Gallery Oldham News

Preserving memories: Capturing Oldham’s Coliseum

Published on: 17 July 2024

Our Capturing the Coliseum project has helped us to collect and preserve every aspect of the Oldham Coliseum’s history.

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Two actors in outrageous costumes with huge roses on the front on the set of Cinderella from 2018.

175 exhibition: Victoria Market Hall

Published on: 15 July 2024

To celebrate 175 years of Oldham borough we’ll be sharing blogs linked to the exhibition, this week we take a look at the Victoria Market Hall.

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Visitor looking at Victorian firefighter helmet.

The Oldham Open Leaflet 2024

Published on: 08 May 2024

Fancy entering The Oldham Open exhibition this year? Here’s all the information you need to know to have a chance of exhibiting your artwork.

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Photograph of an empty ornate gold frame

Is this James Johnson?

Published on: 01 February 2024

In our collections we hold the archives of the Oldham Photographic Society. The society is over 150 years old and still flourishing today. Amongst the many fascinating images captured by […]

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Black and white photograph of a seated black man

Oldham’s incredible mark on Japanese industry

Published on: 30 January 2024

2015 marked the 150th anniversary of the arrival of nineteen Satsuma students from Kagoshima. On 17th April 1865 this group of students set sail from the tiny village of Hashima in the […]

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Japanese tea cup set