Introducing Sheffield Museums

Sheffield Museums Trust is the charity responsible for running six of the city’s leading museums and heritage sites – Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Graves Gallery, Kelham Island Museum, Millennium Gallery, Shepherd Wheel Workshop and Weston Park Museum.

Sheffield’s museums are free and here for everyone. Discover the stories of the city and its people, see the very best in art and design and set your imagination soaring.

Here are just some of the things we've achieved last year:

• United Sheffield’s amazing collections of art, social and industrial history and natural science under the care of a single museums trust for the first time,

• Removed admission charges from all of our sites, so everyone can access and enjoy Sheffield’s inspiring collections, heritage and culture for free,

• Welcomed over 180 volunteers who generously gave almost 4000 hours of their time,

• Successfully completed the first year of a five-year programme of change and redisplay at the Graves Gallery, supported by the Ampersand Foundation,

• Welcomed over 500,000 visitors and safely reopened all six of our sites across Sheffield,

• Commissioned a Race Inclusion Maturity Assessment to support our work to provide the best museums for all our communities,

• Completed a refurbishment of the Ruskin Collection displays at the Millennium Gallery, supported by the Guild of St George,

• Grew the city’s collection with objects and stories reflecting people’s experience of the pandemic, the iconic Woollens for Signs neon sign, and major donation of artworks from Jack Kirkland through the Arts Council Cultural Gifts Scheme,

• Worked collaboratively with young people, artists and national partners to present a vibrant programme of exhibitions exploring creativity in the prison service, the work of artists Cecil Beaton, John Hoyland and Kenneth Steel, and the changing landscape around us,

• Image Weston Park Museum,

• A photograph of the entrance of Weston Park Museum taken from a high angle on a sunny summer day with trees nearby in full leaf.

Image Weston Park Museum