Exhibitions
Our exhibition programme is built around a dynamic series of rotating exhibitions, each a captivating journey through art, history and science.
Our special exhibitions are a vibrant home for new ideas, offering fresh perspectives on our collections, revealing untold narratives and surprising connections. With a new story to tell every few months, there’s always a reason to return to the VG&M.
Lightbulb Moments
Ongoing
This exhibition explores the origins of some of the city’s most remarkable discoveries, innovations and insights. It invites visitors to reflect on what makes ideas possible in the first place.
Seeing Green
Ongoing
This display of paintings invites viewers to consider the colour green. Associations differ around the globe and through history, but in modern Britain green tends to be linked to nature and environmental issues.
Play of Light: A Display of Darkness and Illumination
Ongoing
This small display shows how using the play of light against darkness, to add drama and mood to art, was applied by British artists of the late Georgian and Victorian eras.
Making a Mark: Artworks from the Studio Prints Collection
13 June 2026 to 30 January 2027
Step inside a new free exhibition presenting works created at one of Britain's pioneering printmaking studios.
St Brigid's Arms
3 October 2026 to 17 April 2027
Step into St Brigid’s Arms, an immersive exhibition exploring the experiences of women of Irish heritage in the North of England.