Calling all photographers & videographers! Volunteer with us to capture brilliant moments at VG&M events.
🎥 Photograph and film a range of events
⏰ Flexible role
📷 All equipment provided!
Want to get involved?
➡️ Find more info on our Volunteer Makers webpage: https://orlo.uk/vZowk
Create & Relate: World Book Day ✨📚 Join us to design a unique beaded bookmark using old book pages, colourful tape & beads — the perfect way to celebrate your favourite reads.
🗓 Wed 11 March
⏰ 2–4pm
Student-focused, all welcome 💛
#studentwellbeing #meetandmake #worldbookday
Our @victoriagallery.bsky.social truly is a work of art! 😍🖼️
We love this beautiful portrait of our iconic red brick by @artbyarjo. Prints from his Liverpool collection will soon be available at the Victoria Gallery & Museum shop 💙
Celebrate International Women’s Day with the story of Dame Ethel Smyth – fearless musical pioneer, passionate campaigner for women’s rights, and trailblazer in LGBTQ+ history.
➡️ Dame Ethel Smyth: A Musical Pioneer
📅 10 March, 1pm-2pm
🎟️ Book a FREE spot: https://orlo.uk/uFaqa
March is in full swing at VG&M 🌸✨
Join us for:
🎬 Free family films
✏️ Portrait sketching, our relaxed music concert
🎨 Family zine-making workshop inspired by our Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe exhibition
🔗 https://orlo.uk/sJB9K
#liverpool #freeevents #victoriagallery
Have you ever wondered who’s behind our clocktower logo? Meet Sophie Green - the brilliant illustrator and proud trans woman who designed it 💛 Back in 2021, Sophie was our guest blogger during LGBTQ+ History Month, sharing insights into her Sheroes exhibition.
➡️ https://orlo.uk/F8N4u
Our Relaxed Music Concert takes place this Friday 27 February, 3.30-4.30pm. 🎶 Ease into your weekend with live music performed by talented students from the University’s Department of Music. Tickets include a drink and a cake.
Tickets via Eventbrite: https://orlo.uk/G80hD
It’s Sustainability Week! ♻️ Don’t miss our Cultural Heritage Team at the Sustainability Fair, Thurs 26 Feb, 11am-3pm at the Guild (student event only).
➡️ https://orlo.uk/KCxf3
🖼️ Image: Having a Look, Jim Russell (1933–2002)
#sustainabilityweek #livuni #VGM
Relaxed Music Concert at the Waterhouse Café: join us on Friday 27 February, 3.30–4.30pm at the beautiful Waterhouse Café, Victoria Gallery & Museum for an afternoon of live music led by our talented Department of Music students.
🎟️ Tickets via Eventbrite: https://orlo.uk/0Szdn
Celebrating Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe - in your words! Here's what our visitors have said - if you haven’t visited yet, this is your sign!
📆 Tue-Sat
🕐 10am-5pm (last entry 4.30pm)
🎟️ FREE!
More info: https://orlo.uk/vWofi
#freeexhibition #liverpool #blackbritishmusic
Say hello to Sarah, our new Curator of Art & Exhibitions! We asked Sarah 8 quick questions, from her favourite artist to what she loves most about being a curator.
Have you got a question to ask Sarah? Let us know in the comments! 💬
#victoriagallery #curator #liverpoolart #livuni
Liverpool is a city of big ideas 💡Lightbulb moments explores over 150 inventions made in 19th-century Liverpool, including:
➡️ Noelle the gorilla’s skeleton
➡️ An 1847 museum board game
➡️ A 4,000-year-old Cypriot pot showing the maker’s fingerprints
Tue–Sat, 10am–5pm.
When a village hall becomes a sanctuary. Sound baths use vibration, gongs, and collective rest to create contemporary sacred spaces.
📷: Sound Bath, Pulford Village Hall, Cheshire.
Discover more in Sacred Spaces and photography by Dr Terence Heng.
Tue–Sat, 10am–5pm.
Did you know The Real Thing are Britain’s most successful Black group? 🎶 From L8, Toxteth came 'Children of the Ghetto' (1977), later covered by Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind & Fire) and Mary J. Blige.
