Art Galleries, Collecting & Curating
Art History Courses Online & In London

Study works of art in a gallery or museum setting and explore how the meaning of art is impacted by exhibition and curation. Our courses in galleries, on collecting and curating will get you to think about how collecting and display structure your experience of art. Join us online, in the classroom, in the gallery or out and about in London.

Online, classroom-based and gallery-based art history courses

Many of our courses are also offered online, giving you the freedom to study from anywhere you need to be. We also offer our classes in-person at our Central London location and at many galleries and museums in and around London. Use the Location filters on this page to choose your preferred delivery method. See our guide to online learning for more information about our live online courses.

Learn from expert tutors

At City Lit we are proud of the expertise of our tutors who are all professional art historians working actively in museums, galleries, research and writing, universities and auction houses. As experts in the field, they are able to provide you with the support and guidance you need to develop your art historical knowledge. As teachers they provide student-focused education, helping students achieve their art historical goals, both the personal and the professional.

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  1. Looking together: art as communal space
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 14 Oct 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray
    Explore art as a communal space of conversation. Join this workshop to develop or deepen your art interpretation skills by listening and thinking about the meaning of an artwork collaboratively. This session is part of the 2023 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.
    Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00
  2. Constable and the British landscape tradition
    Course start date:  Tue 17 Oct 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Marilyn Greene
    Discover the development of the British Landscape tradition from the 18th and 19th centuries. The Victoria and Albert Museum has the largest collection of John Constable sketches in the world, and we will discuss the works on display in detail and compare with works by J.W.M Turner and other artists on display.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
  3. Friday lates: from objects to finds - archaeological artefacts from the dig to the display
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 20 Oct 2023

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Simone Chisena
    Discover what turns an object into a museum-worthy showpiece as we follow the fascinating path from the shadows of the trenches to the lights of the gallery.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
  4. Islamic art at the British Museum
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 5 Nov 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Anita Chowdry
    Take a Sunday afternoon to explore the British Museum’s newly refurbished Islamic galleries and learn the stories behind one of the world’s great collections of Islamic art.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
  5. Renaissance art: making, locating and viewing
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Nov 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    This course explores the Making, the Locating and the Viewing of Renaissance paintings in the collection of the National Gallery. This course takes place at the National Gallery.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
  6. The Courtauld: an introduction
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Julie Barlow
    The Courtauld collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and decorative arts, ranging from the medieval period to the present day. This two-part course is an opportunity to explore an outstanding collection which includes one of the richest holdings of early Italian art in Britain alongside Impressionist and Post-Impressionist gems such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
  7. Pioneering women at the National Portrait Gallery
    Course start date:  Mon 29 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Julie Barlow
    Meet some of history's most inspiring women, not only well-known pioneers but also women over the past five hundred years whose stories have been forgotten. Discover and celebrate their achievements.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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  8. Cabinets to White Cubes: a history of collecting art in the UK
    Course start date:  Tue 20 Feb 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Chantal Condron
    Have you ever wondered how works of art and cultural objects have been collected for public museums and galleries in Britain? Who collected these objects? What functions have public collections played in society? Why ‘collect for the nation’?



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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