Dorich House Museum

Re-opening 5 September

Thursday – Saturday 11am – 5pm | Free

We look forward to opening our doors after our summer break and as usual will have our cafe filled with cakes and great coffee and our wonderful house and collections ready for you to enjoy.

Guided tours will be running on the 13 September at 11:30am, 20 September at 2pm and 27 September at 11:30am. Tickets are limited and cost £5 per person – Book Here.

Open House

14 – 22 September | Free

We are delighted to be taking part in London’s Open House Festival this year, which runs from 14 – 22 September. During the festival we will be extending our usual open days to include Sunday 15 and Sunday 22 September.

Open House Festival is a London-wide festival that opens up and celebrates the city’s architecture, special sites and neighbourhoods, with open days and events taking place across all 33 London Boroughs.

Also taking part in Open Houser this year – and within walking distance of Dorich House – is The Picker House, an untouched time capsule of late 1960s colour, innovation and design by architect Kenneth Wood with interiors by Conran Contracts and Conran Design Group. The Picker House is owned and managed by the Stanley Picker Trust. You must pre-book to join one of the guided tours of the house, gardens and gallery.

Heritage Open Days

6 – 15 September | Free

Dorich House Museum will be open for free drop-in visits during Heritage Open Days, including an additional open day on Sunday 15 September.

In response to the 2024 Heritage Open Day theme of Routes-Networks-Connections, Dorich House Museum’s curator Fiona Fisher will be offering free guided tours of Dorich House exploring Dora Gordine’s fascinating life which took her from Latvia to Estonia, Paris, Singapore and Kingston!

Curator led tours will run on Friday 6 September at 2pm and Thursday 12 September at 2pm. Pre-booking is essential via Eventbrite.

Honey Birch | Queering Dorich House

November 2024 – March 2025 | Free

We are pleased to announce that Dorich House Museum has received a Diversity Matters programme grant from London Museum Development at the Museum of London through their ACE-funded scheme.

Led by emerging creative practitioner Honey Birch, our project our project will take the form of a queering of Dorich House, using the house’s history to think through queerness – What does it mean to think queerly? / What does it mean to queer a space? / How might we queer the public realm or envisage or imagine queer alternative spaces? –  and will inform a series of interventions into the spaces of Dorich House from November 2024 to March 2025.

Honey Birch is a multimedia storyteller. With an interest in the blurred borders between imagined lives and reality, their work spans curation, 3D design, moving image, poetry, and creative facilitation. Often exploring their own intersectional identity as a British, queer, Chinese adoptee. They were recently commissioned by the Roundhouse as part of their 2024 Film Fund to create ‘If This Were Purgatory’, a short film docufiction focusing on queer club queues as a liminal space.   

Saturday Art Club at Dorich House

16 November | Free (Booking Essential)

The Stanley Picker Gallert will be hosting free Saturday Art Club sessions at Dorich House this autumn. The sessions are for children and young people enthusiastic about art and design and will be led by a team of Kingston School of Art students and alumni.

Young artists will delve in to the house and collections in fun and engaging ways – combining interactive games, making, drawing and discussion – as they explore the practice and processes of contemporary artists and learn new techniques. Parents are encouraged to drop their children off and return at the end of the session. All materials are included. For further information, please contact Natalie Kay n.kay@kingston.ac.uk

Stanley Picker Gallery

Under Construction | Free

Launch Events

Brunch launch event as part of the London Design Festival: Saturday 14 September 11am – 1pm.

Evening launch event with drinks: Wednesday 19 September, 6-8pm

Exhibition Onsite at Stanley Picker Gallery

14 September – 20 December 2024

‘Under Construction’ looks at more than a decade of ambitious live-build projects led by architect Takeshi Hayatsu and local collaboarator. ‘Under Construction’ will present visual and tactile materials on these diverse projects together with a specially commissioned film by w. in. c films.  As a key part of ‘Under Construction’, an entirely new live build will take the Stanley Picker Gallery’s unusual island location as the site and subject for a series of evolving architectural interventions both inside and out, that will aim to shift and alter how the building itself behaves as a public gallery and ‘expanded studio’ and how visitors in turn respond and interact.

For more information click here – Under Construction | Stanley Picker Gallery  by Takeshi Hayatsu & Collaborators.