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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 – Alison Wilding: sculptor's Drawings  until 12 January 2025

Gallery 3 – Event and gallery space, with a view of Whitworth Park. Partial closure during late October/early November for artwork installation – Jakkai Siributr: There’s no Place, opens 15 November 2025 – 16 March 2025

Gallery 4The 'Death' of the Life Room – until 12 January 2025

Gallery 5Shirley Craven – until 16 March 2025

Special ExhibitionsBarbara Walker: Being Here – until 26 January 2025

Project Space – currently CLOSED for exhibition installation – Jakkai Siributr: There’s no Place, opens 15 November 2025 – 16 March 2025

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 the Project Space, on the Upper Promenade. DOWN: Lower Ground Floor

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

Mezzanine Floor 

Mezzanine – Everyday Art School – until January 2026  More about Everyday Art School

Lift – Located on the Mezzanine floor. 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

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

Living Room, 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