Holiday at home things to doExplore with Go Baby DigitalSyd Shelton: Rock Against Racism exhibitionSearch our collectionsPlans for OMA - Our new Arts & Heritage Centre
We’ve got loads of things to do
Get their imaginations going every Tuesday.
See our online exhibition – Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism
Search our collections
Plans for OMA – Our new Arts & Heritage Centre

Opening times

We are temporarily closed as a precautionary measure to help contain the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).

 

Visitor information

Admission is free! We have a shop, cafe, large lifts, accessible toilets, and baby changing facilities.

Map and visitor information

Latest News

  • Holiday At Home: Postcards from Oldham

    To kick off our Holiday At Home activities we’re creating Postcards from Oldham with freelance artist Fay Buchanan. Long before texting and WhatsApp, postcards were a fun and cheap way […]

  • Holiday At Home: Anyone got a stamp?

    At Gallery Oldham we’re celebrating Holidaying At Home, take a look at some of our comic postcards with Social History Curator Bill Longshaw.

  • Early Years Adventure – Faces

    This week we’re taking our inspiration from ‘Portrait of Two Sisters’ by artist Aneela Majid, this is an oil painting in the galleries art collection. Majid, a former student of […]

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Exhibitions

We have four large exhibition spaces plus a community gallery. We take an innovative and unique approach to exhibition programming, bringing together what were once separate museum and gallery services.

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What's on at the Gallery

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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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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Lockdown museum

Oldham's Lockdown Museum

Oldham's Lockdown Museum is a new digital project to collect a snapshot of what life is like in our local area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Share your stories, pictures and films.

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Children and Families

Kids & Families

We have bags of free fun activities for all the family from our GO Baby and GO Explorers sessions, Super Saturday workshops and free activities in the school holidays and more....

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About OMA

OMA

Learn about OMA our exciting new Arts & Heritage centre which will open at the end of 2021. OMA brings together the work of Gallery Oldham, Oldham Theatre Workshop, Oldham Arts Development and Oldham Local Studies and Archives into one exciting shared venue.

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Take Part

Arts, Heritage, Libraries and Music Service have got together to create Take Part, an online space that makes it easy to see what creative activities you can be involved in.

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Oldham Local Studies

Explore your family history; find out how Oldham has changed with the development of new communities; uncover the story of Oldham from village to cotton capital of the world.

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