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Open House Festival | Sunday 13 September 2026

Sunday 13 September 2026 | 11am – 5pm | Free/Drop-in As part of Open House Festival 2026, Dorich House Museum will be open for an extra day on Sunday 13 September. As always, the museum is free to visit for all and no booking is required. The opening times remain as 11am – 5pm for […]

Still Life Drawing Workshop with Anna Milgrom | 26 September 2026

Saturday 26 September 2026 | 14:00 – 16:00 | BOOK HERE Anna Milgrom returns to Dorich House Museum following her previous popular workshops for a new class focusing on still life. In this workshop, Anna will teach you the basic skills required to draw inanimate objects and create interesting compositions of objects together. These workshops […]

Call for New Museum & Gallery Advisory Group Members

Stanley Picker Gallery and Dorich House Museum are seeking three new members to join their Advisory Group in December 2026 – one member of Kingston University staff and two external members.  These appointments will be for an initial 4-year term, in time to help support and celebrate the 30th anniversary of Stanley Picker Gallery in […]

Mapping Change: Menopause as Lived Experience | Workshops

Thursday 25 June, Thursday 23 July & Friday 24 July 2026 | 9:30am – 11am | Free/Booking Required To accompany her current exhibition, Dr Francesca Arrigoni-Halliday will be leading three guided artistic workshops exploring the menopause as a whole-body transition rather than a set of isolated symptoms. Participants will be led through the process of […]

Nice to know you, Dora: A talk by Tim Harrison | 1 July 2026

Wednesday 1 July 2026 | 6:30pm – 8pm | Book here As a local newspaper reporter for the Surrey Comet, Tim Harrison met and interviewed Dora Gordine in 1988 following the burglary of Dorich House which saw items from the Russian collection stolen. Following that interview, Tim continued to visit Dora every week for the […]

Summer Garden Party 2026 | Saturday 27 June | 1-5pm

Summer Garden Party | Free | All Welcome | 1-5pm Please join us at Dorich House Museum on Saturday 27 June for our annual Summer Garden Party. Bring your friends, enjoy a complimentary glass of prosecco and relax in our walled orchard garden while listening to live music performed by Kingston University Performing Arts students throughout […]

Call for Museum & Gallery Assistants 2026/27

Dorich House Museum & Stanley Picker Gallery: Museum & Gallery Assistant Programme Paid Opportunity for Kingston University Students Deadline for applications: Friday 12 June 2026 12pm Dorich House Museum and our Kingston University partner venue Stanley Picker Gallery are recruiting new Museum & Gallery Assistants for the 2026/27 academic year. Our Museum & Gallery Assistants play a […]

Undiminished | F. Arrigoni-Halliday | 4 June – 25 July 2026

Undiminished: Rebalancing the female narrative of menopause Thursday 4 June – Saturday 25 July 2026 | Free/Drop-in Dr Francesca Arrigoni-Halliday is an Associate Professor in Physiology and Pharmacology at Kingston University. Having recently completed the MA Illustration at Kingston School of Art, she has been able to test how visual methods, when used well, can sharpen […]

Kingston Artists Open Studios 2026 | 07 – 16 May 2026

Thursday 07 – Saturday 16 May 2026 | Free | Drop-in For this year’s Kingston Artists Open Studios festival, artist Anna Bingham will be displaying her work in the Dorich House Museum modelling studio. Anna has been exhibiting as an artist for over 10 years, including at Dorich House Museum in 2024, with her practice […]

REMET Art Prize 2026 | 30 April – 27 June 2026

30 April – 27 June 2026 | Free | Drop-in Dorich House Museum is excited to be exhibiting the REMET Art Prize finalists’ work for the third year in a row. Between Thursday 30 April and Saturday 27 June 2026 the work of all seven finalists will be on display across the second-floor apartment of […]

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