Exhibitions

Millennium Gallery

#PeakNow75: A Large Landscape Model

Marking 75 years of the Peak District, #PeakNow75 is a film asking whether social media can help us care more about nature, landscape change and the Park's future.

Persistence Works

A ‘Shocking’ New Way to Detect Mouth Cancer

Could electricity help detect mouth cancer earlier? Put on a lab coat and test virtual healthy and cancerous mouths using diagnostic devices.

Millennium Gallery

A Resonance of Emerald: The Colours of Birds

Play with colour and see how our aesthetic choices can affect tropical bird trade and the ecosystems birds depend on in this interactive artwork shaped by University of Sheffield research.

Persistence Works

A Toxic Heritage

Explore A Toxic Heritage, a photographic series sharing the experiences of people affected by mesothelioma and the networks of care, support, hope and connection around them.

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Airing Our Dirty Laundry

Can love and intimacy thrive in care homes? Airing Our Dirty Laundry uses ceramic art and real experiences to explore ageing, sexuality, dignity and choice in later life.

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Anatomy at Sheffield: A VR Journey

Step into a VR journey through nearly 200 years of medical education, from Sheffield’s first anatomy lessons in 1828 to today’s 3D technology and the future of medicine.

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Ancient Secrets, Modern Light: The Lycurgus Project

Discover how researchers and glass artist Elliot Walker recreated the Lycurgus Cup’s ancient colour changing glass in a sculpture that shifts from green to red as light moves through it.

Persistence Works

Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes brings art and research together to explore ash dieback, environmental change and the loss of familiar trees from our towns and countryside.

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Be the Bee

See Sheffield through a bee’s eyes in this immersive installation, revealing hidden flower signals, fragmented habitats and how floral corridors can help urban pollinators.

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Birds of Paradise: Colours of the Spectrum

Marvel at giant birds of paradise and discover the science behind their dazzling feathers, with sculptures, family activities and a chance to create your own.

Persistence Works

Calling Barnsley

Step inside a giant phonebox and hear stories from Barnsley, told by local people. Calling Barnsley brings the town to life through audio, with drop in workshops to share your own story.

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Cardio-VR

See what happens inside your heart when you exercise. Cardio VR takes you into a virtual cardiac MRI to explore how scans reveal the heart in action.

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Care is a Future-Oriented Act

See how care shapes our sense of time through Nadia Mehdi’s patchwork jacket. Textiles, quotes and performance explore care as an ongoing act that looks towards the future.

Persistence Works

COVID’s Hidden Scars

Explore the hidden emotional toll of COVID on critical care nurses through an immersive installation of film, photography, textiles and art shaped by six years of research.

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Cracks in the Façade

Cracks in the Façade brings men together through art to explore loneliness, pressure and vulnerability, opening up conversations about mental health and support.

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Furnace to Fusion

From furnaces to fusion, explore Sheffield’s industrial past and low carbon future through film, animation, archive footage and an immersive sound experience.

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Hidden Flow

See the hidden flow inside fusion reactors as artist Maria Marinou brings Lawrence Jones’s research on turbulent liquid metal cooling to life through vivid visual art.

Persistence Works

Kaleidoscope

Create your own colourful butterfly and add it to Kaleidoscope, an interactive exhibit exploring how butterflies get their colours and why conservation matters.

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Layered Presence

Step inside Layered Presence, a sensory installation inspired by Creswell Crags, combining sound, scent and painting to explore how early humans experienced shared space and belonging.

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Liquid Light: A Green Hydrogen Journey

Follow green hydrogen from rain to fuel and back to water in this interactive digital artwork exploring how it could help replace fossil fuels in transport.

Persistence Works

Many Faces, Many Stories

Ceramic heads shaped with people who have lived experience explore the many ways complex emotions can be felt and understood, challenging stigma around complex emotional needs.

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Memory and Identity, Life and Death

Discover how animal bones reveal stories of past lives, human relationships and changing environments through an exhibition bringing zooarchaeology and visual art together.

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Mycelial Mind

Step inside a glowing world of fungi and discover how mycelium could help scientists build new links between the human brain and technology.

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No Photon Left Behind

A lab tour goes wrong when Mark and his friends are shrunk to the size of a photon. Can they learn how quantum light works and escape Dr Luke Brunswick’s experiment?

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Orion: Animating a Stellar Nursery

See how massive stars are born in an immersive audio visual installation inspired by space telescope data and University of Sheffield astrophysics research.

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Poetry in A&E

Hear poet Sarah Lasoye and Sheffield residents share new poetry inspired by research into inequality in A&E, brought together in a moving audio piece.

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Pollen Through Space and Time

Discover pollen as you have never seen it before. Artist Jodie Armand brings its hidden structures and the science of pollination to life through art inspired by University research.

Persistence Works

Processing Dreams

Step into familiar Sheffield places transformed by AI and consider a big question: can we use artificial intelligence creatively without losing the human ideas behind the work?

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Space Glaciers! Deciphering the history of ice ages on Mars

Discover the icy history of Mars through Space Glaciers!, a metal sculpture by Holly Clifford inspired by research using satellite images to reveal how the Red Planet's climate has changed.

Persistence Works

Stories After the Flood

Through photography and creative writing, Stories After the Flood explores farmers’ ties to the land, and how climate change, extreme weather and disease are shaping the future of British food.

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Streets on Screen

Explore migration, memory and belonging through film, photography and performance created with Sheffield’s Hong Kong community, inspired by research into Hong Kong cinema and diasporic culture.

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The Sound of the Crowd

Help create a brand new electronic track using The Black Dog’s music archive. Make your choices, train an AI model and hear how the crowd shapes the final sound.

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The Yearbook of 2040

Step into The Yearbook of 2040, an interactive look at a future shaped by smart technology, social change and shared memories. Is this the future you want to build?

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What Does Care Mean to You? Portraits and reflections on care

What does care mean in everyday life? Explore photographs and personal stories from people who give and receive care, sharing different experiences from across our communities.

Persistence Works

What You (Don’t) See

Look again. This interactive optical artwork explores how technology can enable abuse and coercive control, revealing patterns that may be hidden at first glance.

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Whose Hooves?

What happened to Milky White after Jack traded her away? This interactive exhibit retells folklore through animal eyes and asks us to rethink how humans treat animals.