Art galleries in Beirut

Galleries are best taken slowly. Beirut, Beirut has 10 mapped right now. That's 10 galleries mapped around Beirut. 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 Beirut (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 392Rmeil393 and Art on 56th, plus Ardeco Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Beirut's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Beirut gallery lineup

10 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Beirut

2 of the 10 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 Beirut gallery walk

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: 392Rmeil393, Art on 56th, Ardeco Gallery, دار النمر, غاليري صالح بركات, Galerie Tanit, Galerie Janine Rubeiz on جادة الجنرال ديغول, and آرت سين استوديو on شارع غورو. That's 10 stops on the Beirut gallery walk. 2 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Beirut

How the regulars do Beirut's galleries:

• Don't rush the video work at 392Rmeil393. Video installations need their full runtime. Sit down, give it the minutes it asks for.
• Read the wall text at Art on 56th. It's short and it's there to help. Even the cryptic ones give you a way into the work.
• The bookshop corner is curated. Gallery bookshops stock the art books the big stores don't. Worth ten minutes on the way out.
• Visit twice if it moves you. A second visit to a strong show is never wasted. You see completely different work the second time.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Beirut — 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 Beirut can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 10, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 10 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.