome too.

Just £2 per child per session plus £1...

The Imaginators

Create, enjoy, explore - fun sessions for the under 5s

Play, explore, paint, stick, sing or make - anything's possible in an Imaginators session as your pre-school children are taken on a journey around our galleries, objects and paintings by one of our Learning Officers, having loads of fun as they go.

The children learn to build relationships and try their hand at a variety of creative activities using their developing skills - and their imaginations!

Younger siblings/older babies are welcome too.

Just £2 per child per session plus £1...

The Imaginators

Create, enjoy, explore - fun sessions for the under 5s

Play, explore, paint, stick, sing or make - anything's possible in an Imaginators session as your pre-school children are taken on a journey around our galleries, objects and paintings by one of our Learning Officers, having loads of fun as they go.

The children learn to build relationships and try their hand at a variety of creative activities using their developing skills - and their imaginations!

Younger siblings/older babies are welcome too.

Just £2 per child per session plus £1...

The Imaginators

Create, enjoy, explore - fun sessions for the under 5s

Play, explore, paint, stick, sing or make - anything's possible in an Imaginators session as your pre-school children are taken on a journey around our galleries, objects and paintings by one of our Learning Officers, having loads of fun as they go.

The children learn to build relationships and try their hand at a variety of creative activities using their developing skills - and their imaginations!

Younger siblings/older babies are welcome too.

Just £2 per child per session plus £1...

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