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To make planning your visit a little easier, we’ve gathered together information which you may find useful.

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Accessibility

We strive to make our premises and operations as accessible as possible.

Opening Times

Tuesday to Saturday
11:00 – 17:00

Free Entry

Our Mission

Creating a context, challenging perceptions, promoting creativity, delivering contemporary visual art for all.

Since 1998

300+ Exhibitions

Our Purpose

To broaden access to and improve public experience of visual art in NI.

Keep us free

All our exhibitions, events, artist talks and family art workshops is always free of charge, but we could do with a helping hand!

£3

Pays for snacks & drinks for a child attending a workshop.

£5

Pays for two school 
art packs.

£10

Pays for materials for a community 
workshop participant.

£20

Pays for 50 Junior 
Gallery Newsletters.

£30

Pays for an artist mentoring session.

Donating even the price of a cup of coffee helps us to keep bringing visual art to as many people as possible.

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Other ways to help

Thank you so much for all your generosity!

Buy at the bookshop

Our shop stocks limited edition art books, exhibition catalogues, prints, artworks, tote bags and postcards… Profits from all sales go to artists and to the Gallery.

Follow us on socials

Share the love! Like and share our posts, particularly about events. Send us pictures of the artwork you create from our GTG Workshops.

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Share this page with friends and family who love art!

Your generosity helps us continue

Supporting Northern Ireland artists

We provide hours of one-to-one mentoring and advice to artists here every year. We also provide vital financial support by commissioning artists to create new online content such as our GTG Artists Present series and workshops. We showcase emerging artists in Project Space exhibitions and in online exhibitions designed to help them sell their work, like LOVE ART BUY ART. And this year we launched our Golden Thread Gallery Mentoring & Exhibition Award, presented to a University of Ulster School of Art Graduate based on their MFA work and show.

Step into the exhibition.

Immerse yourself in this exhibition! Explore it at your own pace from anywhere in the world. Click below to enter the Matterport 3D walkthrough experience.

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Getting here

Get here by walking.

Parking spaces are available in the Car Park, behind our building. Follow Signage for ‘Gateshead Quays’ and ‘Other Car Parks’ until specific signage for Baltic Car Park becomes visible. Spaces are pay on exit and you can pay by card or cash.

Our Car Park charges are as follows:

Up to 1 hour: £2.00
Up to 2 hours: £3.50
Up to 3 hours: £5.00
Thereafter: £1.50/hour

Get here by car.

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Get here by bus or train.

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Get here by bicycle.

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Learning resources

Family friendly resources to get creative at home.

Activity Sheet

Belfast Landmarks

Print and colour in these famous Belfast landmarks. Can you name them all? Which ones have you visited? Send us a picture of your finished work and we can share it online!

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Video

Autumn Trees

We’re still celebrating Autumn by enjoying the last few weeks of colourful leaves on the trees, before they all fall and the branches are bare… until Spring arrives!

Watch Video

Video

Creepy Cats!

Happy Halloween from GTG! Celebrate the spooky season with this creepy cat artwork!

Watch Video

Activity Sheet

Love Northern Ireland

We live in a special part of the world, and we all hope for a peaceful and happy future. Print and colour in this illustration of Northern Ireland as brightly as you can! Send us a picture of your artwork and we can share it online!

Download Resource

Help fund our work

Through a one-off or repeat donation, you’ll enable us to
continue showcasing art and culture with our community.

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