Welcome to Bradford District Museums & Galleries.

We look forward to welcoming you at one of our four wonderful sites – Bolling Hall, Bradford Industrial Museum, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery or Cliffe Castle Museum and Park.

Current Exhibitions

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Where It Began –Osman Yousefzada

3 May 2024 10:00 am – 13 October 2024 4:00 pm

Bradford Industrial Museum

We Built this City

30 October 2024 11:00 am – 30 October 2024 3:00 pm

Join our Big Tinkering Challenge and build your own bridge which must hold a toy car or train for two minutes!

Black and white etching of woodland. The trees are bare of foliage and in the foreground, there is a fallen trunk

Cliffe Castle Museum

Within Nature – East & West

1 June 2024 10:00 am – 1 December 2024 4:00 pm

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Mother Tongue – Sarah Maple

24 September 2024 – 8 December 2024

Bradford Industrial Museum

‘New Lands – Hidden Hands’ by Rhian Kempadoo-Millar

13 May 2024 10:00 am – 5 January 2025 4:00 pm

The new Bradford Town Hall being constructed. The building’s exterior looks completed with some building materials surrounding it and outside the entrance

Bradford Industrial Museum

‘We Built This City’: 150 Years of the Bradford Society of Architects and Surveyors

28 September 2024 – 2 March 2025

Reindeer bone (metatarsal) with a carving of a cow-like creature

Cliffe Castle Museum

Ice Age Art Now

21 June 2025 – 14 September 2025

Travel back in time at this British Museum Partnership Exhibition with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and encounter works of art dating back thousands of years.

Our Venues

Learn With Us

Bradford District Museum and Galleries’ Learning Team offer a range of interactive, hands-on, curriculum-linked workshops for schools.

For further information, please click the link below to visit our learning page.

What’s On

selection of bricks with local names on them - including Shipley,Keighley etc

Bradford Industrial Museum

Talk: History Of Bricks

10 October 2024 2:00 pm – 10 October 2024 3:00 pm

Join local historian Derek Barker and learn about the often-ignored local industry and building material of brickmaking and bricks.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers at Bradford Industrial Museum

10 October 2024 11:00 am – 10 October 2024 3:00 pm

Join the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers every Thursday 11am – 3pm in Bradford Industrial Museum.

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Museums for Play & Growth (Cartwright Hall)

11 October 2024 10:30 am – 11 October 2024 12:30 pm

Bolling Hall Museum

Heritage Craft Workshop: Willow Birdfeeders

12 October 2024 11:00 am – 12 October 2024 4:00 pm

Come and weave bird feeders from Willow with Paula Taylor from Sponge Tree.

Photo Archive

See a range of photographs relating to everything here at Bradford District Museums & Art Galleries.

Get Involved

Could you support our work by sponsoring, donating or volunteering?

All opportunities have flexible commitment requirements and aim to provide a rewarding and enriching experience for all.

Latest News

Bradford District Museum & Galleries

Heather Millard
October 7, 2024

British Wool Collection – Round up Blog

Bradford District Museum & Galleries

Heather Millard
September 16, 2024

British Wool Collection Project – Blog 2

Bradford District Museum & Galleries

Heather Millard
September 2, 2024

The British Wool Collection Project – Blog 1

Callum, currently working on archiving and researching around the wonderful collection of British Wool clothing we have which was designed and created for the British Food and Farming Year, 1989

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Heather Millard
August 19, 2024

Dreams and Songs to Sing – More stories

As 'Dreams and Songs to sing' at Cartwright Hall is being to draw to end (The final day of the exhibition is on the 8th September), we wanted to share a couple more of the stories from the community that are in the exhibition