People and Place: Art Collection Showcase

People and Place: Art Collection Showcase
The Box, Plymouth

When: 04 February 2023 to 18 February 2024
Where: The Box, Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX
Time: 10am - 5pm
Cost: Admission free. No need to book.
Suitable for: Any age

10am-5pm Tuesday-Sunday + selected bank holidays

Enjoy an updated presentation from The Box’s amazing permanent art collection.

See a salon-style hang of landscapes showing Plymouth through the ages, plus a mass case display of decorative art featuring ceramics, silver, craft, textiles and Plymouth Porcelain.

New for 2023 is a selection of works by female artists including paintings by Wilhemina Barns-Graham, Elizabeth Adela Forbes and Rose Hilton. Drawings by Dame Barbara Hepworth, plus new acquisitions by the much-loved Beryl Cook and 2019 Turner Prize winner Tai Shani are also on display.

Closed for Christmas/New Year on 23, 24, 25, 26 and 31 December and 1 January.

Exhibitions & Projects

  • Documentary Photography Open 2025

    Documentary Photography Open 2025

    The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

    25 January 2025 to 08 March 2025

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  • Osman Yousefzada   When will we be good enough

    Osman Yousefzada When will we be good enough

    The Box, Plymouth

    02 November 2024 to 09 March 2025

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  • Creating Communities: 25 Years of North Devon Homes and the History of Barnstaple Housing

    Creating Communities: 25 Years of North Devon Homes and the History of Barnstaple Housing

    The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

    08 February 2025 to 22 March 2025

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  • Pressing Images: prints from Exeter's fine art collection

    Pressing Images: prints from Exeter's fine art collection

    Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery

    24 October 2024 to 30 March 2025

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  • Ceramics Residency Exhibition: Platter by Florence Dwyer

    Ceramics Residency Exhibition: Platter by Florence Dwyer

    The Burton at Bideford art gallery and museum

    25 January 2025 to 13 April 2025

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  • Planet Ocean

    Planet Ocean

    The Box, Plymouth

    16 March 2024 to 27 April 2025

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  • Windrush in the Far South West

    Windrush in the Far South West

    The Box, Plymouth

    18 January 2025 to 05 May 2025

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  • John Lyons: Carnivalesque

    John Lyons: Carnivalesque

    The Box, Plymouth

    08 February 2025 to 05 May 2025

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  • Vernon C Boyle: Uncovering an Archive

    Vernon C Boyle: Uncovering an Archive

    The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

    22 March 2025 to 10 May 2025

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  • FOOD: beyond the plate

    FOOD: beyond the plate

    Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery

    22 March 2025 to 29 June 2025

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  • Six Weeks To Go

    Six Weeks To Go

    Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum

    31 March 2025 to 31 October 2025

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  • Kingsbridge 1939   1945 : The Image and the Place

    Kingsbridge 1939 1945 : The Image and the Place

    Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum

    31 March 2025 to 31 October 2025

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