Art History Festival
Explore and celebrate the histories of art, design and architecture at The Art History Festival.
Largest-ever Art History Festival gears up with a nature-inspired programme this month. Between Monday 15 September – Sunday 21 September, with the help of over 100 partners, the public will be able to enjoy talks from leading artists and historians, hands-on workshops, panel discussions, family activities and live online and recording events, showing art can be enjoyed by everyone, everywhere - with everything absolutely free!
The theme of the 2025 festival is art’s close relationship with nature and how this can be a key factor in improving people’s well-being and mental health. It will showcase the power of art and nature together, and its ability to heal, uplift and rejuvenate individuals and communities. Drawing on cultures from around the world, from Chinese calligraphy to contemporary eco-art, it will explore how art from around the world responds to themes relating to the natural world.
The festival operates UK-wide, from culture-rich cities to rural towns, with major museums taking part, as well as the special and unique places that some may not have yet visited. This includes the Hundred Heroines Museum in Stroud who are exhibiting works of nature by female artists and photographers, a workshop at Bethlam Museum of the Mind to create floral-inspired bookmarks, and a display of animal paintings at the Alfred Cohen Museum in Norfolk’s Wighton village.
For art lovers, families with budding artists, and those wanting a deeper understanding of the art and nature around us, the Art History Festival offers an easy way to find, plan and organise your week of art with a full events listing available on the website.
And through a new partnership with Bloomberg, all events will be available to book easily on the Bloomberg app.
Gregory Perry, Chief Executive, Association for Art History said “I’m delighted to see the Art History Festival continue to grow and return for its fifth year. It’s a fantastic demonstration of how art history connects people--through ideas, objects and stories--and how it can illuminate the world around us. As the only one of its kind in the UK, the Festival offers a unique opportunity to celebrate and take part in the inspiring work that organisations and people in the arts produce for audiences across the UK.“