Event Category: Tours

  • BSL Artist Led Tour | To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Bokaye Curates

    BSL Artist Led Tour | To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Bokaye Curates

    Join Deaf artist, choreographer and BSL tour guide Chisato Minamimura for an in-depth exploration of our current exhibition To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates. Chisato describes her tours as “helping audiences look more deeply into all aspects of an exhibition, from learning about the artists shown to understanding curatorial decisions made.”

    Curated by acclaimed figurative painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, this exhibition brings together a diverse group of international artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, film, and drawing from the 19th century to the present day. 

    This event will be delivered in British Sign Language (BSL), and is only suitable for D/deaf visitors and users of BSL.

    “Inspiring, friendly and educational” (Tour participant)

    Taking place:
    Saturday 17 January 2026 | 11am

  • Conversational Tour – To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates

    Conversational Tour – To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates

    Discuss the context behind the works in our current exhibition To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates. Facilitated by our brilliant volunteers, these tours take you on a deeper dive into the work on show.

    Free with your exhibition ticket, booking advised.

    Taking Place
    [Starting 11th November] Tuesdays | 11am
    Sunday 7 December and 11 January | 11am

  • General Tour – To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates

    General Tour – To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates

    Led by our brilliant volunteers, these tours take you on a deeper dive into To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates. Shining a light on the context behind the works and some of the finer details about their production.

    Free with your exhibition ticket, booking advised.

    Taking place 
    [Starting 11th November] Tuesdays and Saturdays | 2pm.

  • Audio Described Tour – Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look

    Audio Described Tour – Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look

    Join artist and tour guide Robin Clements to explore Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look. With in-depth descriptions and hand-held touch elements, Robin will guide visitors through a unique selection of key artworks. This event is designed for those who are blind or partially sighted, and their companions.

    Please contact Rosie on rmay@localhost with any questions ahead of your visit.

    Taking Place
    Tuesday 30 September, 10.30am

  • Toddle Tour – Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look

    Toddle Tour – Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look

    This summer join one of our award-winning Toddle Tours as we explore the photography of Paz Errázuriz, and the unique MK Gallery architecture.

    Artist Julia Collar will take you and your little ones on an exciting sensory filled journey, with different elements of touch, sound, movement and play. Please come prepared for both indoor and outdoor weather!

    This event is designed specifically for children aged 0-5yrs and their families.

    Taking Place
    August 30 | 10am
    September 27 | 10am

     

    About the exhibition
    This first solo UK exhibition of Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz (b. 1944) presents over 170 works in colour and black and white from the 1970s to the present day. Often working in series, her photographs include men and women in psychiatric institutions, Trans communities, sex workers, homeless people and the Kawésqar, an indigenous community under threat.

  • Conversational Tour – Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look

    Conversational Tour – Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look

    Discuss the context behind the works in our current exhibition Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look. Facilitated by our brilliant volunteers, these tours take you on a deeper dive into the photographs on show.

    Free with your exhibition ticket, booking advised.

    Taking Place

    Tuesday 5 August | 11am
    Sunday 10 August | 11am
    Tuesday 12 August | 11am
    Tuesday 19 August |11am
    Tuesday 26 August | 11am

    Tuesday 2 September | 11am
    Sunday 7 September | 11am
    Tuesday 9 September | 11am
    Tuesday 16 September | 11am
    Tuesday 23 September | 11am
    Tuesday 30 September | 11am

    Sunday 5 October | 11am

  • General Tour – Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look

    General Tour – Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look

    Led by our brilliant volunteers, these tours take you on a deeper dive into Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look. Shining a light on the context behind the works and some of the finer details about their production.

    Free with your exhibition ticket, booking advised.

    Taking place

    Tuesdays and Saturdays [from August] | 2pm

     

     

  • Audio Described Exhibition Tour Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look

    Audio Described Exhibition Tour Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look

    Join artist and tour guide Lisa Tilley to explore Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look. With in-depth descriptions and hand-held touch elements, Lisa will guide visitors through a unique selection of key artworks. This event is designed for those who are blind or partially sighted, and their companions.

    Please contact Rosie on rmay@localhost with any questions prior to your visit.

    Taking place:
    Tuesday 19 August, 10.30am

  • BSL Artist Led Tour Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look

    BSL Artist Led Tour Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look

    Join Deaf artist and tour guide Chisato Minamimura for an in-depth exploration of Paz Errazuriz: Dare to Look. This event will be delivered in British Sign Language (BSL), and is only suitable for D/deaf visitors and users of BSL.

    Taking place:
    Saturday 16 August 2025, 11am

  • Walking Festival Tour: Public Art & Architecture in MK

    Walking Festival Tour: Public Art & Architecture in MK

    MK Gallery are delighted to be taking part in the MK Walking Festival for the first time this year in partnership with The Parks Trust.

    Join tour guides for an afternoon walking tour of the public art and architecture around MK Gallery and the stunning adjacent Campbell Park.

    Saturday 10 May 2025, 2pm – 3.30pm

    Meeting at: MK Gallery, Margaret Powell Square, CMK
    What 3 Words: trespass.abruptly.hurtles

    We advise wearing comfortable shoes and dressing for the weather. Whilst the route is accessible, it may include some inclines. There are no toilet facilities or refreshments available within the park, the closest are back at the gallery, so why not stay for a beverage afterwards?

     

  • Conversational Tour – Andy Warhol: Portrait of America

    Conversational Tour – Andy Warhol: Portrait of America

    Join our volunteer guides for a friendly tour discussing Andy Warhol: Portrait of America.

    These tours provide visitors with the opportunity to engage with the exhibition and express their own thoughts and ideas about the artworks in a small group.

    Conversational Tours are free, but require you to purchase an exhibition ticket separately.

    Dates and times

    Tuesday 1 April, 11am
    Sunday 6 April, 11am
    Tuesday 8 April, 11am
    Tuesday 15 April, 11am
    Tuesday 22 April, 11am
    Tuesday 29 April, 11am

    Sunday 4 May, 11am
    Tuesday 6 May, 11am
    Tuesday 13 May, 11am
    Tuesday 20 May, 11am
    Tuesday 27 May, 11am

    Sunday 1 June, 11am
    Tuesday 3 June, 11am
    Tuesday 10 June, 11am
    Tuesday 17 June, 11am
    Tuesday 24 June, 11am

  • Audio Described Tour: Andy Warhol – Portrait of America

    Audio Described Tour: Andy Warhol – Portrait of America

    Experience in-depth visual descriptions, alongside hand-held and touch elements, of key works from Andy Warhol: Portrait of America. This event is led by tour guide Robin Clements, and is suitable for those who are blind or partially sighted.

    Volunteers will be present throughout the tour to act as sighted guides for those visitors attending without a companion. Please note that companion tickets are free of charge. If you have any questions or specific access requirements you would like us to know about in advance, please contact Rosie on rmay@localhost. Volunteer-led Audio Described exhibition experiences If you are unable to attend the above artist-led tour, we also have trained volunteers who are available to lead you through the galleries in an audio-described experience. If you would like to contact us about this service, please contact Emma on ebarford@localhost

    About the exhibition:
    Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a leading figure in American Pop art. This ARTIST ROOMS exhibition of works from the 1950s – 80s includes early drawings, painted-silkscreens and photographic series featuring Warhol’s collaborations with artists, friends, filmmakers and celebrities. Images of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Warhol himself, feature alongside icons of American consumerism as well as symbols of the artists fascination with mortality: guns, skulls and war.