Gallery in Oldham

Friendly staff love clean and well presented place

Friendly staff love clean and well presented place

I took my grandchildren in to have a look around the exhibitions. We were told that there was a room where the children could go and paint an L.S.Lowry collage. My grandchildren loved it. We then went into the children's library. There's several areas of seating and even a coat rack to hang your coats and bags. They had a little treasure hunt there and again, really enjoyed looking around for the pictures. All the staff in every area was really friendly and helpful. We can't wait to go back. We'd definitely recommend going either as a family or even for some quiet time, looking around alone. A very pleasant place to be.

I took my grandchildren in to have a look around the exhibitions. We were told that there was a room where the children could go and paint an L.S.Lowry collage. My grandchildren loved it. We then went into the children's library. There's several areas of seating and even a coat rack to hang your coats and bags. They had a little treasure hunt there and again, really enjoyed looking around for the pictures. All the staff in every area was really friendly and helpful. We can't wait to go back. We'd definitely recommend going either as a family or even for some quiet time, looking around alone. A very pleasant place to be.

Friendly staff, excellent photographic exhibition

What better place to be on a miserable day. The museum offers more than just the history to the town called Oldham.

Good look around at Gallery Oldham

It's a very interesting building. It is clean, airy, and modern. The gallery is on the upper floor, and once found is easy to navigate. Once found! The art on display is relevant and well selected. Visitors can expect to see something of interest to them personally. When I visited, I was frustrated by two things. Poor signage, and the cafe seemed to be closed to the public (the only notice was a hand written note on the door). I would not want to put anyone off visiting Gallery Oldham, but hand-on-heart I cannot recommend it either.

Great activities for children. Very helpful and enthusiastic staff.

A very modern clean airy gallery, I enjoyed my visit, nice and warm inside on a cold day. Just a shame there was no cafe!

I didn't have time to explore all of it but what I did see was impressive. Its a great space handily in the centre of Olham and so easy to get to by Metrolink.

You can find the a good collection of art 🎨 classic and contemporary painting, ceramic and some museum articles. The Gallary hold exhibitions for local artists some regular and some special. Which encourages local artists when these events are done. To get to it is a bit not easy because the traffic in Oldham and especially in that area is not easy to negotiate whoever there is a free parking 🅿 there for enough time to explore it. The metrolink is not far from it. If have time you can check the library which is in the same building

I was in the oldham gallery today , with a mini me in toe. To see the lego expedition and and cant thank you enough for how a lady called hillary treated us , so much patcience for all the children and makeing time to apeak to us all and helping any way she could .and also letting us know what elae was going on in the gallery that day . Made his day good 🤗

Gallery Oldham is a free-to-view public art gallery in the Cultural Quarter of central Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. Designed by architects Pringle Richards Sharratt, Gallery Oldham was completed in its original form in February 2002. The art gallery integrates local museum and gallery services. An extension to include the £13 million Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre opened in April 2006. The building has library and learning facilities. Programming incorporates Oldham's art, social and natural history collections alongside touring work, newly commissioned and contemporary art, international art and work produced with local communities. The gallery holds the civic collection of Oldham and much of that of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. With no permanent displays and four temporary galleries to fill, Gallery Oldham has one of the busiest exhibitions programmes in the region. Exhibitions mix touring shows with work from the gallery's own collection of art, social history and natural history. The gallery holds work by local artists including Helen Bradley, William Stott and Alan Rankle and its collections include work by British artists L. S. Lowry, John William Waterhouse and Bridget Riley. In recent years the gallery has built up a collection of studio pottery and displays ceramic works by modern makers.

Gallery Oldham is an exciting art gallery and museum that exhibits both contemporary art and work from their historic collection in innovative ways

Lovely family friendly gallery , small but perfectly formed

Felt safe in that wasnt crowded, people were wearing masks and sanitizer was provided. Nice mix of art from community and professional artists. Interesting collection worth visiting.

We always look at the exhibition and books and so much more plenty to do

It's well worth visiting this museum and art gallery. Interesting displays and a nice atmosphere.

Beautiful space with fantastic courses and lovely exhibitions that change regularly, I recently added a glass mosaic workshop

Wonderful Gallery showing top-rated exhibitions. Highly recommended.

Called in for coffee and a snack Had the rarebit was nice and very tasty Friendly staff reasonably priced will definitely come back

Bought an Alan Thompson painting and thrilled to bits!

Excellent facilities and wonderful staff at the gallery, the library and everything else they do. We love bringing our little son to the baby group activities.

Great at the small screen cinema. Nice atmosphere.

Bit strange but worth it for the Lowry and Waterhouse, other exhibits a bit eclectic.

Interesting history lesson... And the panorama was amazing. The amount of detail in the old picture of the industrial revolution was great.

One of the best galleries in the North West of England

Our art group had a really lovely Christmas lunch. There was a good choice of starters, mains and deserts. Most of us had the traditional Christmas dinner. I cannot speak highly enough of the quality. All meals were hot and the service was first class.

Well presented, helpful informed staff Very good exhibitions. Good café.

Excellent collections and intersting activities. Nice restaurant. Easy and free parking.

This cafe is in a lovely setting with loads of comfortable seats and tables.The menu is very wide and varied doing a extensive range of panninis, welsh rarebits, jacket potatoes, salads, cakes and numerous other meals, and a range of teas, coffees, and a range of cold drinks.I had a amazing salad a brunch salad consisting of a large amount of mixed leaves, tomatoes, sauted potatoes, , bacon pieces, a lovely slice of black pudding, a poached egg, 2 thick slices of toasted wholemeal bread and butter all delicious. I had a punk chai latte to drink which tasted amazing full of flavour cinnamon and spice. My son loved his baked bean and lincolnshire sausage jacket potato and side salad and his cup of tea. My wife enjoyed her carrot cake and latte.Good service and a wide and expensive menu. Recommended.