Discover more in Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe.
Tues-Sat, 10am-5pm
VG&M
Cafe open slightly later time of 10am today. In the meantime, we're manifesting some blue skies as we head into February!
It's warm inside though, so if you're coming to visit, the gallery & museum opening hours are:
Tuesday - Saturday
10am - 5pm
Last entry 4.30pm
https://orlo.uk/KRosm
What’s on at VG&M this February ✨
From half-term workshops, to films and Lunar New Year activities, there’s lots happening!
👉 See the full listings: https://orlo.uk/qvSiB
📅 Open Tuesday-Saturday
🕑 10am-5pm (last entry 4.30pm)
Looking for a midweek culture break? Join our FREE guided tour every Tuesday at 2pm 🏛️Led by a friendly expert, discover the building’s history, hidden stories and enjoy a short walk through the galleries.
🎫 https://orlo.uk/DST9a
#victoriagallery #freethingstodoinliverpool #livuni
What’s your favourite VG&M space?
☕ Waterhouse Café
🌿 Outside grounds
🏛️ Tate Hall Museum
🗿 Sculpture Gallery
Plan your visit & explore our spaces! https://orlo.uk/C6vO4
#victoriagallery #liverpool #art #redbrick
Have you seen our Play of Light exhibition yet? Here is ‘Snowdon by Moonlight’ by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797). Notice how the moonlight beams brightly off the water in contrast to the darkness of the surrounding trees. Really beautiful!
More info: https://orlo.uk/gOntW
Join our mailing list! 📧 Keep up to date with what's on at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, including exhibitions, events, talks, and more!
➡️ Sign up here! https://orlo.uk/8lLa7
Image: Oliver Goldsmith by John Henry Foley (1818–1874).
#VGM #Liverpool #ExploreLiverpool #MuseumsLiverpool
Every idea starts somewhere 💡 Swipe to see some of the things you've added to our chalkboard that have sparked your imagination!
Open Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm
Exhibitions info: https://orlo.uk/01wCb
#lightbulbmoments #tatehallmuseum #museumsliverpool #redbrickreborn #freeexhibition
In #Lightbulbmoments is a sculpture by New York artist Linda Stein titled Knight Adagio 573, from her 2002 'Knights of Protection' series.
The figure is humanoid but ambiguous, inviting the viewer to consider their definitions of what is masculine or feminine.
👇
https://orlo.uk/Lv62q
Need a quiet hour to brighten your January? Visit our exhibitions!
🖼️ Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe
💡 Lightbulb moments
🕊️ Sacred Spaces
🌳 Seeing Green
✨ Play of Light
If you haven’t visited us in a while, this is your sign!
What's on ➡️ https://orlo.uk/pIZlk
📆 REMINDER: FREE Liverpool Portrait Sketchers session this Sat, 17 Jan, 1pm - 4pm.
✏️ BYO materials (paper, pencils etc)
☕ Basic refreshments provided but feel free to BYO
🫱🏻🫲🏽 Make likeminded friends by joining LPS on Facebook
👇
https://orlo.uk/x9C3H
A great guess - spot on with early 60s!
Who played our guessing game earlier today? It's time for the answer!
More history? Take our FREE guided tour on a Tuesday at 2pm
👇
https://orlo.uk/Qvwbc
Very close!
Guess the decade!
Anyone want to scour this image for clues and hazard a guess at the decade the photo was taken?
Answer at 4pm.
#ThrowbackThursday
Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe Gallery Talk. Join Research Associate Janaya Pickett & explore Black women’s experiences in Liverpool (1940s–70s), police responses to Black social spaces and portrayals in local media.
📅 27 Jan, 2–2:45pm
📍 VG&M
🎟️ Free
➡️ https://orlo.uk/mIoin
Part of the Sacred Spaces exhibition, this photograph captures the Sheffield Goddess Temple, one of Northern England’s hidden spiritual spaces. Established in 2015, the Temple welcomes all to experience the Divine Feminine.
🖼️ Free
📅 Tue–Sat, 10am–5pm
