Millennium Gallery

Nice gallery in Sheffield city centre, just off of the Winter Gardens. When you enter, you are first greeted with their extensive giftshop, filled with local goods. They have 3 main halls for exhibits — the permanent metalwork exhibit was the star for us. Very interesting to learn a bit about Sheffield’s history, and there are a lot of pieces to look at.
The gallery is not huge, I think we spent between 45 minutes and an hour there, but it’s location means it’s not exactly out of the way and it’s free, so I would still recommend you pop in. It’s also surrounded by a few nice restaurants and independent cafes, so I imagine it would be quite nice to visit around lunchtime.

Pleasant gallery/​museum to kill an hour when in Sheffield. A five minute walk from Sheffield station.
This is a modern building that houses various small exhibitions, not to be confused with the Graves Gallery, the city’s art gallery, which is located close-​by.
The Millennium Gallery focuses on some visiting/​special exhibits as well as on a few permanent exhibitions, like the «John Ruskin Collection» — a 19^th century selection of various crafts and natural history objects, with a few watercolors and paintings thrown in for good measure, that the philosopher John Ruskin collected to create a small museum for the working class of the time, most of them being kept ignorant of history and the arts by the ruling classes. While none of those objects are in any way spectacular, one can well imagine that they must have delighted and astounded their target audience at the time.
Then, there’s an permanent exhibit on Sheffield’s history as a centre of metal and silver manufacturing in the late 18^th and 19^th centuries. This is actually the most impressive part of this gallery (see photos).
Photography is allowed in these permanent exhibitions.
The venue is free of charge, and it’s bright, modern and friendly, with a long garden gallery that you can sit in and relax from the bustle of the city. There’s also a café on the ground floor, as well as a small museum shop on the first.

I cannot see much point in the Millennium Galleries having being built apart from being an arcade leading from one Sheffield Street to another.
The arcade is brightly decorated and has small gift stalls scattered along it. To reach the arcade you have to travel via escalator from the ground floor up to the first floor.
Leading off the arcade there is conference rooms where wealthy Sheffield merchants like to boast about their wares and there’s also a small museum showing off priceless items belonging to Sheffield’s famous Cutlery Industry.
On the ground floor there’s a expensive eating establishment, it’s so expensive hardly anyone uses it.

This is connected to the Winter Gardens and you can walk straight through to the galleries. Recently held the Vivian Westwood collection which attracted a few famous celebs. Has plenty of free exhibitions as well.

The Milennium Galleries hosts a series of small galleries with small seperate exhibitions.
There are two permanant exhibitions — one about metalwork, which is great for visitors to the city as it offers a brief but informative glimpse at the importance that steel and metalwork have had on the city in the past. There is also a focus on the future of metalwork in Sheffield with some commisioned pieces.
The other permanant gallery is one which houses various collections of Ruskin. This includes paintings, rocks and sculpture.
There are two spaces for changing exhibitions and in the past these have included both local artwork and projects and national exhibitions like the Vivienne Westwood show earlier this year.
The Millennium Galleries isn’t designed like most traditional museums or galleries are, instead it acts as a shortcut through part of the city centre, and shoppers, workers and tourists can stroll through the open planned nature of the gallery into the centre of town.
Other facilities in the gallery are a café, a small gift shop area and various interactive sculptures.
I highly recommend the Millennium Galleries, especially for visitors to Sheffield as it acts as a great and interesting shortcut from the station to the shopping areas of town!

its linked with the winter gardens. so after u have seen some beautiful art work u can walk through to look at plants.
good place to check out art work if u have a interest or hobbie in the topic area.

How can you fault something that’s free? This is a great place to visit, and the exhibition seems to change every time I go! There is a pay exhibition on too often, though I’ve never been to one they do look good. The free exhibition though is nothing to be faulted, it’s very well put together. There is a gift shop too, and is right next to the Winter Gardens too so is in a nice location.

Itt is lovely waliking round here looking at the various artwork from the modern to traditional. Went to see the Viven Westwood collection which was fantastic. Admission is free which is great but they do have certain exhibitions which are for a fee but still good value and worth a look.

I love it in here! its free to go in so its good to have a browse whilst your in sheffield! there are a mixture of different things inside. like vintage and modern.
its the first time ive been last week, even though ive been in sheffield all my life! and its great!