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Millennium Gallery

The Millennium Gallery brings the best in art and design to Sheffield

The gallery’s changing exhibition programme showcases the best in national and international art and design alongside the region’s remarkable creative talents. You’ll also find collection displays celebrating Sheffield’s metalworking prowess and the remarkable art and artefacts brought to the city by the artist and writer, John Ruskin.

 

Sheffield’s Metalwork Collection is one of the finest in the world. You’ll see over 800 examples of the cutlery, flatware and tableware that have made the city famous, as well as beautiful objects collected from every continent.

The gallery is also home to the Guild of St George’s unique Ruskin Collection. Spanning art, illustrated manuscripts and minerals, the collection was established in the 1800s to inspire the people of Sheffield. Today, it’s showcased through regularly changing displays celebrating the contemporary relevance of Ruskin’s visionary ideas.

During your visit, you can enjoy great coffee and some truly fantastic grilled cheese sandwiches in our café, Ambulo. 

And we'll let you into a little secret – the Millennium Gallery has some of the best shopping in Sheffield. If it's a gift you're after, the Gallery shop has just what you need, from must-have homeware and hand-crafted jewellery to books, cards and stationery. 

 

Free Entry | Please Donate

Opening Times

Tue–Sat 10am–5pm

Sun 11am–4pm

The Millennium Gallery down escalator is currently out of use - step-free access to the lower floor is available via the lift or the side entrance on Cadman Lane

Millennium Gallery

Arundel Gate

Sheffield

S1 2PP

 

 

Ways of Water

15 Feb – 12 May 2024  |  Millennium Gallery

Explore our local water infrastructures, from historic wells to expansive reservoirs, through film, photography, sculpture and more.

Free Exhibition  |  Please Donate

 

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An aerial photograph of a circular concrete platform in a body of water. Extending from the platform in the top left of the image is a bridge or jetty. On the opposite side of platform to the bridge is a solar panel and in the centre is some venting and a metal panel. Around the edge of the platform is a metal railing.
A pen and ink drawing of two human-like figures sitting inside a house exterior;

Phlegm: Pandemic Diary

13 Jan – 7 Jul 2024  |  Millennium Gallery

Explore over 60 drawings by one of Sheffield's best-loved artists.

Free Exhibition  |  Please Donate

 

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Ruskin Collection: Hand, Head and Heart

9 Dec 2023 – 1 Dec 2024  |  Millennium Gallery

John Ruskin believed in the positive power of making by hand. This new collection redisplay looks at how the act of handmaking improves people’s lives today.

Free Display  |  Please Donate

 

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A colourful embroidered quilt featuring text and images. At the centre are two portraits of Terry Higgins which are framed by a heart motif. The quilt is hung on a concrete and glass wall in a contemporary building.

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  • Old Sheffield Plate Soup Tureen, 1790-1810. Photo © Sheffield Museums.
  • Two adults are looking at a glass cabinet in the gallery, one of the adults is pointing. There is a dark blue gallery sign behind them. © Andy Brown
  • The Yellow Hammer, Or Yellow Bunting Lithograph, 1832-1837, by John & Elizabeth Gould © the Guild of St George / Sheffield Museums.
  • © Andy Brown
  • J.W.Bunney, Façade Of San Marco, Venice, 1877-82 © the Guild Of St George / Sheffield Museums
  • © Andy Brown
  • © Andy Brown

See more next door at the Graves Gallery

Find more exhibitions and display just over the road at the Graves Gallery, home to the city's visual art collection. Open Tue - Sat, free entry.

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