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Education

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Early Years

Primary KS1

Primary KS2

Secondary

Post 16 & HE/FE

Inspired by... Competition

Workshops & Tours

Thinking Visually

Getting to Know The Gallery

Picturing Landscapes

Portraits & Identity

Human / Nature

Creative Consultants

Teachers Events

Thinking Teachers - Professional Development

Pre-Raphaelite Experiment

Available throughout the year

Choose from a range of activity workshops, all of which:

• Last 1 hour 45 minutes.
• Include practical activities led by artists/educators.
• Are cross-curricular in approach and wherever possible, cross-cultural.
• Are based on the permanent collections and often on current special exhibitions.

Thinking Visually

Open your eyes, follow the artist’s gaze and engage your senses to explore ways of seeing, feeling and understanding. Working individually and collaboratively, students use objects to create dialogue, discover meanings and form their own interpretations of images and artefacts in the gallery.


Find out more about Thinking Visually.

Capturing Nature

Students discover how artists have been inspired by nature, research still life, costume, paintings and ceramics and record their responses. In our studio they explore mixed media and experiment with wax trapping techniques.

Find out more about Capturing Nature.

Getting to Know the Gallery

Join our interactive tour, where students will discover the history of our building and a selection of works of art that complement the founding and development of Manchester’s art gallery. A mixture of discussion and exploring drawing techniques will provide a creative basis for future gallery visits.


Find out more about Getting to Know the Gallery.

Picturing Landscapes

Explore how artists have developed approaches in producing landscapes from the 16th to 21st century. Students collect observational drawings of Manchester’s ever-changing cityscape and translate them using print techniques in our studios.

Find out more about Picturing Landscapes.

Portraits and Identity

Investigate relationships between people and objects through a range of artworks in our permanent collection and special exhibitions. Students use critical studies to inform analysis and photography and alternative drawing techniques to document observations.


Find out more about Portraits and Identity.

To make a booking or for further information please contact us.


Tel: 0161 235 8842

Fax: 0161 235 8899