Wellbeing and Sensory walk around Lister Park
Film-maker David Hare has created a beautiful sensory walk around Lister Park exploring the nature, animals and sounds you can experience as you walk around. This film is perfect to view from your armchair or before and after your visit as a memory of your visit to Cartwright Hall.
We have lots of events coming up at Cartwright, which we will add underneath the film soon.
About Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Cartwright Hall will be closed between Mon 23rd February – Friday 27th March (re-open Saturday 28th March)
The Refreshment Rooms cafe closed between Mon 23rd February – Sunday 8th March (re-open Tuesday 10th March)
Cartwright Hall can be found in stunning Lister Park, only a mile from Bradford City Centre.
Cartwright Hall (now part of Bradford District Museums and Galleries) has been collecting for over one hundred years and its collection includes works by master printmakers such as Francisco Goya, William Blake and Walter Sickert and works by modern masters –such as Pop Artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, LS Lowry, Anish Kapoor and Supta Biswas.
Bradford was one of the first UK local authority museum services to start collecting works by South Asian and Black artists and Cartwright Hall showcases this amazing collection.
We regularly rotate or change the collection on long-term display. Please check the website and our What’s On guide to find out about current exhibitions.
Cartwright Hall was built on the former site of Manningham Hall and opened as a gallery in 1904. The hall housed a display of loaned artworks before acquiring its own collection of Victorian and Edwardian works using funds from the 1904 Bradford Great Exhibition.
From September 2025 until February 2026, Cartwright Hall is proud to host the Turner Prize 2025, one of the world’s leading awards for contemporary art. This internationally significant exhibition brings together work by the four shortlisted artists, offering audiences in Bradford the chance to experience some of the most exciting and thought-provoking art being made today. (Please note the Hockney Gallery will not be on public display during the Turner Prize.)
Turner Prize tickets are available from the Bradford 2025 website now, and you will need to book for entry.
The Refreshment Room Café is at the bottom of the building.
Lister Park features a boating lake, adventure playground and features the Mughal Gardens. The park recently won another Green Flag award, reflecting its status as one of the best maintained parks in the country.
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Opening times
Cartwright Hall will operating amended opening times during the Turner Prize.
Mon-Closed
Tuesday-Wednesday 10am-4pm (last entry 3pm)
Thursday – Sunday 10am to 6pm (last entry 5pm)
Cartwright closed between Mon 23rd February – Friday 27th March (re-open Saturday 28th Feb)
The Refreshment Rooms cafe closed between Mon 23rd February – Sunday 8th March (re-open Tuesday 10th March)
By public transport
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery is in the middle of Lister Park, one and a half miles from the City Centre on the A650 Manningham Lane. There is limited parking in Lister Park, accessible from North Park Road (off Oak Lane). Lister Park is served by many city centre bus services including 23, 25, 26, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 622, 647, 662, w5. Cartwright Hall is about ten minutes’ uphill walk from Frizinghall railway station.
For help in planning your journey by public transport, please visit www.wymetro.com.
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