The Art Explora Mobile Museum visits Rotherham!

The Art Explora Mobile Museum visits Rotherham!

Art, history, and everyday surroundings – just some aspects of culture that make a place wonderful!

Art, history, and everyday surroundings – just some aspects of culture that make a place wonderful! This April, the former mining town of Maltby was chosen as Rotherham’s host location for the Art Explora Mobile Museum on its journey from Yorkshire, making its exhibition in collaboration with Tate accessible to those far from city centres!

On the 16th of April, the Art Explora Mobile Museum landed in Rotherham at Maltby Leisure Centre, bringing with it the opportunity to drop-in and see the ‘Soup, Socks, and Spiders! Art of the Everyday’ exhibition. Featuring 22 artworks from Tate’s collection, the mobile museum became a hotspot in Maltby, inviting families, schools, and young people to view the exhibition and take part in creative workshops for free!

On the 17th of April, Maltby Manor Academy students visited the wonder-on-wheels to take part in one of the creative workshops on offer and explore the art of the everyday. Setting their sights upon still life artworks and moments of the mundane captured in photography and videography. The question behind it all – what makes objects ‘everyday’, and what makes them ‘art’? The young students then got to have a go at creating their own artworks inspired by the everyday, with images of iconic art such as Andy Warhol’s ‘Campbell’s Soup’ and ‘The Spider That Died In The Tower Of London’ by Cornelia Parker on display to provide inspiration.

Brought to Maltby with support by Rotherham Council, Clifton Park Museum, and Flux Rotherham, the mobile museum project was born from MuMo, founded by Ingrid Brochard, and designed by Matali Crasset. The French organisation is currently working in partnership with Explora Art to bring artworks and exhibitions across Europe.

You can follow MuMo and the mobile museum’s journey across the UK: Follow MuMo and the mobile museum. (Page opens in a new window)

With the mission to turn Rotherham into the world’s first Children’s Capital of Culture well on its way, it is accessible activities and events such as this that are ever important in creating an enriching culture for Rotherham’s young people. If you’d like to bring an art exhibition or cultural experience to Rotherham, get in contact with us via email at ccoc@rotherham.gov.uk and join us on the road to 2025!