Exhibitions

Poppies by Patricia Havis

A busy programme of temporary exhibitions takes place throughout the year in our three temporary exhibition galleries.


A half yearly programme leaflet is available from the museum, your local Derbyshire library or tourist information centre, or you can download it from this page.

Most artists hold previews for their exhibitions and you are invited to join them. You can also join the mailing list for invitations. 
Artists usually sell their work - providing you with an excellent opportunity to buy contemporary pictures, sculpture and craft. 
Please go to our current exhibition programme to view information about current and forthcoming exhibitions.

Please Note: Gallery 2 will be closing from Saturday 16 March 2013 at 4pm until Tuesday 26 March 2013 at 12. This is to install new display boards.

How to apply for an exhibition

We welcome applications from all artists, whether emerging or well-established, to show their work in our galleries. Please see our leaflet attached to this page for more information on how we select exhibitions and how to apply.

We plan our exhibition programme a year in advance so our main exhibition spaces are currently booked up until the end of 2013. However, there are occasional possibilities for hosting smaller and/or community exhibitions outside the main programme.

Contact Jo Lydiate, Museum Assistant, with any enquiries related to exhibitions by email at jo.lydiate@derbyshire.gov.uk or by telephone on 01629 533547.

Join our mailing list

You can join our mailing list to be kept informed about the many events, exhibitions and workshops which we host throughout the year.

Related documents

The following documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download software to view PDF documents for free from the Adobe website (opens in a new window)

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