Direct from the National Portrait Gallery, over fifty works from some of the best contemporary photographers are on their way to Sheffield 📸 The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize is a powerful celebration of how we see each other, and ourselves. From formal portraits to spontaneous captures, the works all tell fascinating stories of what it means to be human 📖 Opening at Millennium Gallery on Sat 21 February, don’t miss your only chance to see these works outside of London ✨ Supported by Taylor Wessing. Image details: Owen Cooper by Dominic Whisson from the series The Threshold, 2025 © Dominic Whisson Alex on Fairground Ride by Soulla Petrou from the series Alex's Brighton Adventure, 2024 © Soulla Petrou Andrei, man of steel by Ed Alcock from the series Buried Treasure, 2024 © Ed Alcock Jaidi playing by Byron Mohammad Hamzah from the series Bunga dan Tembok 2025 © Byron Mohammad Hamzah Mel by Martina Holmberg from the series The Outside of the Inside, 2024 © Martina Holmberg Ottavia Sotto Casa Mia by Elena Bianca Zagari From the series Un Mondo Proprio (A World Of One’s Own), 2025 © Elena Bianca Phil by Roj Whitelock, 2025 © Roj Whitelock Welcome to Sheffield

🤩 BAFTA-award-winning TV presenter George Webster popped into The Millennium Gallery for a special look at the ArtWorks Together International 2026 exhibition! Thank you for coming George, we can’t wait to find out which artworks you’ve chosen as winners when they’re announced on 12 Feb 🤫 In the meantime, ArtWorks Together is an international festival based in Sheffield offering adult artists who have a learning disability, are autistic, or both, the opportunity to showcase their talents. The exhibition features shortlisted works by 70 artists from 21 countries, highlighting the breadth and depth of artistic practice by artists who have a learning disability and / or autism. On display until Sun 31 May 👀💐 Exhibition details: ArtWorks Together International 2026 Sat 24 Jan - Sun 31 May Millennium Gallery Please donate £5 Welcome to Sheffield

Last week, we welcomed the news that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is investing in museums with £1.5 billion funding for culture over the next five years. This includes a 5% uplift in funding for National Portfolio Organisations like us and further rounds of Museums Transformation Funding, both of which are vital to our operations. Investment like this is critical in ensuring museums up and down the country can provide meaningful, inspiring experiences the people they welcome and work with. We’re hugely grateful to DCMS for this investment in museums, but also to you – our visitors 👏 The support we receive through your donations and the income we make when you choose to shop here has a direct impact on our work creating life-shaping experiences for everyone. Thanks to your generosity, we’re able to safeguard Sheffield’s heritage and showcase the multitude of stories that make the city truly unique, something we were so happy to celebrate with everyone who visited or exhibited at the annual Sheffield Heritage Fair at The Millennium Gallery over the weekend (all 1000 of you)! Arts Council England

Morning everyone, here's the special events we have coming up this week, hope you can join us! ☕ 👶Art at the Start 📅Wed 28 Jan, 12:30 - 2:30pm 📍Millennium Gallery Get creative and messy with your little one in these new, specially designed sessions for babies and toddlers in the city centre. 🎟️Suggested donation £3, just drop in 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/art-at-the-start-28-jan/ 🎨Graves Art Club 📅Thu 29 Jan, 11am – 1pm 📍Millennium Gallery Find creative inspiration in the Millennium Gallery with this welcoming and supportive art group. Note: Graves Art Club will take place at Millennium Gallery until 12 Feb. 🎟️£7.50, pay on the day 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/graves-art-club/ 🧸Fridays Under 5s - Get Stuck In! 📅Fri 30 Jan, 10am – 12:30pm 📍Weston Park Museum Join us for hands-on creative fun for you and your little ones. 🎟️Suggested donation £3, just drop in 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/fridays-under-5s-get-stuck-in/ 🌈Workshop: Pigment & Paint Making - Colours inspired by John Ruskin 📅Sat 31 Jan, 10:30am – 4pm 📍Millennium Gallery Join artist and pigment specialist Lucy Mayes for a hands-on exploration of historical colour, inspired by John Ruskin’s 19th-century palette. 🎟️£80, booking essential 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/workshop-pigment-paint-making-colours-inspired-by-john-ruskin-2026/

Are you a florist or plant seller? Do you have a plant nursery or a passion for gardening and want to share your knowledge? 🌱 We’re looking for new traders to join us in 2026 at our usual spot in Castlegate! If you’re interested or want more info, drop us an email info@pollenmarket.co.uk 💌 Details on our next market soon!

