Lightbulb moments
From 11 September 2025
This exhibition explores the origins of some of the city’s most remarkable discoveries, innovations, and insights, and invites visitors to reflect on what makes ideas possible in the first place.
Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe
11 October 2025 - 1 August 2026
Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe is a celebration of black musicians from Toxteth in the 1950s and 1960s, featuring striking portraits by Liverpool photographer Ean Flanders.
Independents Biennial - Claire Beerjeraz
7 June - 11 October 2025
Claire Beerjeraz examines the lasting impacts of colonialism and slavery and how these histories are displayed, contained, and remembered in institutional settings.
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Migration, Refuge & Solidarity
Pop Up Exhibition 7-9 November 2025
Discover two powerful pop-up exhibits exploring migration, displacement, and community: 'A Place Along the Way: Stories from Samos' and 'Stories of Solidarity'
Seeing Green
Ongoing
This display of paintings invites viewers to consider the colour green. Associations differ around the globe and through history, but in modern Britain green tends to be linked to nature and environmental issues.
Play of Light – A display of darkness and illumination
Ongoing
Using the play of light against darkness to add drama and mood has been a feature of art since the Renaissance. This small display shows a variety of ways the technique was applied by British artists of the late Georgian and Victorian eras.