Joseph Whitworth (1803-1887) was trained by Henry Maudslay and went on to make the Whitworth rifle and standardize nuts, bolts, and screws.
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This bank holiday Monday we’ll be welcoming visitors during our regular opening hours from 10am - 5pm.

Why not pay us a visit and encounter Waqas Khan’s new neon artwork ‘Khushamdeed ll’, which for all of you fluent in Urdu, will know that the neon says Welcome

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🎨 Vonnie Whitworth

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TODAY (5pm) : Professor Claire Bishop of delivers her paper "Information Overload: Research Based Art and the Politics of Attention" in the latest of our free Whitworth Studies talks - run in collaboration with https://t.co/6WXk6BVhV7

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Head over to our Instagram or Facebook page for an egg-travagant competition! 🐇

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Coloured the sketch from Sunday. Using my Rendr sketchbook I just got to try and get into more coloured work. Sorted my alcohol markers too so.....😊

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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Featured Exhibition: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, until August 2019 https://t.co/OqISRXLKGs

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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Join us tomorrow lunchtime for Walking for Wellbeing - an excellent way to get active, explore the art in our park, and make new friends https://t.co/mtLqsM0Vmf

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Join us this Tuesday for Walking for Wellbeing (12-1pm) - an excellent way to get active, explore the art in our park, and make new friends https://t.co/mtLqsM0Vmf

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The Frost Fair returns this year! Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 December 2018. Come celebrate with us. Full line-up coming soon...

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The Frost Fair returns this year! Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 December 2018. Come celebrate with us. Full line-up coming soon...#Whitworthfrostfair

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TOMORROW: Join us for Walking for Wellbeing (12-1pm) - an excellent way to get active, explore the art in our park, and make new friends https://t.co/mtLqsM0Vmf

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TODAY: Join us for Walking for Wellbeing (12-1pm) - an excellent way to get active, explore the art in our park, and make new friends https://t.co/mtLqsM0Vmf

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3rd - 4th November
Winter Artisan Fair, Whitworth Centre, Darley Dale
Steve Elliott - Derbyshire landscapes in pastel
Open moorlands, dramatic skylines, sheltered woodlands, all provide rich sources of inspiration for Steve Elliott's vibrant and light-filled paintings.

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Open moorlands, dramatic skylines, sheltered woodlands, all provide rich sources of inspiration for Steve Elliott's light-filled paintings in pastel or mixed media. From naturalistic to the near abstract, see Steve's work at the Whitworth Centre, Darley Dale 3,4 Nov

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Gary Sampson is a potter and a painter. The majority of his ceramics is functional. His oil paintings are based on aspects of his local environment. His work will be at the Winter Artisan Fair at The Whitworth Centre Darley Dale on Sat 3 & Sun 4 Nov

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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