About our museum

A hall built for art lovers

Since 2004, Quillon Hall Museum has gathered paintings, sculpture, and cultural treasures under one roof — and opened its doors wide to the city around it.

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Sunlit gallery wall of framed landscape paintings

Neoclassical columns and candelabra in the dome hall

Our story

From a private bequest to a public treasure

Quillon Hall began with a bequest of forty paintings and a belief: great art should be part of everyday life. Twenty years later our halls hold more than five hundred works, from Roman marble to contemporary photography.

Every gallery is arranged to slow visitors down — benches in every room, labels written in plain language, and curators who would rather talk with you than at you.

Browse Collections

William Foster

Chief Curator & Author

What guides us

Three promises in every gallery

Preserve with rigour

Climate-controlled halls, documented provenance, and a conservation studio that treats a 2,000-year-old bust and a 2-year-old print with equal respect.

Welcome everyone

Free entry for under-18s, step-free routes throughout, guided tours in five languages, and quiet hours every first Sunday of the month.

Keep art alive

Rotating exhibitions, living artists in residence, school workshops, and late openings that let the collection meet the city after dark.

Milestones

Twenty years of open doors

2004
The hall opens
Forty bequeathed paintings go on view in the restored Quillon Hall.
2011
Sculpture wing added
Roman and neoclassical marble arrives, doubling the collection.
2018
Heritage galleries open
Ancient civilisations find a permanent home on the lower floor.
2025
One million visitors
Our busiest year yet — and free under-18 entry becomes permanent.