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A black and white photograph of a roundabout (known as the “Hole in the Road”) with a view of Sheffield in the background. Cars and buses are driving round the roundabout, and in the middle, below street level, there are people walking and sitting. A black and white photograph of a roundabout (known as the “Hole in the Road”) with a view of Sheffield in the background. Cars and buses are driving round the roundabout, and in the middle, below street level, there are people walking and sitting.

Explore the exhibitions we've presented over the last few years.

Sheffield Museums Trust was established in 2021. Since then, we've worked with our communities and national and regional partners to present a wide range of exhibitions telling the city's stories, celebrating local creativity and innovation and bringing the best in art and design to Sheffield.

2026

This year's exhibitions so far have included New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection, the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 25, ArtWorks Together International 2026, When the Day is Done: New Paintings by Ryan Mosley, The Bobeam Tree, the Football Art Prize, Lives in Focus: Photography in Sheffield's Collection, Gathering Landscapes: 150 Years of Collecting and Weston Park Museum and more.

 

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An image of ceramic works placed on a white shelf against a white wall. The ceramics are of various shapes, in blue, yellow, cream and black colours.

2025

This year's exhibitions included Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Derrick Greaves: Art Worlds, The Boy with a Leg Named Brian: Memoirs by Pete McKee, Strange Presence: John Hoyland Paintings and more.

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A black and white photograph of a woman eating macarons on a bed, whilst a teenage girl irons clothes in the background.

2024

This year's exhibitions included Pioneers: John Ruskin, William Morris and the Bauhaus, Ways of Water, LAND: Photographs by Matthew Conduit, Tess Jaray: Paintings and Drawings Across 60 Years, City of Rivers and more.

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An open small altar. The open centre section features an stylised bird in gold. The interiors of the doors either side feature multicoloured illustrations.

2023

This year's exhibitions included George Fullard: Living in a Sculpture, Threshold to the Kingdom – A Film by Mark Wallinger, Dutch Flower Paintings: Exploring Art in Bloom and more.

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A photograph of a sculpture of three people caught in a walking motion. They are loosely sculpted in a brown medium

2022

This year's exhibitions included Where We Live, Brought to Light: The Remarkable Bateman Collection, Creative Connections Sheffield, Johny Pitts: Home is Not a Place, The Football Art Prize and more.

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A photograph of a blonde woman laying on the floor, holding one in leg in the air. She wears a t-shirt with a coca cola logo, a lace dress, polka dot tights and zebra striped boots. There is a metal shutter behind her.

2021

This year's exhibitions included The Sheffield Project: Photographs of a Changing City, Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things, John Hoyland: The Last Paintings, Earthbound: Contemporary Landscape from The Roberts Institute of Arts and more.  

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An oil painting of a colourful scene depicting a winding road over a bridge and through the hills of the Peak District. A river can be seen below the level of the road to the left of the painting.