Manchester Gallery, Manchester Museum
Opens 4 April
This new gallery draws links between the people of Manchester, the city's history and the museum's collection. The space throws the spotlight on communities within the metropolis and key museum patrons from all classes.
New gallery, Natural History Museum, Colchester
Opens 7 April
The gallery explores geology and climate change. Visitors will be able to hear first-hand accounts of the Great Storm of 1987, read tips on how to be environmentally friendly and learn how climate change is now man-made, rather than natural.
Sh(OUT): Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
9 April - 1 November
This year, the biennial exhibition on social justice focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Artists represented include Nan Goldin, David Hockney, Catherine Opie and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Indian Strings and Dances, Museum of Croydon
10 April - 31 July
How have musicians and dancers from southern Asia influenced the UK's cultural scene over the past 400 years? This exhibition explores the history of travel, migration and cultural exchange through video performances and musical instrument displays. A programme of events includes a Manipuri dance workshop on 11 April.
The Photographic Object, Photographers' Gallery, London
24 April - 14 June
The exhibition examines photography as an object in its own right by concentrating on the physical and tactile qualities of images. German artist Gerhard Richter paints over pictures taken from family albums, while Italian Maurizio Anzeri stitches coloured thread on to discarded family portraits.
Stanley Spencer and the River Thames, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham
29 April - 1 November
Tate Britain is loaning four works by Spencer relating to the Thames running through the artist's home village. These include Turk's Boatyard Cookham and Swan upping at Cookham. The show marks the 50th anniversary of Spencer's death.
Robert HN Ho Family, Foundation Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Opens 29 April
More than 50 works from between AD200 and 1850 go on show at the first gallery for Buddhist sculpture in the UK. The display, which is arranged according to geographic groupings, charts the spread of the religion. An early image of the meditating Buddha, from about AD300, from north-west India is on view for the first time.
Opens 4 April
This new gallery draws links between the people of Manchester, the city's history and the museum's collection. The space throws the spotlight on communities within the metropolis and key museum patrons from all classes.
New gallery, Natural History Museum, Colchester
Opens 7 April
The gallery explores geology and climate change. Visitors will be able to hear first-hand accounts of the Great Storm of 1987, read tips on how to be environmentally friendly and learn how climate change is now man-made, rather than natural.
Sh(OUT): Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
9 April - 1 November
This year, the biennial exhibition on social justice focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Artists represented include Nan Goldin, David Hockney, Catherine Opie and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Indian Strings and Dances, Museum of Croydon
10 April - 31 July
How have musicians and dancers from southern Asia influenced the UK's cultural scene over the past 400 years? This exhibition explores the history of travel, migration and cultural exchange through video performances and musical instrument displays. A programme of events includes a Manipuri dance workshop on 11 April.
The Photographic Object, Photographers' Gallery, London
24 April - 14 June
The exhibition examines photography as an object in its own right by concentrating on the physical and tactile qualities of images. German artist Gerhard Richter paints over pictures taken from family albums, while Italian Maurizio Anzeri stitches coloured thread on to discarded family portraits.
Stanley Spencer and the River Thames, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham
29 April - 1 November
Tate Britain is loaning four works by Spencer relating to the Thames running through the artist's home village. These include Turk's Boatyard Cookham and Swan upping at Cookham. The show marks the 50th anniversary of Spencer's death.
Robert HN Ho Family, Foundation Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Opens 29 April
More than 50 works from between AD200 and 1850 go on show at the first gallery for Buddhist sculpture in the UK. The display, which is arranged according to geographic groupings, charts the spread of the religion. An early image of the meditating Buddha, from about AD300, from north-west India is on view for the first time.
