Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm (last admission 4.30pm). Here you can take a walk through Portsmouth’s heritage, discover the world of Sherlock Holmes, see fascinating works of art, trace the history …

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Whether a one-off event or a long standing exhibition, there’s much to see and do at Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery. The sections below showcase all there is to see at our permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions – as well as all the exciting events coming up at the museum.

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Take a look at what we’ve got coming up at Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery over the days and weeks ahead. Our events programme is regularly updated so check back for more goings on as they’re confirmed. For more information on the museums, download our Autumn/Winter Programme for 2024 (PDF, 1MB).

Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery is home to a huge variety of exhibitions that explore the city’s rich and varied history. No Place Like Pompey explores what’s special about the UK’s only island city, whilst Portsmouth at Play celebrates the myriad ways in which recreational habits have changed over the years.

Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery is the museum of Portsmouth – telling the stories of the city and its inhabitants. Displays cover everything from our world-leading collection of memorabilia related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to insights into how people would have lived in Portsmouth across the generations.

The building that now houses Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery has a history as rich and fascinating as many of the displays contained within. The site was developed into barracks more than 250 years ago, and in that time it has been bombed, …

Find out more about how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle came to Portsmouth to set up his doctor’s surgery, and ended up writing some of the earliest detective novels just to help make ends meet. Did you know that Doyle did not only write Sherlock Holmes stories?

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