The summer flamingo hunt was great for the family and we got to see parts of the gallery we might have not chosen to go to

A lovely bit of culture in Oldham. They change their exhibits and hold all kid sof things for people to do with their kids. The keep bees on the balcony with a nice bit on teaching kids the importance of bees.

Very very small serving of soup extremely over spiced so much so it was nearly inedible. The Tuna sandwich was very dry and tastless. The coffee was nearly cold and very strong. In all a disappointing but expensive lunch.

Very good local displays and informative

Where do I start.On entering this place it was a typical greasy spoon and the food further enhanced that!!!When I was placing the order the cook and the woman taking the order were shouting at each other about orders because the cook was clearly getting muddled up with orders why she didn’t have them written down is beyond me.We was watching them and noticing all the different food safety regulations she had broken. For instance; not washing her hands once whilst we were there, not wearing gloves and cleaning with the same hands as serving.We watched her plate up our food and she literally threw my mums cheese pie on her plate and then recooked the chips that were dripping in fat on the plate. As for my scampi salad the scampi was over cooked or reheated and as you can see from the picture it wasn’t much of a salad!!!! I tried my scampi and it was rock hard so I decided to have a go at the measly salad after one bit I find a blond curly hair in it, quite convenient as the server had blond curly hair. Needless to say we left hungry!!!

very intresteresting information on the Peterloo Massacre The staff very helpful.

Always interesting and a real 'jewel' of Oldham's town centre.

great place, lots for children to learn about Oldham, great activities on in the school holidays

It was ok. A time filler. Not enough there to entertain.

I first visited as part of my UAL Extended Level 3 Diploma in Art and Design project at Oldham College 'Object Project' in January 2018. And I've been visiting ever since while in Oldham. And I'm currently one of the members of the Gallery Oldham Collective. Instagram: @galleryoldham_collective.

Nice place to visit and to kill a few how's them few hours will seem like minutes and you will be wanting extra time so you can see everything this wonderful place has to offer

There were some school holiday craft activities for kids which were excellent. Our kids are to little to apprieciate the art, I'm not sure what my excuse is! Activities were great.

Both a gallery and library, this place has been a staple in the town of Oldham for as long as I can remember. The library has a good spot to take little kids to read, it also occasionally offers events to do here. The gallery is a good place to learn about the history of the town as well as offering actual art to view. There is also a lovely bit about bees with a sofa and a small table full of things for kids to do to learn about bees as well as an actual bee hive on the landing (outside).

Superb library and gallery. Wonderful.

Excellent school trip, very informative and pitched any the right level for Year 3 children. Isabelle was great with the children.

This like rest of Oldham was a pleasant surprise

Stunning, well organised exhibitions

Small but nice to have a real gallery in Oldham. They do lots of community displays which is good. Great views from here also.

Great place. Really modern. Some good exhibitions on at times. Parking close by.

Haven't been in the gallery for a while, I use Oldham library for educational use only. I would highly recommend Oldham Lifelong Learning Service. The gallery is well worth a visit.

Absolutely fantastic place. Wonderful kids area with library books, soft play toys, Lego... gallery, shop, great cafe (the naked bean) and the base of lifelong learning. They also do brilliant events. Couldn't recommend more highly.

Great place and currently have a mental health exhibit

A fantastic resource for the town. Be sure to see all the galleries: some are a little hidden away! Great exhibitions of local and wider interest.

A decent gallery with small range of exhibits, some specifically Oldham related, which is good. I do think more could be made of the space however, and although I am passionate about all aspects of art, there wasn't enough here to occupy me for any more than an hour tops. It's above the library, and there is a handy car park within 200metres, with a cafe downstairs in the library building. It's worth one visit , just to check it out.

I dont understand how anyone could complain about this gallery! Haveing just spent 3 days there, the staff, the building and the artifacts are amazing! The layout of the galleries gives you a walk around into oldham history, true local history! I work at another museum and without hesitation direct visitors to this gallery

Great Stuffed animals and permanent exhibition pleasurable also the kingfisher school 'coloursplash' exhibition was lovely apart from this the other exhibitions where dull and uninspiring🖼.

Very interesting and informative. Could have more elements aimed at young children under 8.

The staff was really nice and kind . You can use the computers , do homework , read , play or even go to the exhibition . Had an awesome time here

The go baby sessions on a Thursday are amazing and the staff are so lovely!!

A lovely place to visit. They have a fab baby group full of sensory stimulation and a group for toddlers.

I love this place! The Oldham Panarama is worth a visit on its own.

Great for kids, particularly enjoyed the local collection and the panorama.

Wonderful inspiring space, very welcoming

Hands on interaction for the kids. Plenty to see for the adults. Visiting arts always"interesting".

WOW you need to visit. Its an unforgettable place that really inspires.

Excellent free and intresting exhibitions

Nice gallery with interesting paintings.

Great for kids - many events going on weekends / school hols. Great for adults - changing exhibitions and performances throughout the year. Love it

As a brilliant natural history collection that should be on permanent display. Maybe if the future development ever happens.

More of an oasis than you think can exist so close to the town centre.

Worth a visit. Good rooms on ground floor to have meetings

Excellent galleries with a great range of arty and museum objects (especially natural history).

Great combination of Library and Gallery in the centre of Oldham

Video Game (1979-1989) exhibition, which is on summer 2014 is fantastic. Great to see some much classic gaming hardware/software.

Always something new at the Gallery. Relax and see the exhibition, then go to the new cafe for lunch or a drink. Really good place to visit.