Turner Contemporary
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Margate
Kent
CT9 1HG
England
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01843 233000
Turner Contemporary is the South East's major new gallery. We celebrate JMW Turner's association with Margate, by showcasing historical and contemporary art through a rolling programme of exhibitions. We have regular events, many of which are free for you to take part in. Admission to the gallery is free.
Venue Type:
Gallery
Additional info
Turner Contemporary is fully accessible for visitors, with a ramp to the main entrance and café, as well as an internal lift to all upper floor galleries.
Seven disabled parking spaces are available on the piazza at the front of the gallery, as signposted.
Turner Contemporary Café is open Tuesday to Sunday, serving delicious hot and cold food and drinks, locally sourced where possible.
Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing
Enter a world of wonder, fascination and inquiry. Experience the spectacular and the bizarre, the startling and mysterious, contemporary art alongside historical artefacts, as the gallery becomes a cabinet of curiosities.
See the absurdly over stuffed Horniman Museum walrus, which has travelled to the seaside having left its current home for the first time since the 1890s, sit proudly in our North gallery. Works by contemporary artists including Katie Paterson, Pablo Bronstein, Tacita Dean and Gerard Byrne expose past and present fascinations such as astronomy, animals, maps and humankind’s obsession with collecting, blurring the boundaries of art, science and fantasy.
Historical artefacts abound with intricate pen and ink studies by Leonardo da Vinci; Albrecht Dürer’s celebrated Rhinoceros woodcut (1515); beautiful bird studies by the gallery’s namesake JMW Turner; late 19th century models of aquatic creatures by German glassmakers Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka; the mineral collection of Roger Caillois from the Natural History Museum in Paris, the diarist and botanist John Evelyn’s cabinet, ivory anatomical models from the 17th and 18th centuries, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia with its startingly detailed illustration of a flea, and a penguin collected from one of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expeditions from our neighbour the Powell-Cotton Museum in Birchington-on-Sea.
A Hayward Touring exhibition, in collaboration with Turner Contemporary and curated by Brian Dillon. Also in association with New York art and culture magazine Cabinet.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
FREE
Website
http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/curiosity-art-and-the-pleasures-of-knowing
Turner and Constable: sketching from nature
The exhibition offers a unique exploration of how the art of oil sketching in the landscape, rather than in the studio, became fashionable in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Free.
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Love Architecture Week
Love Architecture Week
Fri 21 - Sun 30 June
Celebrate the Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) festival.
David Chipperfield Architect Matt Ball gives an architectural talk about our Curiosity exhibition (Tue 25 Jun 6pm, £6 / £5), there’s an evening of architectural inspired performance and film featuring artist group Obsolete Studios and Bromstone Primary school with Adesola Dancing Strong Dance Company at Late Night Love Architecture (Fri 28 Jun, 6pm, free).
Then show off your sandcastle making skills at the RIBA Sandcastle Challenge on Margate beach (Sat 29 Jun, 10am–3.30pm, free. (Email emma.hardy@riba.org to register) and see an architectural model exhibition by Betteridge & Milsom (Thu 27 - Sun 30 Jun, free).
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Talk £6 / £5 concessions
Register for RIBA Sandcastle Challenge at emma.hardy@riba.org
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