Exhibitions
Mansfields Green Heroes
13 December 2025 - 21 February 2026
The Green Heroes exhibition at Mansfield Museum will celebrate 12 local eco-champions who are making Mansfield more sustainable. Visitors can expect inspiring stories that highlight each Green Hero’s achievements and impact on the local environment, with displays themed around.
Neurodiverse Futures
10 January 2026 - 28 March 2026
This innovative, large-scale immersive digital exhibition explores AI through the lens of neurodiversity. In collaboration with autistic and neurodiverse individuals in Mansfield, we will co-create a unique, evolving artwork that celebrates difference and reimagines thought, imagination, and consciousness.
Green Power, Red Flags
2 March 2026 - 2 May 2026
In March next year we are preparing for our largest exhibition yet, titled Red Flags. The Green Power group’s participants are living with the aftermath of domestic, sexual abuse and other trauma and this exhibition will advocate for an end to gender abuse and speak boldly about the danger signs of unhealthy relationships.
Open Art
5 June 2026 - 27 June 2026
The Open Art Exhibition at Mansfield Museum will celebrate the creativity of local artists working in painting, sculpture, video, installation, and more. Each artist will enjoy their own dedicated exhibition space, offering visitors a diverse and engaging experience. Showcasing originality and imagination, the event provides a vibrant platform for artists to share their work, connect with the community, and inspire fresh conversations around creativity and expression.
Have you ever heard of a Bornean Bristlehead or a Rhinoceros Hornbill? If not, you can now meet them face to face at Mansfield Museum's newly opened natural history gallery, which celebrates feathered friends from around the globe.
The permanent display, A World of Birds, reinterprets the museum’s rich and internationally significant Joseph Whitaker bird collection. This collection contains 3,000 bird specimens, including some species that are critically endangered and on the brink of extinction.
MADE IN MANSFIELD
An exhibition celebrating Mansfield’s industrial past and present: objects, photographs and oral recordings from Metal Box, Mansfield Brewery, Shoe Co. and other important local companies.
BUXTON WATERCOLOURS
The Museum's collection of over 130 Albert Sorby Buxton watercolours are a unique and valuable record of the face of Mansfield at the turn of the century.