Exhibitions
In this section you can find out about our current and upcoming exhibitions.
Current exhibition
Our gallery is closed at the moment while we get ready for our next exciting exhibition.
Coming up....
Unhomely will be on display from Sunday 13 September to Sunday 13 December 2026.
The Unhomely is a public programme and exhibition series by Culture& in partnership with The Brampton Museum, University of Staffordshire and The Museum of the Home, exploring how histories of migration, displacement, belonging and identity shape our understandings of home. Rooted in psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny, also translated as the Unhomely. The project explores the meaning of home and asks: what does it mean when the familiar becomes strange?
For this exhibition, we turned this question towards the local community, asking how people, or their families, came to live in North Staffordshire. Through a series of oral histories, we began to trace the many routes that have brought people to the region, revealing the complexity of migration and the different ways in which home is made, carried and remembered.
At the heart of the exhibition are the tapestries which transcribe these oral histories: sharing experiences of people moving in search of community and livelihood; stories of war and conflict that have caused displacement; and legacies that have been carried through migration and have become a part of the cultural fabric of a new home. The large-scale textiles composed of words, phrases, and excerpts are drawn directly from the recorded conversations shared by participants, transforming spoken testimony of lived experience represented by a physical object that visitors can pause with, read closely, to which they can return throughout their journey. Behaving as both an archive and a gathering place, the installation reveals migration not as a singular experience, but as a collection of journeys shaped by chance, resilience and possibility.
Played throughout the space is In Perpetuum, a site-responsive soundscape by Güler Ateş, in collaboration with Leyla Huysal and Yusuf Huysal. Originally created in response to the Chapel at the Museum of the Home, London, the sound piece has traveled to The Brampton, before ultimately returning to the Museum of the Home - this journey becomes a gesture towards the circularity of movement - a continuous passage between places, where the voices, memories and experiences of people never remain entirely fixed. On the backdrop of the tapestries, In Perpetuum is a four‑channel sound piece with no beginning or end. Created by the artist’s experience of belonging, loss and cultural memory, the work invites visitors to slow down and inhabit the space, guided by themes of ambiguity and the unknown.
This exhibition is an invitation to immerse yourself in, meditate on, and contemplate the lived stories of North Staffordshire communities. By bringing voices and diverse experiences that may otherwise remain unheard into the museum, these oral histories create an opportunity for neighbours to speak for themselves,to one another, share their own experiences and recognise the common histories that exist within their communities.
About Culture&
Culture& is an independent arts and education charity formed in 1988 based in Stoke-on-Trent that works to open up who makes and enjoys arts and heritage. We work in partnership with arts and heritage institutions and artists to develop programmes that promote diversity in the workforce and expand audiences. We deliver this work through education, research, consultancy and collaborative public programmes.
Located in eighteenth century former almshouses in Hoxton, London, the Museum of the Home explores the meaning of home and domestic life in Britain from 1600 to the present. Featuring immersive "Rooms Through Time" exhibits and period gardens, admission is free.
