The Art Galleries

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery is home to a stunning collection of artworks by world famous artists including Bacon, Doig, Lowry and Marc. Our Curator of Fine Art often conducts tours of these galleries – visit the events page for further details.

Our World Through Art
Gallery 6, The Permanent Collections

Artists enable us to design and communicate visual ideas about the world in which we live. They show us  new, exciting ways to imagine and see our surroundings and ourselves. 'Our World Through Art' displays a regularly changing selection from Leicester's permanent collections featuring artworks from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The gallery enable visitors to discover and explore the different ways that art has celebrated our changing world.

Showing the brightest and best of the permanent collection, key works range from powerful 20th-century artists such as Francis Bacon, Peter Doig and the Old Masters to new, vibrant works from African-Caribbean and South Asian artists. These changing displays will re-invigorate this beautiful gallery with space, colour and life, offering new connections and pathways of meaning to our diverse audiences.

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