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Education

Plan Your Visit

Early Years

Primary KS1

Primary KS2

Secondary

Workshops & Tours

Thinking Visually

Human / Nature

Getting To Know The Gallery

Picturing Landscapes

Portraits & Identity

Artists in Schools

Creative Consultants

Self Guided Resources

Post 16 & HE/FE

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.

Human / Nature

Using Pre-Raphaelite paintings and contemporary art practice, students uncover symbols and hidden meanings relating to nature and people. They explore how these can evoke emotions in the viewer. This collaborative process includes discussion, observational drawing and experimental image projections.

Find out more about Human / Nature

Getting to Know the Gallery

This introduction to Manchester Art Gallery takes you on two journeys. You’ll explore the architecture of the gallery’s buildings and discover how they have grown and developed. You’ll also tour highlights of the gallery’s collections, learning about historic and contemporary art through discussion and drawing and writing exercises.

Find out more about Getting to Know the Gallery.

Picturing Landscapes

Explore how artists have developed approaches to producing landscapes paintings from the 16th to 21st century. Students make 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 collections and special exhibitions. Students use critical studies to inform analysis and document their observations using photography and drawing techniques.

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