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Temporary Exhibitions

See what is on display in our changing Gallery spaces.

Joyce Butler: 'The National Woman's MP'

  • Until June 2026
  • Location: Townsend Gallery


image of people at a museum exhibition

 

This exhibition has been curated in partnership with Dr Lyndsey Jenkins, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in History, Mansfield College, University of Oxford as part of an AHRC funded heritage project 'The National Woman’s MP: Joyce Butler, women's rights and women's liberation from the 1950s to the 1970s’.

It celebrates the contributions Joyce Butler (1910-1992) made towards the improvement of women’s lives as Councillor and MP for Wood Green from 1947 to 1979. She was a pioneering MP in many respects; most notably she instigated what became the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. Butler was also deeply immersed in local politics, universally respected for her expertise in housing and local government, and the first Chairman of the newly formed Haringey Council in 1965. A campaigner for peace, consumer rights, and environmental protection, her political concerns remain vital and urgent today.

Against the Wind

  • 28 March - 20 July 2025

Defying the odds and reclaiming narratives for Black feminist art

  • Location: Coleraine Gallery

poster advertising against the wind exhibition

Carmelita Kadeena is an artist based in Tottenham. She has been engaged in grassroots activism: writing social policy, working with Trade Unions and at aged 15, pioneering and leading supplementary schools in Birmingham. Now, she uses art to continue her activism.

Her materials are often found - board, old canvases, plaster, metal - or domestic - soot, cement, cutlery. She layers these with acrylic, oil, pastel to create unique, self-taught textures. Her art both asks and answers: 'What can these materials create?'

Carmelita's work celebrates the unique heritage of Black women, often referencing African art and sculpture via photographs. She takes inspiration from outsider artists and the Black Arts Movement of the 1980s.

Through the Eyes of the Children: Wartime Memories

  • Sunday 4 May to end of July

VE Day Commemorative Exhibition

  • Location: Old Kitchen


child stood next to bomb during ww2

 

An exhibition exploring life in wartime Haringey, through the testimonies of local people about their experiences of growing up during the War.