Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
Care is a Future-Oriented Act is a compelling installation centered around an intricate, patchwork jacket created by artist Nadia Mehdi. To emphasise that “care takes time,” the garment incorporates a rich tapestry of textiles, quotes and iconography. Drawing directly from Ames Clark’s research, the piece demonstrates how care reshapes our sense of time through slow, layered creation and collective voices. Through an immersive, durational performance, the installation highlights care not as a static moment, but as an ongoing, future-facing act.
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
From the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the frontier of fusion energy – discover the region’s incredible transformation. Anchored by Samuel Forbes-Fairfax’s research, supervised by Dr Emma Heywood, this century-spanning film combines animation, archival footage and rich storytelling to connect our industrial past with a low-carbon future. Don’t just watch though: step up to our immersive display and listen to Sheffield as the beating heart of past, present and future innovation. Furnace to Fusion is a collaborative project by the University of Sheffield, UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Human Studio.
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
Green Hydrogen: A Journey is an interactive digital art exhibit by digital artist and creative technologist Daniel Bachus exploring the life cycle of green hydrogen. Drawing from the scientific research of Professor Rachel Rothman, Dr Alex Newman and Dr Jonathan Wellings, the exhibit shows how H2 can replace fossil fuels in transportation, starting with rain and returning to the water cycle.
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
From Leonardo da Vinci’s intricate water studies to the swirling skies of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, the chaotic beauty of turbulence has long inspired the art world. Hidden Flow continues this legacy by pairing fine artist Maria Marinou with the cutting-edge research of Lawrence Jones. Together they offer a striking visual interpretation of the chaotic liquid metal cooling systems inside nuclear fusion reactors, transforming highly complex engineering into a vivid exploration of fluid dynamics.
Podcast
Want to find out more? A special podcast exploring the research and ideas behind this exhibit is coming soon. Check back here to listen.
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
Produced by Painted Mirror Films, this short film takes audiences on a high-stakes journey through twisting waveguides and eerie cavities. When a lab tour goes spectacularly wrong, Mark and his friends find themselves shrunk to the size of a single photon and trapped inside Dr Luke Brunswick’s quantum experiment. Will the group learn enough about photonic integrated circuits and quantum light to escape, or will they remain trapped in the microcosm forever?
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
Witness the birth of stars in Orion: Animating a Stellar Nursery, an immersive audio-visual installation by Sarah Jane Palmer and composer Marcus Campbell. Inspired by Hubble and James Webb space telescope data, the piece visualises the pioneering astrophysics research of Professor Paul Crowther, showing how massive stars shape the cosmic nurseries where future worlds are born.
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Peak District National Park, #PeakNow75 is a film by Paul Evans and Jon Harrison that explores whether social media can foster genuine empathy for our natural world and landscape recovery. Based on Professor Bob Johnston’s research on the impact of landscape change on cultural heritage, the piece weaves together images and voices that evoke the environmental connections forged both online and during real-world visits to the Park’s landmarks.
Podcast
During the production of #PeakNow artists Tim Rose and Greta Vilidaite were filmed on location as they made paintings ‘En plein air’ in the Peak District landscape. During this shoot the artists were mic’d up and their conversation recorded.
This conversation creates a wonderful picture in the mind of the listener, both of the landscape as it is recreated in paint and of the thought processes behind this traditional mode of representation. This picture contrasts beautifully with the technological modes of capturing views through the lenses of mobile phones, and the ways in which these are shared through contemporary social media, as explored in the film.
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
Tracing its origins back to 1828, the University of Sheffield’s medical school comes alive in a VR journey produced by Human Studio. Using 3D modeling and archival imagery, you’ll track the evolution of anatomy education from its humble beginnings to today’s high-tech classrooms. Led by Andrew Metcalfe and featuring the groundbreaking research of Professor Christine Le Maitre, this is an immersive look at the past, present and future of medicine.
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
Step into a 1,600-year-old mystery and discover the secrets of the Lycurgus Cup – a world-renowned 4th-century Roman cage cup made from dichroic glass that shifts from jade green in reflected light to ruby red in transmitted light. Dr Lisa Hollands and Professor Russell Hand from the School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering reverse engineered this ancient glass recipe and have partnered with glass sculptor, and Blown Away winner, Elliot Walker to create a contemporary sculpture that recreates this famous dichroic effect. See the specially engineered glass transform before your eyes as the light moves around the sculpture.
Short Film
Want to find out more? A special short film exploring the research and journey behind this exhibit is coming soon. Check back here to watch.
Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP
About the exhibit
A Resonance of Emerald is a playable artwork created by artist Paul Evans based on the research of Shriya Uday and Rob MacDonald into how human aesthetic colour choices affect the nature of trade in tropical birds and, in turn, impacts on the ecosystems on which they depend. This interactive installation involves the audience in the co-creation of a colourful, emotionally engaging picture of human impact.
