What’s on

Sat 11–Sun 12 Oct 2025

Margate Bookie is back! Discover all Margate Bookie Schools Day, Big Weekend and Children's Bookie events taking place at Turner here. There'll be readings, in conversations and workshops for schools, families and adults alike.

Fridays until 24 October 2025, 11.30am–12pm

Get closer to the exhibition with our free Highlight Tours.

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 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.

Apr 2025–Apr 2026

Celebrating 250 years since the birth of JMW Turner. #Turner250

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.

22 Feb–26 Oct 2025

Make your mark in our Clore Learning Studio with the Chalk Stream. Our Clore Learning Studio has been transformed into a Chalk Stream. Designed for play, alongside the children’s art library of over 400 books and regular workshop programme.

Fri 7 Feb-Sun 1 Jun 2025

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

Sat 14 Jun–Sun 26 Oct 2025

Join us this summer to discover The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, an exhibition by Anna Boghiguian, which will explore global maritime histories and today’s environmental and geopolitical crises.

Sat 14 Jun–Sun 26 Oct 2025

Explore paintings, collages, photography, video and installation pieces created by local young artists inspired by the force of the sea.

Fri 3 Oct 2025–Sun 15 Mar 2026

Experience two monumental sculptures by acclaimed American artist Simone Leigh.

Sat 11 Oct 2025, 10.30–11.30am

Join crime fiction writers GD Wright, LV Matthews and Naomi Williams discuss their approaches to the chilling genre, in conversation with Academy FM presenter Paul Rutters.

Sat 11 Oct 2025, 10.30–11.30am

Join authors Tamara Macfarlane (The Book of Mysteries, Magic and the Unexplained), and Hayley of My Real Fairy Kits to explore mysteries, magic, and the art of potion creation.

Sat 11–Sun 12 Oct 2025

Margate Bookie is back! Discover all Margate Bookie Schools Day, Big Weekend and Children's Bookie events taking place at Turner here. There'll be readings, in conversations and workshops for schools, families and adults alike.

Saturdays until 25 October 2025, 11.30am–12pm

Discover the stories behind the artworks during our fun, hands-on Family Highlight Tours.

Sat 11 Oct 2025, 12–1pm

Join award-winning author and screenwriter David Whitehouse and novelist and screenwriter Lisa Owens as they discuss his latest book, Saltwater Mansions, a real life mystery centering on the disappearance of a Margate woman named Caroline Lane.

Sat 11 Oct 2025, 12–1pm

Join author and illustrator Rachel Tilda Wolf for an interactive story time and craft workshop where children will create their own characters to take home.

Sat 11 Oct 2025, 1–4pm

Enjoy your favourite nursery rhymes and songs with storytellers bringing them to life.