The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum re-opens on Saturday 23 July 2022! 

The opening weekend invites the community and visitors to the art gallery and museum for two days of free taster sessions, talks and workshops, children’s activities, live music and performance, café offers, Body Beautiful exhibition and the complementary Break The Cycle exhibition, which includes a clothes swap event. The first 100 visitors on both days will enjoy a free filter coffee, or cup of tea, in The Wilson Kitchen.

 Saturday 23 July 

10am to 6pm: The Wilson Kitchen café open serving hot and cold breakfasts, light lunches, coffee and cakes, children’s options.

10am to 6pm: Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk exhibition, produced by National Museums Scotland, free entry.

10am to 6pm: Enjoy music throughout the day on the ground floor including The Honeymoon Swing Band 

10am to 10:45am: Bang the drum in the WOW gallery, fun for all the family

10:30am to 12:30pm: Made in a day: Indigo dying drop in session in The Foyle

10:30am to 11:30am: Boss Morris performance throughout the building 

12pm to 12:30pm: Arts and crafts: Curator led tour in the arts and crafts gallery

1pm to 2pm: Tots and tales children’s storytelling, WOW gallery

1pm to 1:30pm: Body beautiful exhibition opening talk with Georgina Ripley, senior curator of modern and contemporary fashion and textiles at National Museums Scotland, Summerfield Exhibition Gallery

2pm to 6pm: Handling the collection: Exploring Edward Wilson and the Antarctic, Foyle space

2pm to 2:20pm: Break the Cycle exhibition, opening talk in the Sir Charles Irving Community Art Gallery

2:20pm to 4pm: Break the Cycle workshop, drop in session in the Sir Charles Irving Community Art Gallery

Sunday 24 July 

10am to 6pm: The Wilson Kitchen café open serving hot and cold breakfasts, light lunches, coffee and cakes, children’s options.

10am to 6pm: Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk exhibition, produced by National Museums Scotland, free entry.

10am to 6pm: Enjoy music throughout the day on the ground floor

1am to 12pm: Made in day: Clay portraits in The Foyle

11am to 3pm: Clothes swap with Break the Cycle in the Sir Charles Irving Community Art Gallery

11am to 11:30pm: Puppet show in the WOW Gallery for all the family

11am to 11:30pm: Meet the makers with Alex Merry and Mark Amis in The Makers Space

12pm to 12:30pm: Arts and crafts, curator led tour in the Arts and Crafts Gallery

2pm to 2:30pm: Puppet show in the WOW Gallery for all the family

3pm to 3:30pm: Explore the story of Cheltenham with a tour of Cheltenham Untold, Friends Gallery

3pm to 6pm: Beautiful beasts, explore the taxidermy from our museum handling collection in The Foyle