View of an Ideal Homes Exhibition at the former Perth City Hall, March 1953.

📷 #PerthArtGallery . McLaren Photographic Collection Ref: McLaren11133

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One of our most popular paintings, Prometheus, is currently undergoing restoration by specialist art conservators Egan, Matthews & Rose. The much-needed work is being funded by the Woodmansterne Art Conservation Award for 2024. Prometheus will be back on display later this year.

A street view of Pullars dye works on Perth's Kinnoull Street, decorated for a Royal visit in 1914.

📷 #PerthArtGallery . Ref: 1981.820.90

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Perth Art Gallery’s Youth Collective are reaching out to local businesses to help support an upcoming exhibition.

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If you're looking for something to do this weekend while enjoying the Perth Festival Scot why not visit Perth Art Gallery? From Fergus & Meg to Hands On Art and Modern Scots, you can pop in and enjoy some fantastic art, and it's free to visit! Open from 10am on Saturday and Sunday. 🤩

Guess the painting (and yes, it is currently on display in #PerthArtGallery ). 👀

#ArTay is one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary Scottish art in the country. This unmissable pop-up art gallery is hosted in a large marquee beside #PerthArtGallery and displays the work of over 90 artists.

🗓️ Thu 22 May - Sun 26 May
🎟️ Free entry

Perth Festival Scot

For anyone planning to visit the new Perth Museum do check out Perth Art Gallery 2 mins walk away and also free where the stunning JD Fergusson and Margaret Morris collection has been newly displayed 😍

A view of W.Brydson in St John's Street Perth from c.1953.

📷 #PerthArtGallery . Ref: McLaren11127

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It's, oh, so quiet...

Glasgow Road, Perth, c.1932.

📸 Molly Forgan Collection, #PerthArtGallery . Ref: 1994.2410.6

Countless local dance events, school concerts, music competitions, and ceilidhs have taken place through the years. This photograph shows a Rotary Club ceilidh from 1948. Did you ever attend a dance or ceilidh at Perth City Hall?

📸 Flood/Cowper Collection, #PerthArtGallery

Pleasant afternoon wander round Perth Art Gallery

Join Barbara Drake Bohem, from the Met Cloisters, at an exclusive event at @perthmuseumuk to explore the myths and science behind the Unicorn. The event includes after-hours access to their debut exhibition, Unicorn.

Tickets available here buff.ly/4ap38fY

A view of the first City Hall in Perth decorated with banners to welcome Winston Churchill in September 1901, as he delivered a lecture entitled 'The War as I saw it' to a 'large and fashionable audience'.

📸 Burrows Brothers, #PerthArtGallery Ref: MJ1200

Just around the corner from us... in 1935. The Balmoral Bar on Castlegable, Perth, looking from the North Port.

📸 Molly Forgan Collection, #PerthArtGallery . Ref MJ3603

It’s not just dances, concerts & wrestling that have entertained us at Perth City Hall, who knew that #Weetabix has been around for so long? This photo shows visitors trying Weetabix samples at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in May 1949.

📸 Flood/Cowper Collection, #PerthArtGallery

I also paid a visit to Perth Art Gallery, home to the best museum toilets! The new permanent gallery celebrating Fergusson and Morris is a lesson in how to display Scottish Colourists 🎨 It's a must see if you're visiting the new Perth Museum.

A view from the South Street Port of John Moir's Public House on South Methven Street and South Street, Perth, c.1899-1902.

📷 #PerthArtGallery Ref: MJ1149

.Art UK's theme for today's #OnlineArtExchange is Cornwall & Cornish art for Penlee House Gallery & Museum’s The Exceptional Harold Harvey exhibition. Our choice is full of summer vibes: The Cornish Riviera (Great Western Railway poster artwork) by Louis Burleigh Bruhl from National Railway Museum.