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Welcome

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    CEO's Welcome

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    Plan Your Visit

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    Access

Exhibitions and Displays

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    Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes

    May 24 – September 7, 2025
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    Jyll Bradley: Running and Returning

    April 5 – November 2, 2025
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    Jyll Bradley: Life and Influences

    April 5 – November 2, 2025
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    Surreal Estates

    May 24 – September 7, 2025
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    Artists on the Big Screen: The Witching Hour - Tyler Mellins

    May 24 – September 7, 2025

Ground Floor

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    Port of Plymouth Gallery

    Ongoing
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    100 Journeys Gallery

    Ongoing
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    Mammoth Gallery

    Ongoing

First Floor

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    Media Lab Gallery

    Ongoing
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    Active Archives Gallery

    Ongoing
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    The Cottonian Research Room

    Ongoing
  • Image of a surreal artwork which has stretched trees and is green, purple, blue and yellow in colour.

    Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes

    May 24 – September 7, 2025
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    Jyll Bradley: Life and Influences

    April 5 – November 2, 2025
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    Surreal Estates

    May 24 – September 7, 2025
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    Artists on the Big Screen: The Witching Hour - Tyler Mellins

    May 24 – September 7, 2025

St Luke's

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    Jyll Bradley: Running and Returning

    April 5 – November 2, 2025
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    Contemporary Art at The Box

More to Explore

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    Ship's figureheads in South Hall

    Ongoing

    15 stops

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    Using our Collections for Research

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    Public Art in Plymouth

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    Smeaton's Tower

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    Elizabethan House

Shop

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    The Box Shop

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    Prints on Art UK

Support Us

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    Please donate today

Past exhibitions

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    John Lyons: Carnivalesque

    February 8 – May 5, 2025
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    Windrush in the Far South West

    January 18 – May 5, 2025
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    Planet Ocean

    March 16, 2024 – April 27, 2025
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    Osman Yousefzada – When will we be good enough?

    November 2, 2024 – March 9, 2025
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    Land Sea Sky: Ingrid Pollard, JMW Turner & Vija Celmins

    October 19, 2024 – January 12, 2025
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    Devonport 200

    October 19, 2024 – January 12, 2025
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    Paul Rooney - Broken Token

    October 19, 2024 – January 12, 2025
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    The Time is Always Now

    June 29 – September 29, 2024

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