What’s on

Fri 7 Feb-Sun 1 Jun 2025

Come and meet this giant commission by Lily Mixe, alongside Young Creatives X RNLI.

22 Nov 2025–Nov 2026

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

Fri 3 Oct 2025–Sun 15 Mar 2026

Experience two monumental sculptures by acclaimed American artist Simone Leigh.

8 Apr 2025–Apr 2026

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, from Fri 12 Dec 2025 until 1 May 2026, 3.30–4.15pm

Experience 'Bridget Riley: Learning to See' through an interactive tour designed to encourage deep looking and drawing.

Fri 12 Dec 2025, 7pm–9.30pm

Join us for an after-hours evening of moonlit live Jazz

Since 2010

Tracey Emin's love letter to her hometown lights up Droit House on the Harbour arm. I Never Stopped Loving You uses Emin's own handwriting moulded in pink neon to reflect her feelings across the main sands to Margate.

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.

Fri 7 Feb-Sun 1 Jun 2025

Come and meet this giant commission by Lily Mixe, alongside Young Creatives X RNLI.

22 Nov 2025–Nov 2026

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

Fri 3 Oct 2025–Sun 15 Mar 2026

Experience two monumental sculptures by acclaimed American artist Simone Leigh.

8 Apr 2025–Apr 2026

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.

Saturdays, from Sat 6 Dec until 2 May 2026, 11.30am–12pm

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

Saturdays & Sundays until 19 April, 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.