Focusing on the urban clearances in Manchester and Salford from the 1960s onwards, this exhibition by British photographer Shirley Baker includes striking scenes of poverty and resilience – alongside never before exhibited images.
Free entry
Cumbria is studded with fantastic museums - read our picks of the best here.
Next door to Dove Cottage, Wordsworth’s first family home, is the Wordsworth Museum, which houses an unsurpassed collection of the Wordsworths’ letters, journals and poems.
The Ruskin Museum tells the story of Coniston in Cumbria – a place of copper mines and slate quarries, Swallows & Amazons country where Beatrix Potter owned farms and Stone Age fell walkers once dwelled.
Displaying over 300 artists in a range of media, Sheffield’s Cupola Contemporary Art – established in 1991 – is a highly respected gallery for the sale and exhibition of fine art and craft.
Ranging from impressive, nationally-significant collections in Grade listed buildings, to historic houses that now have a particular focus on local, contemporary artists, here's our guide to Cumbria's collection of art galleries.
Extraordinary objects from the private collection of art collector George Loudon go on display to the public for the first time in Object Lessons at Manchester Museum – a showcase of 19th century life science teaching objects that blurs the boundary between art and science.
Free entry
Hopeless repetition is a core theme in artist Andrew McDonald’s animated works – but who is responsible for the darkly comic loops the figures on screen perform? Find out in this significant solo show at Castlefield Gallery.
Free entry
Featuring objects including a fragment from the lining of Napoleon’s coffin, The John Rylands Library’s latest exhibition sets out to prove that a library’s stories are not just contained within books.
Free entry
Bringing together exceptional examples of painting and sculpture from the Arts Council Collection, and augmented with major loans from important UK collections, Kaleidoscope examines the art of the 1960s through a fresh and surprising lens.
Free entry
An unconventional view of Hong Kong is revealed in this exhibition of photography by Michael Wolf.
Free entry
