Map
Find your way around the gallery with our map and guide to what’s on each floor.
View and download a PDF map of our galleries or explore our guide to each floor below
Floor Guide
Ground Floor
Oxford Road Entrance – Reception, the Whitworth Shop, toilets (male, female and accessible)
Gallery 1 – Exchanges – Autumn 2025
Gallery 2 – Turner in Time – opens 22 November 2025
Gallery 3 – Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp – 3 October 2025 to 1 March 2026
Gallery 4 – Rethinking Abstract Art – Opens 22 November 2025
Gallery 5 – Performing Trees
Special Exhibitions – Santiago Yahuarcani: The Beginning of Knowledge – until 4 January 2026
Project Space – Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp – 3 October 2025 to 1 March 2026
Living Room – A drop-in shared space, to eat, study and meet
Upper Promenade – The Whitworth Café, Meeting Room 1, Quiet Space
Lifts
- Located in Gallery 1 to the left. DOWN: Lower Ground Floor, Toilets and Lockers. UP: First Floor, Grand Hall
- Located in Gallery 4 near stairs. UP: Mezzanine Floor
- Located near the Project Space, on the Upper Promenade. DOWN: Lower Ground Floor
Mezzanine
Everyday Art School – ongoing
Lift
- Located on the Mezzanine floor. DOWN: Gallery 4
First Floor
Grand Hall – events space
Lift
- Located opposite the Grand Hall. DOWN: Ground Floor and Lower Ground Floor
Lower Ground Floor
Parkside Entrance – Reception, Lower Promenade
Toilets – Gender neutral and accessible
Collections Care Centre – Where we manage, care for and store our collections
Clore Garden Studio – Creative workshop and events space
Study Centre – A bookable space for individual research and group learning
Family Room – Including baby changing and an accessible toilet
Lockers
Coin-operated Buggy Locks
Toilets – Gender neutral and accessible
- Lifts
- Located on the Lower Promenade, near the stone staircase. UP: Ground Floor, Upper Promenade Located close to the Family Room, next to the lockers. UP: Ground Floor, First Floor
Outdoor Spaces
Art Garden – Designed by renowned garden designer Sarah Price and home to outdoor events
Alex Bernstein Garden – A Silent Space to switch off from the outside world
Places to eat your own food
To help protect artworks and care for our collection, we do not permit visitors to consume food and drinks in the gallery's exhibition areas and public spaces.
However, packed lunches, food, and drinks can be consumed in these three areas:
- Living Room – please note that the Living Room is currently closed for essential repair work
- Art Garden
- Whitworth Park
Please ask a member of the Visitor Team for directions if needed.