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Gallery Oldham

We’ve got a fantastic range of exhibitions over the next few months.

You can set your imagination free and join the giant jellyfish in Ocean Drifters or explore the history of Oldham Borough in our One Seven Five exhibition.

Gallery Oldham’s permanent displays of collections can be found in our foyer and throughout the building.

Don’t miss our programme of associated gallery talks too.

Visitor Information

Admission to Oldham Gallery is free.Find our how to get here, what's you'll find inside, and our accessible facilities.

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Gallery Events

We have a huge range of activities for families, individuals, artists, young people and everyone else who visits Gallery Oldham.

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Exhibitions

Gallery Oldham has three large exhibition spaces, with an innovative and unique approach to exhibition programming.

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Fossilised dinosaur with long spikes on its back

Gallery 4

Over the past fifteen years we have presented almost 100 different exhibitions in the Gallery 4 space.

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Permanent Displays

You can see items from our collections and a range of exhibitions throughout Gallery Oldham. Follow our new Gallery Trail which highlights objects of interest around the building.

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Our Collections

Gallery Oldham has been collecting artworks and objects since 1883 and is still collecting today, with over 100,000 items.

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Oil painting of brown leafless trees with yellow brown hills in the background

Making Memories

We are a dementia friendly gallery and museum and run successful reminiscence projects and activities.

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Purple and pink text reads Making memorial, creative reminiscence, Arts, heritage and culture for those caring for older people

Gallery News

Keep up to date with the latest exhibition information find out more about stories from our collections by following this blog.

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An oil painting of Glodwick, Oldham conveys a small town in the background with smoke coming from the chimneys and rolling fields in the foreground with women working in the fields. There are dark clouds above them