Art galleries in Delhi

Delhi, NCT has 16 art galleries on the map. That's 16 galleries mapped around Delhi. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Delhi (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and Progressive Art Gallery, plus Dhoomimal Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Delhi's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Delhi gallery lineup

16 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Delhi

3 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.

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

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

The Delhi gallery walk

The efficient Delhi gallery walk strings these together: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Progressive Art Gallery, Dhoomimal Gallery, Shridharani Gallery, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art on 3A, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, Yes & No Art Gallery, and Tanu Art Gallery — 16 stops, one logical order. 8 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Delhi

A few things worth knowing before you work through Delhi's art galleries:

• Visit twice if it moves you at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. A second visit to a strong show is never wasted. You see completely different work the second time.
• Bring a curious friend at Progressive Art Gallery. Art is better with someone to argue with about it. The disagreement is the point.
• The bookshop corner is curated. Gallery bookshops stock the art books the big stores don't. Worth ten minutes on the way out.
• Go to opening nights. Free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that wants to talk about the work. The best gallery experience there is.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Delhi — 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 Delhi can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 16, 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 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.