Swansea Museum

10/06/2026

A rare book of beautiful hand-painted Gower landscapes has gone on display in Swansea 🎨

🖌️ Mary Wood painted Sketches in Gower in the mid-1800s - a book of 27 illuminated paintings depicting the Gower Peninsula, kept within her family ever since and rarely seen by anyone outside it.

📜 The book is a rare example of Missal Painting - a Victorian revival of medieval manuscript illumination that was hugely popular with amateur painters, particularly women, in the 1850s and 60s. Each page combines intricate decorative borders with hand-painted scenes in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript.

🏛️ The family has now donated the book to Swansea Museum, where it will be on permanent display for the public to enjoy for generations to come.

📍 Find it on the ground floor of Swansea Museum - through the entrance, down the steps, turn left. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 4:30pm. Free entry.

Big thanks to Swansea Museum for inviting us down to check out this local treasure up close!

Source: Swansea Museum

29/04/2026

29/04/2026

Swansea is getting one of Britain's biggest contemporary art exhibitions in 2027 - and it's coming to venues across the city 🎨

🏛️ British Art Show 10 is coming to Swansea from 12 February to 16 May 2027 - making Swansea the only stop in Wales for one of the UK's most significant recurring contemporary art exhibitions.

🎭 The exhibition - titled A Chorus of Strangers - will be curated by Ekow Eshun and bring together over 30 artists to explore human connection and the figure of the "Other" in divided times, across themes of Moments of Being, Ways of Living and States of Nature.

📍 Venues across Swansea will host the exhibition, including Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Elysium , GS Artists Swansea, Mission Gallery, Swansea Museum and Volcano.

🎨 The show will feature painting, sculpture, ceramics, film, sound and installation - and over its four-decade history has previously featured artists including Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, David Hockney and Lucian Freud.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Swansea is one of just five UK cities on the tour, alongside Coventry, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle-Gateshead, and is the only Welsh city to feature.

💬 Karen MacKinnon, curator at Glynn Vivian, said: "This exhibition will create new opportunities for local artists and a lasting creative legacy for Swansea."

🗓️ British Art Show 10 comes to Swansea: 12 February - 16 May 2027.

Source: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery / Hayward Gallery Touring | Image: Roger Hiorns. Untitled (2005-10). Installation view, British Art Show 7, 2010 - 11. Photo: Kieron McCarron.

22/04/2026

📢Hayward Gallery Touring announces title, concept and selection of participating artists for 10th edition of British Art Show. ✨️

‘British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers’, launches in Coventry in October 2026 before touring to Swansea, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle Gateshead.
Ekow Eshun’s curatorial vision will bring together over 30 artists to provide a vital overview of the most exciting art produced in the UK during the past five years.

Venues to host British Art Show 10 in Swansea include Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Elysium Gallery, GS Artists, Mission Gallery, Swansea Museum, and Volcano Theatre.

British Art Show 10 is produced by Hayward Gallery Touring and forms a key part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary national programme.

📢Hayward Gallery Touring yn cyhoeddi teitl, cysyniad ac enwau’r detholiad o artistiaid sy’n cymryd rhan yn British Art Show 10.✨️

British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers, yn lansio yng Nghofentri ym mis Hydref 2026, cyn teithio i Abertawe, Bryste, Sheffield a Newcastle Gateshead.
Bydd gweledigaeth guradurol Ekow Eshun yn cael gan ddod â thros 30 o artistiaid at ei gilydd i roi trosolwg hanfodol o’r gelf fwyaf cyffrous a gynhyrchwyd yn y DU yn ystod y pum mlynedd diwethaf.

Bydd y lleoliadau a fydd yn cyflwyno British Art Show 10 yn Abertawe yn cynnwys Oriel Gelf Glynn Vivian, Oriel Elysium, GS Artists, Oriel Mission, Amgueddfa Abertawe a Theatr Volcano.

Cynhyrchir British Art Show 10 gan Hayward Gallery Touring ac mae’n rhan allweddol o raglen genedlaethol i ddathlu pen-blwydd y Southbank Centre yn 75 oed.

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🖼️● Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, A Days Work , 2025. Courtesy the Artist and Arcadia Missa, London. Photography: Tom Carter.
● Nengi Omuku, One Particular Man, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.
● Alex Margo Arden, Accounts, 2025. © the artist. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre London.

22/04/2026

02/04/2026

17/03/2026

There’s nothing like sharing a passion with friends 📱

🏛️: Swansea Museum Amgueddfa Abertawe
📍: Swansea, Wales
🖼️: “Artists at 'The Mermaid' in Mumbles,” Alfred Dixon (1842–1919), 1886. Image credit: City & County of Swansea: Swansea Museum Collection.

27/02/2026

Caffaeliad newydd. Mewn pryd ar gyfer Dydd Gŵyl Dewi. Het a chap mob traddodiadol Cymreig, ynghyd ag anfoneb ddyddiedig Mai 4ydd 1936. Wedi’i wneud ar gyfer Mrs. Lewis o Dreboeth.


New acquisition. Just in time for Dydd Gŵyl Dewi. Traditional Welsh hat and mobcap, complete with invoice dated May, 4th 1936. Made for Mrs. Lewis of Treboeth.

“Ladies Welsh Top Hat. Made as a great favour by Miss Davies’.

13/02/2026

Gweithdy Daliwr Haul

Dydd Mercher 18fed o Chwefror
Am ddim, Galwch heibio, Pob oed
10am i 1pm

Cipiwch eich golau eich hun gyda daliwr haul aml-liw! Ymunwch â’n artist i greu addurn bywiog i’w hongian yn eich ffenestr.

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Sun Catcher Workshop

Wednesday 18th February
Free, Drop in, All ages
10am to 1pm

Capture your own light with a multi-colored sun catcher! Join our artist to create a vibrant decoration to hang in your window.