Victoria Art Gallery Bath

The Victoria Art Gallery is the public art museum in Bath. It has special exhibitions and collections of paintings, sculptures and decorative arts. We have facilitated school sessions on many art themes including landscapes, portraits, printings and focusing on our special temporary exhibitions. Later this year we will be opening a new education space.

Art and Design Bath
Design and Technology Bath
Victoria

Art is for everyone, because it helps us see the world in new ways. We provide a range of creative, interactive, fun and accessible activities for all ages.

Our learning programme is closely linked to the national curriculum and is designed to encourage an interest in arts and crafts to last a lifetime. Explore our special resources and art club tutorials on our learning pages:

https://www.victoriagal.org.uk/learning-life

We have an LOtC quality badge.

Don’t just study art – make it! Explore our art and history sessions for schools. We work with you to decide on how to best help with your topic work to inspire a love of creativity and making things.

We cater for normal class sizes.

We provide all materials and resources for self-guided and facilitated visits.

Pre visit: we have teacher’s packs available to kick-start student learning linked to themes within the collection; portraits, landscapes and narrative art.

During their visit school groups can either book a self-guided or a facilitated visit, all exhibition trails and engagement materials are available for use.

Post-visit: follow up with viewing in-depth videos and research about the artworks.

Photography is allowed in the upper gallery and some lower gallery exhibitions.

We can provide risk assessments when a session is booked.

You can contact our Learning and Participation Manager by telephone: 01225 477757 or email: heritage_learning@bathnes.gov.uk or Lindsey_braidley@bathnes.gov.uk

For up-to-date opening times, prices and discounts, please visit our website:

https://www.victoriagal.org.uk/making-booking

There are no clothing requirements – but if you are taking part in an art activity, you may like to bring art aprons.

There is a First Aider on site at all times.

We do not have facilities to eat a packed lunch.

There is a Gallery shop on the ground floor.

Level access is via our ramped entrance on Bridge Street. A lift is available with space for one wheelchair at a time.

Pressing a button on the outside of the building in Bridge Street automatically opens the doors for wheelchair users. There is an accessible toilet on the first floor.

A lift is available with space for one wheelchair at a time. It has a capacity of 8 people, a weight limit of 630Kg, dimensions measuring 1.38m long x 1.11m wide, and a doorway measuring 0.8m wide.

For our current opening dates and times, please see the visit page of our website. We will update this page when we are able to open.

https://www.victoriagal.org.uk/opening-times

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https://www.victoriagal.org.uk/

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