What’s On
Liverpool is a vibrant city, with plenty of activities to suit all tastes. Find out what’s happening and when with our handy ‘What’s On’ calendar.
5th May 2024 - 28th September 2025
Bees: A Story of Survival
World Museum
Extended until September 28 2025 and kids under 12 go free! Immerse yourself in an exhibition that brings together art and science to explore one of nature’s most incredible creatures – the bee. This exhibition is a story of 120 million years of adaptation and survival. Bees have lived on the planet since the time...
5th February 2025 - 27th April 2025
Shiraz Bayjoo: Ile de France
Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
Shiraz Bayjoo’s film Ile de France explores the diverse landscape and history of Shiraz Bayjoo’s home country, Mauritius. The artist uses moving image to examine the impact of colonialism which remains visible across the island today. You’ll see the country’s rugged coastline, French graffiti found in early settlements, sugar plantations overgrown with plants and vines...
6th February 2025 - 11th May 2025
The Plant that Stowed Away
Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
Through art in the Tate Collection, The Plant that Stowed Away traces the connections between the trading history of cities like Liverpool and the global movements of plants and people. This display is inspired by the Weeds of Wallasey series by Wirral-born photographer Chris Shaw which highlights the battle between nature and the post-industrial landscape...
12th February 2025 - 20th December 2025
Elizabeth Smolen: Trailblazer
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Discover the life of local legend Elizabeth Smolen, a Polish refugee who settled in Birkenhead and became a champion scooter racer and successful businesswoman. A keen motorcyclist and engineer, Smolen made a name for herself by repairing, dealing and racing scooters and became part of Wirral’s scooter scene. Elizabeth Smolen: Trailblazer explores Smolen’s early life...
12th February 2025 - 20th December 2025
Subterranean Elevator
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Subterranean Elevator has been conceived by artist Di Mainstone, and developed with a team of inter-disciplinary specialists. The installation invites intrepid visitors to explore the inner worlds of soil and the subconscious mind. On entering a dark, elevator-shaped environment, they will feel a soft earth-like substance beneath their feet, where they can stand, sit, or...
12th February 2025 - 20th December 2025
Albert Richards
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
March 2025 will mark 80 years since the passing of Albert Richards, the youngest official war artist to be killed in action during WWII. The Williamson holds over two hundred of his works, spanning from his days at the Wallasey School of Art to the frontlines of France in 1944. These works show the incredible...
12th February 2025 - 20th December 2025
Philip Wilson Steer: In Conversation
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Born in Birkenhead, Philip Wilson Steer was a pioneer of impressionism in Britain during the late nineteenth century. Studying in Paris in the 1880s, he was exposed to this radical way of painting after seeing works by the likes of Degas and Manet. With his loose approach to painting and depictions of scenes that were...
12th February 2025 - 30th June 2025
Going To The Match Creative Commission by Marge Bradshaw
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Following the loan of ‘Going to the Match’ by L S Lowry, The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum have commissioned award-winning photographer Marge Bradshaw to work with Liverpool Trans and Enby FC. Funded by Arts Council England, Marge will produce a short social documentary and portrait photography series in response to Going to the Match....
21st February 2025 - 11th May 2025
Christopher Kulendran Thomas
FACT Liverpool
Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ work explores the complex legacies of imperialism. A British artist of Sri Lankan-Tamil descent, Christopher has been using artificial intelligence technologies over much of the last decade to examine the foundational fictions of Western individualism. His new exhibition, Safe Zone, features two bodies of work that manifest the historical mediums of soft...
21st February 2025 - 11th May 2025
Bahar Noorizadeh
FACT Liverpool 88 Wood Street L1 4DQ
Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, theorist, writer and filmmaker based in London. Her work explores the histories of neoliberalism, speculation, finance, fiction, credit, value, the weird and the unknown. In Free to Choose, she explores the credit banking system as a time-travelling machine through a story set in Hong Kong that spans decades. Free to...
