Plan A Visit

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

Entry into Cartwright Hall Art Gallery is Free, and no booking is required.

We have a limited number of accessible parking spaces to the rear of Cartwright Hall.   To gain access to these spaces, you need to ring 01274 431212 so a member of our front of house team can unlock the gate on the access road and subsequently welcome you to the accessible entrance.  Access to all departments is by a lift. Accessible toilet. Baby changing unit. For further Cartwright Hall accessible entry information visit AccessAble

Free Wi-Fi available.

Cartwright Hall is set in the magnificent, Green Flag-awarded grounds of Lister Park, with a boating lake, adventure playground and Mughal Gardens.

To prevent damage to works of art and for your comfort and safety, we ask that you use the lockers provided to store large bags and rucksacks during your visit.

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery has been collecting prints for over one hundred years and its collection includes works by master printmakers such as Francisco Goya, William Blake and Walter Sickert and by modern masters – Pop Artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Richard Hamilton. We also have the four major series of prints produced by David Hockney; Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, The Blue Guitar, A Rake’s Progress and Illustrations of the Poetry of C. P. Cavafy. For enquires regarding the print collection please contact cartwright.hall@bradford.gov.uk

Well known artists currently on display within the  permanent galleries include such names as Paula Rego, Yinka Shonibare, Anish Kapoor, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dhruva Mistry, Cornelia Parker, Salima Hashmi, LS Lowry, Arpana Caur, Francis Newton Souza, Damien Hirst plus many decorative arts, Asian textiles and calligraphy.

For images of work in our art collection available for reproduction, please go to www.bridgemanimages.com

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: 10am-4pm

Wednesday: 10am-4pm

Thursday: 10am-4pm

Friday: 10am-4pm

Saturday: 11am-4pm

Sunday: 11am-4pm

We have a café on-site, offering refreshments on your visit.

The café is open 10am-3:30pm Monday-Saturday, and 11am-3:30pm on Sunday. Food is served until 3pm.