Two ticketed exhibitions a year, collection displays that change every spring, and a print room that rests its works every three months.
Now showing
12 September 2026 to 28 February 2027 Room 4 and the Paper Room, first floor
Sixty cloths from Ibadan, Abeokuta and Oshogbo, made between 1920 and today, most of them by women whose names were not recorded. The first full survey of adire in the city where much of it was sold.
Timed tickets ₦8,000, including the collection. Members free.
Collection display
Open all year, rehung March 2026 Rooms 2 and 3, ground floor
The rusting zinc roofs of old Ibadan have drawn painters for sixty years. This display puts Tunde Afolabi-Coker's city views beside the photographs he worked from and the young painters who answer him.
Free with general admission
Coming soon
23 January to 2 May 2027 Room 5, first floor
Twelve painters under 35 from the South West, chosen from 340 open call entries. Abstract weather, crowded buses, kitchen tables and portraits of friends: a first look at what Ibadan will be talking about.
Timed tickets ₦6,000, including the collection. Members' preview 22 January.
Rotating display
Changes every three months Room 6, first floor
Linocuts, drawings and gouaches shown in low light for three months at a time, then rested.
Free with general admission
Past exhibition
March to July 2026 Room 5
Yewande Akinlade and eight others. Read how the show was hung in the Gazette.
Closed
Past exhibition
October 2025 to February 2026 Room 3
Musa Dankaro's still lifes with forty years of kitchen objects from the collection.
Closed
Big shows are planned two years out, because loans of cloth and paintings from families and other collections take time, and some works need conservation before they travel.
Room 5 always shows living artists. Half of its shows come from an open call, judged by a panel that changes every year and includes one artist from outside Nigeria.
Cloth and paper fade in light, so they are shown for three to six months and then rested in the dark store for at least three years.
Only for Indigo and New hands. Collection displays and the print room are included with general admission.
Yes. Families lend cloth and paintings for most shows. Write to the curators through the contact page with a photograph.
Curator's walks run twice a month for ticketed shows. See the events calendar.
Stop press
Timed tickets keep the cloth rooms calm. Weekend slots go first.
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