Art galleries in Banbury

Galleries are best taken slowly. Banbury, England has 16 mapped right now. That's 16 galleries mapped around Banbury. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Opening nights are the cheat code — free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that actually wants to talk about the work.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Banbury (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Art Box and The Drawing Room, plus Mr Pickwick's. If a gallery's missing from Banbury's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Banbury gallery lineup

16 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Banbury

5 of the 16 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

2 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Banbury gallery walk

The efficient Banbury gallery walk strings these together: Art Box, The Drawing Room on The Ridings Arcade, Mr Pickwick's on 38 High Street, Art Room on Parade, Pembroke Art on 5 Brewer Street, West Ox Arts on Market Square, Compton Verney Art Gallery, and Stantonbury Gallery — 16 stops, one logical order. 8 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Banbury

How the regulars do Banbury's galleries:

• Visit twice if it moves you at Art Box. A second visit to a strong show is never wasted. You see completely different work the second time.
• Check accessibility at The Drawing Room. Older gallery buildings can be tricky. The website usually notes step-free access — check before you go.
• Ask about the artists. Local, emerging, mid-career — the gallerist can tell you who's who and why this show matters.
• Ask about private views. Mailing lists get you invited to previews — quieter, with the artists around and first pick of the work.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Banbury — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Banbury can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 16 that's closed, or a great art gallery we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 16 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.