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Gallery Map

Visitor orientation map with numbered spaces and key guide to what's on

Map

Finding your way around our galleries.

Ground Floor

Entrance (Oxford Road) – Reception

Entrance (Oxford Road) – The Whitworth Shop

Upper Promenade – The Whitworth Café

Gallery 1 – Exchanges – until 24 November 2024

Gallery 2 – Traces of Displacement – until 12 May 2024 

Gallery 3 – no exhibition on display, due to: exhibition changeover, building maintenance and conservation work.

Gallery 4Traces of Displacement – until 12 May 2024

Gallery 5 – Closed for installation – opening with Shirley Craven on 6 April 2024

Gallery 6 – Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery – until 7 April 2024

Gallery 7 – Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery – until 7 April 2024

Gallery 8 – Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery – until 7 April 2024

Gallery 9 – Closed for installation – opening with Ayo Akingbade on 3 May 2024

Events Room – Living Room – A drop-in shared space, to eat, study and meet.

Meeting Room – Meeting Room 1

Quiet Space – Please ask a member of the Visitor Team for details 

Toilets – Multi-use toilets, please see the map for locations

Lift – Located in Gallery 1 to the left. DOWN: Lower Ground Floor, Toilets and Lockers, UP: First Floor, Grand Hall

Lift – Located in Gallery 4 near stairs. UP: Mezzanine Floor

Lift – Located near Gallery 9, on the Upper Promenade. DOWN: Lower Ground Floor

Lockers – Please ask a member of the Visitor Team for details

Mezzanine Floor 

Gallery 10 – Everyday Art School – until January 2026  More about Everyday Art School

Gallery 11 – Everyday Art School – until January 2026  More about Everyday Art School

Gallery 12 – Everyday Art School – until January 2026  More about Everyday Art School

Lift – Located in Gallery 10. DOWN: Gallery 4

First Floor

Grand Hall – Events Space

Lift – Located near Grand Hall. DOWN: Ground Floor and Lower Ground Floor

Lower Ground Floor

Entrance (Denmark Road/Art Garden) – Reception

Collections Care Centre – Project and Exhibition Space

Leaning Studio – Clore Garden Studio: Creative Workshop and Events Space

Art Garden – Outdoor Space

Alex Bernstein Garden – Outdoor Space

Toilets – Multi-use toilets, please see the map for locations

Lift – Located on the Lower Ground Floor Promenade, near the stone staircase. UP: Ground Floor, Upper Promenade

Lockers – Please ask a member of the Visitor Team for details

Lower Promenade, Art Garden, and Whitworth Park:
Packed lunches, food, and drink can be consumed in these areas

 

Please visit our Current Exhibitions pages for full details of each exhibition.

View a pdf map of our galleries