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Experts from auction house Lyon & Turnbull visit Aberdeen Art Gallery this week with an open valuation event on Saturday 23 March. People are encouraged to look out their hidden treasures or dust-off their family heirlooms and take advantage of this unique opportunity to have their objects…
Aberdeen Art Gallery launches its 2024 exhibition programme this week with the only Scottish showing of ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois, a collection of works by the world renowned French-American artist.
Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois settled in New York in 1938, where she…
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums announce a new concert series especially for music lovers. Classics @ the Cowdray features an irresistible blend of classical and popular music performed by the Aberdeen-based Nova Quartet at Cowdray Hall.
The new…
Her Majesty The Queen today officially opened a Safe Space in Aberdeen Art Gallery where victims of domestic abuse can discretely ask for help from the venue’s staff.
Queen Camilla also unveiled a poignant sculpture which is in memory of those lost to and survivors of domestic abuse as…
We’re pleased to announce that four local artists will benefit from funding for commissions awarded by Aberdeen Art Gallery and the Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.
In September, Aberdeen Art Gallery invited local artists and makers to submit proposals for a series…
Almost 300,000 visits were made to Aberdeen Archives, Art Gallery and Museums buildings in a year including for popular events such as an exhibition for the UK’s best-loved illustrator Quentin Blake, the 10th-century Book of Deer illuminated manuscript returning to the…
Aberdeen Art Gallery is delighted to launch a major exhibition of new work by three of Scotland’s foremost artists – Lennox Dunbar, Ian Howard and Arthur Watson. The Aberdeen-born contemporaries attended Aberdeen Grammar School and as students were greatly influenced by weekly visits to the Art…
This summer Aberdeen Art Gallery is hosting a double-bill of exhibitions all in one amazing space, Quentin Blake: Illustrating Verse and Quentin Blake: Book Covers, featuring the work of the UK’s best-loved illustrator, Quentin Blake, who celebrated his 90th birthday last year…
Aberdeen Maritime Museum has launched a new, digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Bloomberg Connects app, which is already a success at Aberdeen Art Gallery, is available and free to download from Google Play or the App…
A commemorative plaque to Dr Laura Sandeman (1862-1929) has been unveiled at 22 Waverley Place in Aberdeen, the location of Dr Sandeman’s former home and GP practice.
The plaque is the first ‘People’ plaque in Aberdeen to be blue, which brings…
Pupils from Northfield Academy have created a new exhibition called What’s Your Treasure? at the Treasure Hub museum collection centre in Northfield. It will be seen for the first time by visitors to the Treasure Hub Open Day on Saturday 17 June.
…Aberdeen Art Gallery’s latest special exhibition goes in search of the spaces where creativity takes place – the artist studio, where ideas are born. The exhibition, which opens to the public on Saturday 1 April, brings together images by 25 photographers from the celebrated…