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Jan — Mar
2022
What’s On
Free Entry | Please Donate
sheffieldmuseums.org.uk
Welcome to Sheffield Museums
Bringing the best in art
and design to Sheffield
Discover great art in
the heart of the city
Celebrating 300 years of
Sheffield making history
Stories of Sheffield from
prehistory to present day
Step into the past and explore the
industry that shaped Sheffield
See Sheffield’s knife grinding
history brought to life
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It’s really important to us that you’re
able to visit your museums with
confidence, so we’re continuing to
take steps to keep everyone safe.
Find out more at
sheffieldmuseums.org.uk
Photo © Andy Brown
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New exhibition
Not Without My Ghosts:
The Artist As Medium
31 Mar – 26 Jun 2022
Millennium Gallery
Free entry, please donate
From William Blake to Susan Hiller, artists have
long found fascination with the idea of forces
beyond those accepted by the modern world.
Ann Churchill, Blue Oval Drawing, 1975. Courtesy the artist.
Image by David Bebber
Not Without My Ghosts explores how art has
continued to be inspired by the practices of
mediums and spiritualists and the deep cultural
history they represent. Featuring work from the
19th century to the present day, the exhibition
looks at how artists’ engagement with séances,
channelling, automatic writing and other
paranormal investigations has changed over
time.
The exhibition brings together paintings, works
on paper, installation, video and animation by 25
international artists. For some, their work acts
as evidence of another realm of existence, while
others harness the power of the unseen and
uncanny to explore the ambiguities of the world
around them.
Not Without My Ghosts includes work by Noviadi
Angkasapura, William Blake, Cameron, Ann
Churchill, Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Despont,
Casimiro Domingo, Madame Fondrillon, Chiara
Fumai, Vidya Gastaldon, Madge Gill, Susan Hiller,
Barbara Honywood, Georgiana Houghton,
Augustin Lesage, Pia Lindman, Ann Lislegaard,
Grace Pailthorpe, František Jaroslav Pecka,
Olivia Plender, Sigmar Polke, Lea Porsager, Barbara Honywood, No Title Album Page XIV, c. 1860s
Austin Osman Spare, Emma Talbot and © Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole
Spacetime Collective.
Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium is a Hayward
Gallery Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London,
developed in partnership with Drawing Room, London.
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Last chance to see
Beyond Bloomsbury:
Life, Love and Legacy
Until 13 Feb 2022
Millennium Gallery
Free entry, please donate
The extraordinary writers, artists and thinkers
of the Bloomsbury Group had a profound effect
on British art and literature. Prolific, passionate
and hugely gifted, their story is just as compelling
as the remarkable work they created.
This major new exhibition chronicles the lives,
loves and work of the group during the first half
of the 20th century. As well as celebrating the
group’s key figures, including writer and feminist
pioneer, Virginia Woolf and her sister, painter
Vanessa Bell, the displays shine a spotlight on
their often overlooked peers and reflect on the Vanessa Bell, Leonard Sidney Woolf, 1940 © National Portrait Gallery, London
group’s place in queer art history.
In partnership with York Museums Trust and the National
Portrait Gallery
New exhibition
Where We Live
15 Jan – 5 Jun 2022
Millennium Gallery
Free entry, please donate
Where We Live brings together paintings by
Trevor Burgess, Jonathan Hooper, Mandy Payne,
Narbi Price and Judith Tucker to examine the
overlooked and under-regarded aspects of the
landscape we inhabit today.
Presenting five locations across England,
including Sheffield’s own Park Hill, the works on
display interrogate our social landscape at a time
of profound political and social change. Mandy Payne, Every day is like Sunday © the artist
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New exhibition
Places in Time:
The Art of Kenneth Steel
Until 2 May 2022
Weston Park Museum
Free entry, please donate
Born in Sheffield, Kenneth Steel was a skilled
artist and commercial illustrator who created
visuals for classic mid-century travel posters and
architectural landmarks, yet his name remains
little known. This exhibition will shed new light
on Steel’s considerable achievements, bringing
together the most comprehensive collection of
his art ever to go on display.
