Exhibitions

Galleries
Gallery of Design opens
November 2015
2
Exhibitions
Gallery of
Design Exhibitions
Manchester International Festival 2015
Ed Atkins Performance Capture
419 July
Rendered
A programme of moving images
selected by Ed Atkins
25 July 31 August
Matthew Darbyshire
An Exhibition for Modern Living
25 September 10 January
The Imitation Game
From 12 February

Clore Art Studio

Gallery 12
Galleries
Galleries 13
18th century
Early 19th century
1
Modern and Gallery 4
Contemporary Gallery 11 Natural Forces: Romanticism and Nature
Galleries
Changing displays Gallery 5
Pre-Raphaelites

Gallery 10 Gallery 6
Impressionists and A Highland Romance: Victorian Views of
Post-Impressionists Scottishness
Galleries 7/8
Victorian
Gallery 9
Absent Presence
Gallery 10
Gallery 3 Gallery 4 Gallery 5 Gallery 6 Gallery 7 Channel Crossings: English and French
Early 19th Changing Pre-Raphaelites Changing Victorian Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
century displays displays
Gallery 11
Artists in the Frame: Self-portraits by Van Dyck
and Others
Gallery 2 Gallery 1 Gallery 9 Gallery 8
18th 18th Changing Victorian Gallery 12
century century displays Home, Land and Sea: Art in the Netherlands
16001800
Modern and Contemporary Galleries
House Proud

Family Activities
Clore Art Studio

G
GEORGE STREET

Exhibitions
NICHOLAS STREET

Exhibitions Gallery
Black on Black
Studio2 From 13 June
Manchester Gallery
Cotton Couture
Until 31 August
Studio1
Entrance
The Lost Gardens of Manchester
Until November

Family activities
Explorer Tool Belts
Story Bags
ENTRANCE

Exhibitions
Gallery Caf Lift
Shop Caf
Manchester
Gallery
Cloakroom Shop
Caf
Education
Studios Toilets

Baby
Information change

Lecture Family
Room activity
MOSLEY STREET
ENTRANCE

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Welcome
Here, you can discover Manchesters rich
and varied art collections. Were famous for
our Pre-Raphaelite paintings, but we have
paintings, craft and design spanning six
centuries, decorative objects from four
millennia, and a lot of contemporary
artworks too.
Galleries
We love showing historic art
alongside contemporary works,
as youll discover in Artists in the
Frame: Self-portraits by Van Dyck
and Others.
Support us
Admission is free but a 3
donation (or more) would really
help. Please remember to Gift Aid
any contribution. You can also
support the gallery on a regular
basis by becoming a Friend.
Ask at the information desk.
Above: Self-portrait by Sir Anthony van Dyck,
c.1640 National Portrait Gallery, London
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Galleries
Absent Presence is a display of
paintings from our collection that
contemplate time and loss.
House Proud celebrates
20th-century art and design
in the home.
Access for everyone
We do everything we can to
make our gallery accessible to
all visitors.
Ask at the gallery information
desk for more details.
Above: Callum Innes, Exposed Painting Green
Lake, 2012. Photography Heidi Kosaniuk
Innes. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street
Gallery
floor plan
Art Gallery
Manchester
Were always changing whats on display,
and our exhibition programme features
the best international contemporary art.
Explore the gallery using the plan overleaf
or just have a wander. Youre sure to find
something that fires your imagination.
Until the end of October we even have
our own garden The Lost Gardens of
Manchester, in partnership with the
National Trust.
Exhibitions Families
For Manchester International Turn your visit into an arty
Festival 2015, Ed Atkins lifts the adventure! Borrow an explorer
veil on the production of digital tool belt or story bag.
art with Performance Capture.
In the Clore Art Studio, you can
Matthew Darbyshire: An Exhibition explore the process of making
for Modern Living explores design, through hands-on creative
collecting and what the objects activities.
we live with say about us.
Printed using 100% ECF pulp paper and vegetable inks
Open Manchester Art Gallery
Daily, 10am5pm Mosley Street
(Thursdays, 10am9pm) Manchester M2 3JL
Tel: 0161 235 8888
Closed
Textphone: 0161 235 8893
2426, 31 December
www.manchesterartgallery.org
and 1 January
Above: Matthew Darbyshire, CAPTCHA No. Owned and managed by
24 - David, 2015. Courtesy of Herald Street Manchester City Council
Gallery, London, and Lisa Cooley Gallery,
New York
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