Art galleries in Belfast

Looking for art in Belfast, Northern Ireland? There are 10 galleries mapped here. That's 10 galleries mapped around Belfast. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Ask the gallerist what's on — they're usually delighted someone asked.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Belfast (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include RSUA Design Box and Wool Tower Art Gallery, plus Artcetera. If a gallery's missing from Belfast's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Belfast gallery lineup

10 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Belfast

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.

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

3 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Belfast gallery walk

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: RSUA Design Box, Wool Tower Art Gallery, Artcetera on 43b Rosemary Street, Catalyst Arts on 6 Joy's Entry, Golden Thread Gallery, University of Atypical on 109-113 Royal Avenue, The MAC on 10 Exchange Street West, and Vault Artist Studios & Gallery - Marlborough House. That's 10 stops on the Belfast gallery walk. 2 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Belfast

How the regulars do Belfast's galleries:

• Take the long way through at RSUA Design Box. Galleries reward slow looking. One extra lap always reveals something the first pass missed.
• Buy the catalogue at Wool Tower Art Gallery. Exhibition catalogues are the affordable art book. They sell out after the show closes.
• Follow the galleries online. Openings and one-night events get announced on social media first. One follow catches them all.
• Ask about the price list. It's normal to ask, even if you're not buying. It tells you how the market values the work.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Belfast — 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 Belfast can take a while to appear. The 10 above are only as current as the community map. A art gallery that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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.