Places in Time will celebrate the breadth of
Steel’s artistic career. Alongside examples
of his early printmaking, visitors will see
architectural watercolours and perspective
drawings visualising buildings from the Jodrell
Kenneth Steel, Harrogate, 1953. Image © Rob Whitrow
Bank Observatory to Sheffield’s own Moore
Street electricity substation. The exhibition
will showcase the familiar railway and carriage
posters Steel created, as well as a selection of oil
paintings he made of locations from the Balearic
Islands to New York City.
New display
Plastic Planet
Until autumn 2022
Weston Park Museum
Free entry, please donate
Once hailed as a miracle material, plastic has
become a major problem across the world, killing
wildlife and invading our own food and water
supplies.
Photo © Nariman Mesharrafa on Unsplash
This new small display in Weston Park Museum’s
What on Earth! gallery highlights some of the
considerable and catastrophic impacts waste
plastic is having on the environment.
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Photo © Andy Brown
Coming soon
More new displays coming
soon at the Graves Gallery
We’re looking forward to our next phase of the Now, the next part of the redisplay is on its way,
redisplay programme at the Graves Gallery, with the introduction of two new displays looking
coming this spring! at themes of abstraction and identity, plus a
brand new changing exhibition.
Last September, we unveiled the first of the
new displays and improvements to the gallery as Galleries 2, 3, 4 and 5 will be closed from Sunday
part of a five-year series of changes generously 16 January while the new exhibition and displays
supported by the Ampersand Foundation. The are installed and we’ll look forward to welcoming
first phase of the project enabled us to transform you to see the new-look galleries from late March
four of the galleries in the Graves – walls were 2022.
re-clad, spaces redecorated and over a third of
the artworks on display were changed over. The
new additions included the debut of a new display
curated by artist Keith Piper (more on that on
pg 13) and a new landscape-themed gallery.
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Sheffield Museums is the independent charity that operates six of the city’s leading museums and heritage sites. Your generosity helps keep your museums open and free. Donate today at sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/donate Photo © Andy Brown 8
Experience
the mighty
River Don
Engine this
Half Term
Kelham Island Museum’s enormous River Don
Engine was a driving force in Sheffield’s early
20th century steel industry. Hear it roar and
feel it rumble twice daily at 12 noon and 2pm.
Photo © Andy Brown
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Talks, Tours & Events
At Sheffield Museums you can enjoy a wide range of events
and activities, from talks and tours to hands-on workshops.
You can find our full programme of events and book online
at sheffieldmuseums.org.uk
January Online Talk: Bloomsbury Lunchtime Talk:
Group Design Virginia Woolf and
Tue 18 Jan, 6 – 7pm the Arts
Online Tue 25 Jan, 1 – 1.45pm
Free, booking recommended Millennium Gallery
Free, booking recommended
Curator Tour: Places
in Time — The Art of Lunchtime Talk: Park Hill
Kenneth Steel at 60 — Residents’ Stories
Wed 19 Jan, 11 – 11.45am & 1 – 1.45pm Wed 26 Jan, 1 – 1.45pm
Weston Park Museum Weston Park Museum
Free, booking recommended Free, booking recommended
Saturday Art Workshop: Sheffield Heritage Fair
Reflecting the Sat 29 Jan, 10am – 4pm
Bloomsbury Group & Sun 30 Jan, 11am – 4pm
Millennium Gallery
Sat 22 Jan, 10.30am – 4pm
Free, just turn up
Millennium Gallery
£65, book in advance
February Evening Talk: Behind the Lunchtime Tour:
Façade — The Sitwells Lowlights at Kelham
Revealed Island Museum
Wed 2 Feb, 6 – 7pm Thu 3 Feb, 1 – 1.45pm
Millennium Gallery Kelham Island Museum
Free, booking recommended Free, booking recommended
10February Lunchtime Talk: Kenneth Talk: A Tale of Two
Steel — The Artist’s Diamonds — Plane Making
Journey at William Marples &
Wed 9 Feb, 1 – 2pm Sons
Weston Park Museum Wed 23 Feb, 2 – 3pm
Free, booking recommended Kelham Island Museum
Free, booking information at
Lunchtime Talk: Besides www.hawleytoolcollection.com
Bloomsbury — Queer Arts Saturday Art Workshop:
of the 20th Century Landscape and Memory
Thu 10 Feb, 1 – 1.45pm
Sat 26 Feb, 10.30am – 4pm
Millennium Gallery
Graves Gallery
Free, booking recommended
£60, book in advance
Lunchtime Talk:
Recording our
Portable Past
Wed 16 Feb, 1 – 1.45pm
Kelham Island Museum
Free, booking recommended
March Lunchtime Talk: See Talk: The Story of
Britain by Train — Sheffield Cutlery
Kenneth Steel’s Railways Company W. S.
