01 Mar 2023
THU 9 MAR, 2023
Moon Late
Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Stellar Space Disco, Cosmic Cocktail Bar & Moon Exhibition
Join us for an evening at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery. Enjoy lunar-themed cocktails, a stellar space disco and a unique, atmospheric experience of the Moon exhibition. The licensed, Cosmic Cocktail Bar will be open from 6.30pm.
Tickets £15 (includes...
19 Jan 2023
Shropshire sculptor Halima Cassell receives MBE award for ‘Services to Art and Cultural Heritage’ in England.
Cassell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for ‘Services to Art and Cultural Heritage’ in England, but due to Covid restrictions the award ceremony was delayed until 2022. Cassell finally collected her award from Buckingham Palace in...
08 Jun 2022
An historic estate on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, which is steeped in tapestry history, will be the backdrop for a stunning exhibition of contemporary tapestries this summer.
Interconnections 4, featuring unique tapestry by some of the leading weavers from Ireland and Scotland, will visit Weston Park from June 4 until August 31 and will fill the free-entry Granary Art Gallery with...
17 Nov 2018
Participate Artspace Winter Art Fair is back this year! At Participate Contemporary Artspace. CIC. Riverside Shopping Centre. Raven Meadows. Shrewsbury. 11am-5pm Tuesday – Saturday until 23rd December. With new art work from 17 artists you will not want to miss it. There are some incredible things to be seen, eye-catching sculptures made from recycled materials, beautiful textile pieces,...
04 Nov 2018
Final preparations are being made for a huge Remembrance Day commemoration in Wellington - and the public are being urged to attend.
A week long exhibition, starting on Monday (Nov 5), has been set up at the Gratitude Cafe in Duke Street featuring memorabilia from the war and digital displays about the people behind the 184 war dead named on the town Lychgate.
Two large boards of information and...
18 Oct 2018
The biggest Remembrance Day commemoration for several years is due to take place in Wellington as a group of volunteers celebrate two years of research ending in a published book.
A project to identify and find out about all 184 war dead named on the town Lychgate has brought families together, linked generations and uncovered more about the town’s history.
The dedicated team of volunteers set...
06 May 2017
Welcome to Shrewsbury Open Studios.
An informal organisation of professional artists, designers and makers.
Enjoy seeing original works of art? Curious about how and where artists and makers work, the materials they use, and how they get their ideas? Shrewsbury is full of creative people, and the Open Studios events give you the chance to meet some of them, and see their work close-up.
Opening...
03 Oct 2016
College Students Stage Exhibition at Ironbridge Fine Arts Gallery
Art students from Shrewsbury College will again see their work on display at a top Shropshire art gallery. Their forthcoming exhibition - at Ironbridge Fine Arts Gallery - is a collection of work based upon the theme ‘Aide-mémoire’, requiring the artists to draw on collective or personal memories to create artworks that serve as an...
26 Jul 2016
A major new exhibition telling the untold story of one of the great female artists of the early twentieth century comes to Shrewsbury this autumn.
Margaret Agnes Rope, born in 1882, produced stained-glass that can be found in churches and cathedrals on three continents, and which is now also collected by American museums – but she is now largely forgotten here in the UK, and even in her home town...
26 Jul 2016
Families are being invited to spend a day at the seaside this summer – without leaving Shropshire.
A coconut shy and hoopla stall are just two of the attractions on offer at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery as part of the ‘Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside’ exhibition, which runs until Monday 29 August. Open 10am to 5pm, except Sundays 11am to 3pm.
The exhibition aims to capture all the...