Oldham Stories: Encounters with our Collections

Gallery 2 – Carboniferous Monsters

Gallery 3 – Points of View by Saddleworth Group of Artists

Gallery 4 – Your Home, Your Voice, Your Place by Manchester Histories

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Latest News

Carboniferous Monsters Takeover Day 2023

For this year’s Takeover Day, St Patrick’s RC Primary and Nursery School’s Year 1 class took over our Carboniferous Monsters: 150 Million Years Before the Dinosaur exhibition for a play […]
Changes to Local Studies & Archives service before move to a new home

There will be temporary changes to our Local Studies and Archives Service this winter, as the service prepares to move to its new home in the redeveloped Spindles centre. The […]
Circe: Gallery Oldham’s Most Queried Painting

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses is perhaps Gallery Oldham’s most popular artwork and it is the one we receive the most queries about. To help answer some of those burning questions here is a bit of information about John William Waterhouse’s famous painting.

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What's On

There is always plenty happening at Gallery Oldham! Check the calendar to see forthcoming talks and tours, art and craft courses, family activities, cinema showings and other events.

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Exhibitions

We have four large exhibition spaces. We take an innovative and unique approach to exhibition programming, bringing together what were once separate museum and gallery services.See our current exhibitions →.

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Our Collections

Our collections include over 12,000 social history items, 3,000 works of art, 80,000 natural history specimens, 15,000 photographs and a large number of books, pamphlets and documents.

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