Ferens Art Gallery Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Carr Ln, Hull HU1 3RA, United Kingdom

The Ferens Art Gallery is an art gallery in the English city of Kingston upon Hull. The site and money for the gallery were donated to the city by Thomas Ferens, after whom it is named. The architects were S. N. Cooke and E. C. Davies. Opened in 1927, it was restored and extended in 1991.

The Ferens Art Gallery has one of the finest regional art collections in the country. Opened in 1927, the gallery is one of nine sites that constitute Hull City Council Museums. Particular strengths include European Old Masters from the sixteenth century onwards, especially Dutch and Flemish; Marine Painting; and twentieth-century British art. The Gallery provides one of the most complete and focused overviews of the development of British and historical portraiture in the country. Highlights of the collections include 'The Grand Canal, Venice' by Canaletto; 'Portrait of a Young Woman', by Frans Hals, and important and unique British Marine Paintings by artists such as John Ward, William Frederick Settle, Henry Redmore and Thomas Jaques Somerscales.

The Ferens has a magnificent collection of paintings and sculptures, including works by European Old Masters, portraiture, marine painting, and modern and contemporary British art.

Highlights include masterpieces by Lorenzetti, Frans Hals, Antonio Canaletto, Frederic Lord Leighton, Stanley Spencer, David Hockney, Helen Chadwick and Gillian Wearing.

Our temporary exhibition galleries are currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions. We’re planning an exciting exhibition programme for 2021 with our partners. Details of the 2021 Open Exhibition will be announced in the Autumn. For updates please follow our social media channels.

Please book online and in advance. This is to help us manage the number of people, limit queuing and reduce contact. 

Parking

• Short stay pay and display parking is available at Lowgate car park on Wilberforce Drive, just a 5 minute walk away.
• There is on street parking on Saville Street and 9 designated disabled parking spaces on Paragon Street (behind City Hall).

Toilets

Please note toilets and baby changing facilities are currently limited across our museum and gallery sites.

Assistance Dogs

• Assistance dogs are welcome.

Facilities

• There is another a set of toilets to the right of the café space at the rear of the building, including a combined accessible toilet/baby change and unisex cubicles.
• The nearest Changing Places toilet is in the Wilson Centre, to the left as you go in the Queens Gardens entrance. There is an additional Changing Places toilet at the Guildhall. Please ask at the reception for directions.

Resources

• We have a manual wheelchair available to borrow
• We have an audio descriptive guide of gallery highlights. You can borrow a handset (and headphones) for a £5 returnable deposit from staff in the lobby. You can download the audio tracks to your phone by visiting https://vocaleyes.co.uk/venues/ferens-art-gallery/

Gift shop

• Our gift shop offers a variety of postcards, cards and prints, plus a selection of art and craft books.