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Lincoln Museum and Usher Gallery Lincoln Museum is closed for redevelopment. Usher Gallery open Thursday to Monday, 10am to 4pm. Muse Coffee Bar is temporarily closed.
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Like little books about big ideas? 📖Want to understand your community better and contribute to the conversation?Come alo...
15/10/2026

Like little books about big ideas? 📖
Want to understand your community better and contribute to the conversation?

Come along to the Usher Gallery this Saturday for Lincoln Zine Fest 2026. Check out this year's exciting line up of ziners:

GORE
Spectrumony
Life's Big Canvas
Tell'd Zine
GREEBO
Rad Catz
World of Ccrow
SeaTan
AndromedaZines
The Zuri Caves
Sweet Apple Zines
J Clarke Makes
Ratdaughter
Our Victory Line Zines
Robin Thistle Zines

Tag a fellow zine lover below! 👇👇



📆: Saturday 17 October
🕰️: 10am-4pm
📍: Usher Gallery
🎟️: FREE

Bask in the October sun with the god of light and goddess of wilderness ☀🍂Alan Kane responded to our neoclassical statue...
13/10/2026

Bask in the October sun with the god of light and goddess of wilderness ☀🍂

Alan Kane responded to our neoclassical statue collection in 2014 by reconceptualising garden statues within a fine art space, challenging traditional hierarchies of the art world. Kane often features found and readymade elements in his sculptures to playfully celebrate the everyday.

Artemis and Apollo are at home watching over our Lincolnshire gallery terrace as deities of the pastoral, healing, and protection of young children.

Artemis governs hunting, nature, wild animals, herds, flocks, and crops, with her shrines often located in wetlands (like Lincolnshire once was!) Apollo is patron of the sun, music, songs, dance, prophecy and poetry.


Alan Kane (2014) Home-works 1 and Home-works 2. Garden sculptures, bricks, mortar, steel and household paint.

Do you have a favourite ancient myth?

Let us know in the comments! 👇👇

Need more colour in your life? 🎨Need space to express yourself? 🌧Why not spend a rainy day getting creative in the Usher...
09/10/2026

Need more colour in your life? 🎨
Need space to express yourself? 🌧

Why not spend a rainy day getting creative in the Usher Gallery Learning Room?

We have a wealth of art materials for you to work with, including stickers, coloured card, pastels, feathers, crayons, pipe cleaners, and lots of sparkly things.

All you need to add is your imagination. If you need inspiration why not spend some time enjoying our beautiful displays.

Thursday to Monday, 10am – 4pm

Always free.

Everyone is snapping up our latest exhibition! 📸The Lincoln Camera Club brings a fresh lens to the local community, depi...
06/10/2026

Everyone is snapping up our latest exhibition! 📸

The Lincoln Camera Club brings a fresh lens to the local community, depicting the wonderful (and weird!) of the everyday. This year they feature steam punks, sugar beets, sluice gates, spitfires, sheep shearing, cycling, sausages and even a bit of chiropody. 🫜🐑

Immerse yourself in a century old tradition – the club hosted their first exhibition at the Usher Gallery when we opened in 1927!

After your visit comment share your favourite photo below 👇👇

Long week ahead?Inhale deeply and nurture yourself this evening with Yoga Hatha flow at the Usher Gallery.The 60-minute ...
05/10/2026

Long week ahead?

Inhale deeply and nurture yourself this evening with Yoga Hatha flow at the Usher Gallery.

The 60-minute session uses movement, meditation and breathing practice to heal the body and mind. All experience levels are welcome. You are invited to move and breathe however is comfortable, in unity with your own rhythm.

Classes every Monday, 6:15pm-7:15pm (excluding bank holidays)

Book here: https://www.lincolnmuseum.com/exhibitions-and-events/view/yoga-at-lincoln-museum

Diving into the week with this surreal stoneware sculpture submerged in our stores 🦞Pamela Mei-Yee Leung (1962). Lobster...
28/09/2026

Diving into the week with this surreal stoneware sculpture submerged in our stores 🦞
Pamela Mei-Yee Leung (1962). Lobster Diver. Hand built stoneware and coloured glazes, 1991. was created on residency at the Usher Gallery. The whimsical half-lobster, half-human is complete with claws and feet! 👣

Each Leung creature expresses a secret moral message and is inspired by traditional Chinese art and mythology 🧧

A year later Leung created a similar work called Lobster in Chair, of which she stated: “The dragon is the king among sea creatures but, to use the analogy of chess, the lobster may be thought of as a bishop. I have tried to portray this figure as a powerful but thoughtful creature, wise and possibly shrewd.”

What do you think Lobster Diver is trying to say?
Comment below! 👇👇

Like little books about big ideas?Want to understand your community better and contribute to the conversation?Come and j...
27/09/2026

Like little books about big ideas?
Want to understand your community better and contribute to the conversation?

Come and join us for Lincoln’s Annual Zine Fest, ‘a celebration of the DIY community in Lincolnshire and beyond. We're back and ready to celebrate 10 years of Lincoln Zine Fest! Zinesters from Lincolnshire and further afield will be selling their goods and spreading the word about zines. What is a zine? A zine (pronounced "zeen") is a small, self-published, and typically non-commercial booklet or magazine focused on specialised or unconventional topics.' - Lincoln Zine Fest

📆: Saturday 17 October
🕰️: 10am-4pm
📍: Usher Gallery
🎟️: FREE

23/09/2026

🔧 Essential improvements coming to Gallery 2 at the Usher Gallery

From 28 September, Gallery 2 will temporarily close while we carry out essential improvement works to the space.

Before then, there's still time to visit one of the gallery's most popular displays, featuring The Papestry, works by L.S. Lowry, and a range of highlights from Lincolnshire's art collections.

While Gallery 2 is closed, the rest of the Usher Gallery will remain open wherever possible. We're looking forward to welcoming visitors back to an improved Gallery 2 in January 2027.

Thank you for your patience and support while these important works are carried out.

Feel the chill in the air and the thrill of Halloween on the horizon?Unleash your inner weird at our ‘Ink Blot Monsters’...
18/09/2026

Feel the chill in the air and the thrill of Halloween on the horizon?

Unleash your inner weird at our ‘Ink Blot Monsters’ workshop in the Usher Learning Room! Get crafty and watch your children invent their own monster creations.
This free, family-friendly art class is an exciting lead-up to our spooktacular Trick or Treat! Halloween event on the 31 October at the Usher Gallery.

📅: Monday 26 October 2026
🕰: Drop-in between 1pm-3:30pm
📍: Usher Gallery
🎫: FREE

Have you ever held a tome in your hands and wondered at its quality and craftsmanship? Have you ever thought “how is thi...
12/09/2026

Have you ever held a tome in your hands and wondered at its quality and craftsmanship? Have you ever thought “how is this made”? 🛠📖

Come and drop-in to the Usher Gallery for l! Book Professional Caroline Bain is teaching free bookbinding sessions in our workshop, sharing her expertise on traditional and contemporary techniques.

In this beginner-friendly session you’ll bind your very own book to take home with you.

📅Saturday 3 October 2026
🕰: Drop in between 10am to 3:30pm
📍Usher Gallery
🎫: FREE

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Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
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