Wed 2 Mar, 1 – 1.45pm Butcher Ltd.
Weston Park Museum Wed 16 Mar, 2 – 3pm
Free, booking recommended Kelham Island Museum
Free, booking information at
Lunchtime Talk: Precious www.hawleytoolcollection.com
Little Gems
Saturday Art Workshop:
Tue 8 Mar, 1 – 1.45pm
Millennium Gallery Paradise Found
Free, booking recommended Sat 19 Mar, 10.30am – 4pm
Millennium Gallery
£60, book in advance
11March Lunchtime Talk: YP Lates: A Celebration
A Transformation in Thu 31 Mar, 6.30 – 9.30pm
Everyday Life? Telling Kelham Island Museum
Stories about the 1950s, Free, booking recommended
(exclusively for 14 – 25 year olds)
‘60s and ‘70s
Wed 30 Mar, 1 – 1.45pm
Weston Park Museum
Free, booking recommended
Regular Life Drawing Sharing the View:
Events Fridays 10.30am – 12.30pm Philosophy in the Gallery
Millennium Gallery Fri 14 Jan, Fri 11 Feb & Fri 11 Mar
£9, booking recommended 12noon
Graves Gallery
Free, booking recommended
Photo © Andy Brown
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Narration
at the Graves
Gallery
One of the newest additions to the Graves
Gallery is a display curated by artist Keith Piper,
co-founder of the seminal Blk Art Group.
Led by Piper’s own large-scale work, Seven
Rages of Man (1984 – 2018), Outside Narration
brings compelling new perspectives to
traditional accepted histories.
Keith Piper’s Seven Rages of Man (detail) at the Graves Gallery. Photo © Andy Brown
13Events and Activities for Families
At Sheffield Museums you’ll discover lots for families to enjoy
together. You can find our full programme of family events online
at sheffieldmuseums.org.uk
Fridays Under 5s Half Term Activity:
– Get Stuck In! All Hail The Whale!
Fridays during school term-time Wed 16 Feb, 12noon – 3pm
10am – 12.30pm Weston Park Museum
Weston Park Museum Free, donations welcome – just drop in
Free, donations welcome – just drop in
In the run up to World Whale Day on 20
Whether it’s colouring, splashing, enjoying February, what better way to celebrate these
glorious gloop, discovering beastly bugs or amazing animals than getting to know our very
maybe even playing instruments in the gallery, own pilot whale skeleton at Weston Park! You
join us and get stuck in to some hands-on can find out about their mysterious lives, their
creative fun for you and your little ones. incredible bodies and their splendid skeletons
– and make your own pilot whale poster to take
Our under 5s sessions provide our youngest home too.
visitors the chance to explore their senses, get
creative and sometimes make a little bit of a
mess (don’t worry, you can leave the cleaning up
to us).
