Site Gallery
SETTING
Indoors
WHERE
Sheffield
What it’s like
A contemporary art gallery with drop-in workshops, a café, and a family silent disco with headphones and bubbles.
This is a proper gallery, not a soft play, so what you're getting is exhibitions and contemporary art displays alongside drop-in creative workshops. The standout for kids, though, is the Family Silent Disco: headphones, four themed playlists, giant beanbags, coloured lighting, scarves, bubbles and percussion instruments. That's the bit worth saving for last if you're doing a wander round the exhibitions first.
If your child finds galleries a bit much on the ears or eyes, there's a Relaxed Viewing Hour every Thursday 11 to 12, with brighter lighting and quieter sound. Tuesdays 11 to 12 is a Masked Visiting Hour for immunocompromised visitors. Outside those, they reckon 4 to 5pm is generally the quietest stretch of the day.
Kollective Kitchen, the café on site, opens earlier than the gallery itself, from 9am, so you could grab breakfast before the exhibitions open at 11. The gallery runs 11 to 5 Tuesday to Saturday and 11 to 4 on Sundays, and it's a lift job to get up to the office spaces and Studio II if you're pushing a buggy or using a wheelchair.
It's a three minute walk from Sheffield train station, and there's street parking on Brown Street at around £1.50 an hour if you're driving, plus four free disabled bays outside Showroom Workstation. There's no booking link listed.
Facilities
Need to know
- Parking
- Street parking on Brown Street and nearby costs around £1.50/hour
- Wheelchairs
- Wheelchair accessible. Exhibitions carefully designed to accommodate mobility aids
- Dogs
- Service, assistant and emotional support animals welcome in all areas
- Getting there by bus or train
- Approximately 3 minutes walk from Sheffield train station
- Tuesdays 11 to 12 is a Masked Visiting Hour for immunocompromised visitors
- Gallery hours differ slightly from café hours, so check which one you're aiming for
- There's a gift shop on site if you want a souvenir
- Buses stop on Paternoster Row and Brown Street right outside
Plan your visit
What do kids actually do here?
There are exhibitions and contemporary art displays to look at, plus drop-in creative workshops. The Family Silent Disco is the other big draw, with headphones, beanbags, coloured lighting, bubbles and percussion instruments.
What time is best to avoid the crowds?
4pm to 5pm is generally the quietest time of day. There's also a Relaxed Viewing Hour every Thursday 11 to 12 with brighter lighting and quieter sound.
Do we need to book?
There's no booking link given, so it looks like you can just turn up.
What about food?
Kollective Kitchen is the café on site and opens earlier than the gallery, from 9am on weekdays and Saturdays, 9am on Sundays too.
Is it wheelchair and buggy friendly?
Yes, it's wheelchair accessible with accessible toilets and baby changing on the ground floor, and there's a lift to the upper floors and Studio II.
Can we bring the dog?
Service, assistant and emotional support animals are welcome throughout, as long as they're under your control.
Where can we park?
Street parking on Brown Street is around £1.50 an hour, and there are four free disabled bays outside Showroom Workstation. It's also just three minutes from Sheffield train station if you fancy leaving the car at home.
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