Special Exhibitions & Events

Showcase curated, limited-time experiences and immersive cultural programs that highlight innovative art, emerging artists, and themed museum events.
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Free Exhibitions

Offer open-access art experiences and curated displays that allow visitors to explore inspiring works and cultural themes at no cost.
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Creative Space

Provide innovative environments and resources that inspire creativity, collaboration, and experimentation among artists and visitors.
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Artists

Celebrate the creativity and contributions of artists through exhibitions, workshops, and collaborative projects that engage the community.
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Future Lab

Foster innovation and experimentation by providing cutting-edge technology, research opportunities, and collaborative projects that explore the future of art and culture.
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The Art4D Manifesto

Art for Dimension

A museum built across the four coordinates of human experience —
Time, Emotion, Digital, and Culture.

Time · I
I Time
Tempus

Time

From chipped flint to quantum clocks. Five galleries trace what we have been, and what we have yet to become.

"We live in deep time, only briefly."

Emotion · II
II Emotion
Animus

Emotion

Art that moves the chest before the mind. Rooms of grief, rapture, awe and the immeasurable in-between.

"A painting is a feeling, held still."

Digital · III
III Digital
Codex

Digital

Where algorithms learn to paint and canvases learn to listen. A living lab of generative, immersive and networked art.

"Every pixel is a possibility."

Culture · IV
IV Culture
Mundus

Culture

Living traditions and borrowed myths from every corner of the world — textile, ceremony, cinema, song.

"Every culture is a translation of wonder."

Dimension of Time

Walk the long corridor of human making. Five galleries spanning forty thousand years of marks, tools, and stories — from cave ochre to speculative futures where art is yet to be made.

  • Ancient Civilisations Gallery
  • Medieval Manuscripts Hall
  • Industrial Revolution Exhibit
  • Modernist Century Collection
  • Speculative Futures Room
Enter the Time Dimension

Dimension of Emotion

Art that does not explain itself — only touches you. Chambers curated around the feelings that language cannot quite hold: the sublime, the tender, the wrathful, the still.

  • Romanticism & the Sublime
  • Expressionist Masters
  • Portraits of Grief & Joy
  • Immersive Mood Chambers
  • Sensory Meditation Gallery
Enter the Emotion Dimension

Dimension of Digital

Where code becomes canvas and the viewer becomes co-author. A living laboratory of generative systems, AI collaborations, and XR experiences that rewrite what an exhibit can be.

  • Generative Art Lab
  • AI Co-creation Studio
  • VR / AR / MR Experience Zone
  • Net Art Archive
  • Real-time Data Sculptures
Enter the Digital Dimension

Dimension of Culture

Traditions, myths and living heritage from every corner of the world. Ceremonial textiles and Silk Road ceramics; contemporary cinema and diasporic voices — a room for each way of making meaning.

  • Silk Road Treasures
  • Indigenous Voices Pavilion
  • Global Folk Textiles
  • Sacred Objects & Rituals
  • Contemporary World Cinema
Enter the Culture Dimension
Now on view

Special Exhibitions & Events

Limited-time experiences, art festivals and artist takeovers that turn each season into a different museum entirely.

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Featured

Light Without Shadow: Turner & the Romantics

48 original oils and watercolours, reunited for the first time in a century.

Until 28 September

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Digital

Refik Anadol: Latent Ocean

Machine-learning landscapes trained on 100 years of sea paintings.

12 Jun — 4 Nov

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Festival

Art4D Nuit Blanche

One night. 40 artists. Every gallery unlocked after dark.

14 September · 18:00 → 06:00

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Artist

In Residence: Yuki Tanaka

Three months in the east wing, studio doors open to visitors daily.

Through November

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Oil Painting

Gold & Dust: Six Centuries of the Still Life

Vanitas, bounty and shadow — from Flemish panels to contemporary oil.

Opens 3 August

Always open · always free

Free Exhibitions

Two permanent rooms of world-famous paintings — open to every visitor, every day, at no cost. Art should not be behind a ticket booth.

Room I · Permanent Collection

Timeless Masterworks

6 paintings · Scroll →
Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1503

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer · c. 1665

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli · c. 1485

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1831

The Scream by Edvard Munch

The Scream

Edvard Munch · 1893

Room II · Permanent Collection

Modern Visions

5 paintings · Scroll →
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí

The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí · 1931

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet

Impression, Sunrise

Claude Monet · 1872

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt · 1907–1908

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat · 1884

American Gothic by Grant Wood

American Gothic

Grant Wood · 1930

For visitors & residents

The Creative Space

A museum should feed more than the eye. Four chambers dedicated to the things good art quietly does for a nervous system.

Choose a state of mind. Step in. Each room offers guided silence, directed attention, or unstructured time — with the works, the light, and very few words.

No. 01

Well‑being

Warm palettes, unhurried rooms, tea at the threshold. A gentle circuit designed in collaboration with art therapists.

Enter the Garden
No. 02

Inner Calm

A silent gallery of one painting at a time. Thirty minutes, one bench, no interpretation cards. A practice of looking until something gives.

Enter the Still Room
No. 03

Stress‑free

Sensory-friendly hours with soft light, low sound and a mapped visitor path. For anyone, but especially for those who need it most.

Book a Quiet Hour
No. 04

Passion

The opposite gear. Studios, open-drawing nights, figure sessions, crit circles — a place to make, not only to see.

Join a Studio Night
Voices in the collection

The Artists

From the first hand on a cave wall to the artist-in-residence upstairs right now — a museum is its people.

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1853 — 1890

Vincent van Gogh

Post-Impressionism
Portrait_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci_by_Francesco_Melzi
1452 — 1519

Leonardo da Vinci

High Renaissance
Frida_Kahlo
1907 — 1954

Frida Kahlo

Magical Realism
Hokusai
1760 — 1849

Katsushika Hokusai

Ukiyo-e
Pablo_picasso
1881 — 1973

Pablo Picasso

Cubism
Georgia_O'Keeffe
1887 — 1986

Georgia O'Keeffe

American Modernism
Yayoi_Kusama
1929 — living

Yayoi Kusama

Contemporary
Refik_Anadol
1985 — in residence

Refik Anadol

Digital / Generative