Museums & Galleries

The Box, Plymouth

The Box is Plymouth’s major new cultural and heritage attraction – a museum, art gallery and archive which opened in September to brilliant reviews.

The former City Museum and Art Gallery, Central Library and St Luke’s Church buildings have been transformed into an amazing venue and visitor experience with a series of large-scale galleries that highlight the city’s art, natural history, human history, film, photography and archival collections.

Additional galleries host an exciting programme of temporary exhibitions throughout the year. Current exhibitions include ‘Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters', which will be on display until 27 February 2022. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition includes more than 300 amazing Aboriginal artworks by over 100 different artists. Paintings, sculpture, multimedia and more are all shown here in Plymouth for the first time outside Australia. 

You can stock up on gifts and souvenirs in the shop and enjoy some great food and drink in the The Box Kitchen & Bar while you’re there.

And, there's still plenty more to see in Plymouth…

Visit the Mayflower Museum on the Barbican and Smeatons Tower on The Hoe, as well as a host of wonderful art galleries, including The Arts Institute and MIRROR at Plymouth College of Art. 

Many of these are situated around the historic Barbican or in the city centre. You will find classic and contemporary artwork from both local and national artists to suit all tastes and budgets.