Exhibitions

This breakthrough exhibition focusses on the work of five veteran artists who have been ahead of their time in responding to the threat of climate change. Until now, these artists, although well…

A Window into Scottish Art will brings together more than 30 significant works that explore the history of Scottish Art. The exhibition is not a chronological survey, but a pick of landmark periods…

The prestigious painting competition returns for 2025. The Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award celebrates the very best in contemporary portraiture and is one of the most important platforms for portrait painters…

The medieval period was one of great creativity and development. Many of the basic technologies which underpinned the renaissance and later the industrial revolution were first developed, while at the same time…

Expressions of Interest Invited: Touring Exhibition Opportunity from mid 2026Beyond the Bonnets: Working Women in Jane Austen’s Novels The exhibition has been developed to mark 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. We invite…

Canadiana! Masterworks from the McMichael offers a journey through the diverse and evolving landscape of Canadian art. Including historical masterpieces and cutting-edge contemporary works, Canadiana! invites audiences to discover the full breadth of Canadian artistic…

A Paradigm-Shifting Exhibition Showcasing Four Decades of Inuit Artistry, Resilience & Community, led by Greenlandic Inuit curator Emily Laurent Henderson. The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is proud to steward the Kinngait Drawings Archive,…

Microworld is an immersive art space filled with digital creatures which respond to the audience in a variety of ways. The creatures have life cycles and strategies for survival. You can play…

In a moment shaped by ecological uncertainty, digital saturation, and the soft collapse of boundaries between the natural and the artificial, Life Motif is a call to return: a return to the…

Well-being is a general term that has increasingly entered our everyday conversations. Resilience, Remedies and Reason exhibition explores a deeper, more personal view of what well-being and what the term “strength” means…

The exhibition explores the connection between Picasso and Dalí and the world of dance through their interpretations of the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, or Le Tricorne, which premiered in 1919 at the…

Visions of Desire: Salvador Dalí and the Renaissance Literature From Dante’s Divine Comedy to Ronsard’s Amours de Cassandre This exhibition invites visitors on a journey through time and imagination, where Renaissance poetry finds a…

In the exhibition KIDS, children are everywhere: sweet children, playful children, lonely children, innocent children, and unpredictable children. For centuries, children have been depicted in art – from precious paintings to photographs…

Jason is a disabled artist, who initially trained as an oil painter, but learned to embrace the pixel when he became disabled. He is the recipient of the prestigious Adam Reynolds Award…

‘I photograph comedians!’ exclaims British photographer Andy Hollingworth. His incredible photographs of some of Britain’s most iconic comedians form the foundation of this exhibition.    Andy has a unique connection with his subjects and…

Across three in-depth sections that reflect the three locations in which we swim — the pool, the lido and nature — the exhibition will dive into design’s role in shaping our relationship…

Experiment with lenses, lightning and luminosity and many other classic demonstrations on colour and optics across 16 hands-on exhibits. Investigate how images merge into moving pictures in the zoetrope and praxinoscope, and…

We’re surrounded by sound and our ears are bombarded by noise but do you know how sound is made and how it travels? It’s all to do with vibrations of course. Experiment…

Find out what the ancients did for us. Shoot down a castle wall with a Roman catapult and see how the Egyptians locked their doors. Build an aqueduct to guide water to…

Sparks will fly in this exhibition of weird and wonderful experiments for all ages. Make an explosion using just water, experiment with batteries and generators, magnets and plasma globes, and see if…