Behind the scenes at the Millennium Gallery! 👀 Our curators, tech team and the festival producers ArtWorks Together are busy installing a vibrant and ambitious collection of contemporary work celebrating the breadth of artistic talent and creativity of artists with a learning disability and / or autism 💫 Get ready for a dazzling array of paintings, drawings, textiles, sculpture and film! This is a truly international exhibition, with artists from over 23 countries! Opening on Sat 24 Jan at the Millennium Gallery. Artworks Together International 2026 24 Jan - 31 May The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Please donate £5 #letscreate #sheffieldmuseums #whatsonsheff #creativesheffiled @visitsheffield

Vertical Panorama: Oak Tree, 2013 Hannah Downing (born 1985) graphite on paper This drawing has been a popular part of New Horizons for its incredible detail. The artist was inspired by the details and textures of the landscape on her journey to work. The artist describes how she studied nature from each direction, from the moss on the ground below to the branches above. The extreme sense of perspective gives a powerful impression of the tree towering above the viewer. It was produced from a composite image of many photographs, Downing describes how, ‘The act of re-making the image carries with it its own type of looking, another relationship between the image and material across time’. Visit New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection to see highlights of the paintings, works on paper, sculpture and video art that have joined the collection over the last ten years. ✨ Open now until - Sun 23 Jan Millennium Gallery Please donate £5 👏 #sheffieldmuseums #visitsheffield #creativesheffield #letscreate @aceagrams @visitsheffield

‘I’m really interested in the energy that occurs when multiple objects are placed together, and I think this goes back to my love of anthropological collections.’ @lubnachowdhary Join us in Lubna Chowdhary’s studio to discover her practice creating colourful, bold sculpture, ceramic installations, painting, print and textile works. Lubna Chowdhary is renowned for working with diverse materials, including ceramic, wood and fabric, to create bold works that draw on seemingly binary cultural influences to question value systems. Certain Times LII, 2021 by Lubna Chowdhary was aquired for Sheffield’s collection in 2023. Head to Youtube for the full film. 📍 See Certain Times LII, 2021 by Lubna Chowdhary, on display at New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection until Sun 25 Jan at the Millennium Gallery. #sheffieldmuseums @visitsheffield #creativesheffield #letscreate #sheffieldexploringlocal #acefunded @jhavericontemporary

✨ Coming soon! ArtWorks Together International 2026 opens at The Millennium Gallery on Sat 24 Jan ✨ ArtWorks Together is an international art festival based in Sheffield offering adult artists who have a learning disability, are autistic, or both, the opportunity to showcase their talents. The festival exhibition features shortlisted works by 70 artists from 21 countries, highlighting the breadth and depth of artistic practice by artists who have a learning disability and autistic artists working internationally today, from South Yorkshire to South Asia 🌍 Image details: Carlos Biggerman, Blue Hour at Arthur Pass, New Zealand Cecile Jeanne Fraeye, La fête (The party) Fliss Quick/Joyce Brown Half-baked books Rhia Janta-Cooper, Red Road to Sky ArtWorks Together International 2026 Sat 24 Jan - Sun 31 May Millennium Gallery Please donate £5

Morning everyone, here's the special events we have coming up this week, hope you can join us! ☕ 👶Baby Friendly Art Club 📅Tue 20 Jan, 11am – 12:30pm 📍Millennium Gallery Develop your artistic skills in a relaxed setting with this specially designed art class for parents or carers with young babies under 12 months. 🎟️£9, booking recommended 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/baby-friendly-art-club-jan-2026/ ✏️Feel Good Art Club 📅Wed 21 Jan, 6-7:30pm 📍Millennium Gallery Develop your artistic skills in a relaxed setting at the Millennium Gallery. 🎟️£9, booking recommended 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/feel-good-art-club-17-dec/ 🎨Graves Art Club 📅Thu 22 Jan, 11am – 1pm 📍Graves Gallery Find creative inspiration in the Millennium Gallery with this welcoming and supportive art group. Note: Graves Art Club will take place at Millennium Gallery until 12 Feb. 🎟️£7.50, pay on the day 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/graves-art-club/ 🧸Fridays Under 5s - Get Stuck In! 📅Fri 23 Jan, 10am – 12:30pm 📍Weston Park Museum Join us for hands-on creative fun for you and your little ones. 🎟️Suggested donation £3, just drop in 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/fridays-under-5s-get-stuck-in/ ✏️Life Drawing 📅Fri 23 Jan, 10:30am – 12:30pm 📍Millennium Gallery Develop your drawing skills working from a nude model with support from one of our regular artist tutors. 🎟️£11, book in advance 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/life-drawing-sep-dec-2025/ 🩸Lunchtime Talk: Bloody Art 📅Fri 23 Jan, 1-1:45pm 📍Millennium Gallery Join Rev Suzanne Nockels to hear about the use of human blood in art, looking at and reflecting on two artworks by Mathew Weir. 🎟️Suggested donation £5, booking recommended 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/lunchtime-talk-bloody-art/ 🏙️Sheffield Heritage Fair 📅Sat 24 Jan, 10am – 4pm & Sun 25 Jan, 11am – 4pm 📍Millennium Gallery Join us for a celebration of Sheffield’s rich history, as we showcase the work of key heritage groups from around the city in a weekend-long fair at the Millennium Gallery. 🎟️Suggested donation £2, just drop in 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/sheffield-heritage-fair-2026/