What's on

Apr 2025–2027

Join us to see JMW Turner’s oil sketch 'Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate (Study for ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’)' at Turner, part of a year-long festival celebrating 250 years since the artist's birth.

Every Friday, 3.30–4.15pm

Experience 'Hulda Guzmán: Please awake – asked Nature kindly' through an interactive tour designed to encourage deep looking and drawing.

Fri 7 Aug 2026, 8–9.30pm

As the sun sets over that sea on the eve of Margate Pride, members of the local queer community gather to share their connections to our coastline.

Since April 2024

'Slices of Peace' is a public artwork by artist and designer Yinka Ilori MBE installed in Orchard Park – a new public park in Kings Hill, near West Malling in Kent.

Since 2017

See one of a series of one hundred, solid cast-iron figures by Antony Gormley exploring the experience of being human.

Sat 23 May–Sun 13 Sep 2026

Turner Contemporary presents the first European institutional exhibition of the Dominican artist, Hulda Guzmán.

Wed 1 Apr–Sun 1 Nov 2026

Celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary, David Hockney’s Sunley Window focuses on the nature of light and the many ways its effects can be represented pictorially.

22 Nov 2025–2027

We’ve transformed our Clore Learning Studio into a cabinet of curiosities full of inspiration and surprises to make drawing fun.

Apr 2025–2027

Join us to see JMW Turner’s oil sketch 'Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate (Study for ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’)' at Turner, part of a year-long festival celebrating 250 years since the artist's birth.

Every Saturday, 11.30am–12pm

Discover the stories behind the works of art during our fun, hands-on Family Highlight Tours.

Saturdays & Sundays, 2–4pm

Come and create at our free, drop-in family workshops for ages 12 and under.

Since April 2024

'Slices of Peace' is a public artwork by artist and designer Yinka Ilori MBE installed in Orchard Park – a new public park in Kings Hill, near West Malling in Kent.

Since 2017

See one of a series of one hundred, solid cast-iron figures by Antony Gormley exploring the experience of being human.

Sat 23 May–Sun 13 Sep 2026

Turner Contemporary presents the first European institutional exhibition of the Dominican artist, Hulda Guzmán.

Wed 1 Apr–Sun 1 Nov 2026

Celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary, David Hockney’s Sunley Window focuses on the nature of light and the many ways its effects can be represented pictorially.

22 Nov 2025–2027

We’ve transformed our Clore Learning Studio into a cabinet of curiosities full of inspiration and surprises to make drawing fun.

Apr 2025–2027

Join us to see JMW Turner’s oil sketch 'Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate (Study for ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’)' at Turner, part of a year-long festival celebrating 250 years since the artist's birth.