Half Term Activity: Bodacious
Butterflies & Marvellous Moths
Children must be accompanied by an adult at all
times. Fri 18 Feb, 12noon – 3pm
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Free, donations welcome – just drop in
Half Term Activity: In just a few weeks, hibernating butterflies will
Sheffield Invents be waking up! At this workshop, you can look at
some of the colourful taxidermied butterflies
Mon 14 Feb, 12noon – 3pm and moths from the city’s historic natural science
Kelham Island Museum collection, and can make your own dolly-peg
Free, donations welcome – just drop in version to take home.
Join us and the Maker{Future} team to get
hands-on with some super Sheffield inventions
and machines. Using the resources in the pop-
up makerspace you’ll be able to create, tinker,
test and modify to invent your own machine. In
partnership with The University of Sheffield.
Photo © Andy Brown
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in time at
Abbeydale
Industrial
Hamlet
Just a five minute walk from Millhouses Park,
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet will immerse you
in Sheffield’s steelmaking past.
Photo © Andy Brown
15Find some of the best shopping in Sheffield at the Millennium Gallery If it’s a great gift you’re after, then the Millennium Gallery shop has just what you need, whatever your budget. You’ll find everything from beautiful David Mellor You’ll also discover books, stationery and homeware to popular prints by city artists and greetings cards inspired by the Ruskin and jewellery hand-crafted by local makers. You can Metalwork Collection displays, alongside browse plenty of products celebrating just how ranges complementing the changing exhibition super Sheffield is – you can even pick up a bottle programme. of Hendos! Photo © Sheffield Museums 16
Support Sheffield
Museums with a gift
in your Will
Making a Will is the best way that you can protect the people and
places you love, and ensure they are taken care of for the future.
Your support will make a real difference. Sheffield Museums’ Wills partner, Wake Smith
A gift in your Will could help Sheffield Museums: Solicitors are generously offering a free Will
consultation and discounted Wills for all our
• Give communities free and unlimited access supporters. To book your appointment please
to their museums, galleries and heritage sites contact them on 0114 266 6660 or email
suzanne.porter@wake-smith.com
• Care for the city’s collections of art,
archaeology, social and industrial history, and To discuss the difference that a gift to Sheffield
natural science Museums in your Will can make, please contact
the Fundraising Team at
• Support future generations through
fundraising@sheffieldmuseums.org.uk
engaging educational activities and learning
or call 0114 278 2610
programmes designed to inspire all ages
Find out more at
• Create memorable experiences for the
sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/yourwill
thousands of visitors to Sheffield Museums
every year
Photo © Andy Brown
17Your big day, in an
unforgettable venue
Sheffield’s museums provide the perfect place to say ‘I do’.
A wedding, ceremony or celebration in one of our At the Millennium Gallery, you’ll tie the knot
unique licenced venues is one you’re guaranteed in one of the city’s landmark buildings. The
to cherish. contemporary, flexible white space offers a blank
canvas that we’ll work with you to create the
A Kelham Island Museum wedding is steeped in wedding of your dreams in.
Sheffield history. Located in the city’s coolest
quarter, the authentic industrial spaces are the For more information and to book a show
perfect setting for your special day – and make around visit sheffieldmuseums.org.uk or get
for amazing photos too! in touch with our Hospitality Team at
hospitality@sheffieldmuseums.org.uk
Telling the story of Sheffield over thousands
of years, Weston Park Museum is packed with
charm and character. Ceremonies take place
against the beautiful backdrop of the Picturing
Sheffield gallery, where you’ll be surrounded by
artists’ views of the city.
Kelham Island Museum wedding. Photo © Peakography James & Kyle at the Millennium Gallery. Photo © Captured Life Photography
18Shepherd
Wheel
Workshop is a
hidden gem
See the city’s knife grinding history brought
to life at the Workshop in the heart of Whitely
Woods, just a five minute walk from Endcliffe
Park.
Photo © Andy Brown
19Visit Us Free Entry | Please Donate
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