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Current exhibitions

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    Unpicking Couture

    July 21, 2023 – November 2, 2025
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    What's New? Collecting for Manchester

    Ongoing
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    Room to Breathe

    Ongoing

  • Out of the Crate

    Ongoing
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    Rethinking the Grand Tour

    Ongoing

Tours

  • The female cheetah, seen in profile to the right, wears a collar, a red hood and a red belt harness tied around her abdomen; kneeling to the far side of the cheetah is one of the male figures, wearing a white robe with a single button at the neck and a turban of spotted white fabric, restraining the animal by its belt; he turns his head to the right, looking towards where the second male figure is gesturing. This figure, also with a white robe, worn over a pair of red trousers, and red shoes with curled-up toes, has a plain white turban. He looks in the direction of the cheetah and gestures with both hands towards a stag standing behind him on the right. The stag turns its head towards the cheetah; both animals stare at one another.
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    🎧 Highlights Tour

    Ongoing

    45 minutes | 10 stops

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    British Sign Language Tour

    Ongoing

    25 minutes | 4 stops

  • An intimate, impressionist painting of a slim young anonymous female sitter with long dark hair, seated in an armchair with a small table to her left, reading a letter.

    Women of MAG tour

    Ongoing
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    Wild Wander - Family Art Trail

    Ongoing
  • Bronze cobra reared up in attack position, with vermillion and pewter scales. Art deco in style.
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    Year of the Snake 🐍

    Ongoing

    10 minutes | 3 stops

What's on

  • oil painting of groups of women doing various job for the men in the centre.
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    Florence Claxton's 'Women's Work, a Medley'

    Ongoing
  • Three women looking at a landscape painting.

    Explore, Learn, Discover

  • Model wearing a black garment leaning against a mannequin with a backdrop of coat hangers
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    Tech Couture: The Future

    April 24, 2024 – May 28, 2025

Facilities

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    Derek Jarman Pocket Park

Past Exhibitions

  • Artwork of a Black man with a bald head, wearing a grey suit with pink lapels. His waistcoat is colourful stripes and he is holding flowers.
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    Dandy Style

    October 7, 2022 – May 1, 2023
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    Dandy Style Fashion Production

    February 14 – May 1, 2023

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    Prints on Demand

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