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Amazing place! Great for little ones. Lots of interaction and activities. Fantastic collection of art work on view and currently your art can be displayed along side some famous names! Good little cafe inside, bit pricey but tasty food and good coffee. Friendly staff, happy to chat and very welcoming. I could buy everything from the gift shop, fab array of arty gifts. It was only our first visit but will certainly make an effort to return when back in the area! A little gem of place. Lucky Colchester!

Really amazing . We stay about 2 hours but not enough, lots of activities for kids. My son painted and visitor hanged on the wall. Design and atmosphere is really effectively

Really nice place. We went for craft session during this summer holiday. Activity was free of charge. There is station where you can make donation if you choose to. It's both cash and card. Downfall is that if you want to use card only option is to donate £10 as far as I'm concern. Both kids loved it.

What a wonderful creative space and such friendly staff.
Lovely looking building. Vibrant space and we went for the Singh Twins exhibition - brilliantly curated and the gentleman with dark nails we spoke to was SO informative and enthusiastic.
The Essex Way by Michael Landy too was SO interesting and informative and who knew the beauty queen from Africa who made a splash in Essex!
Friendly cafe staff and inexpensive items

Contemporary art feast in Essex. And it’s free. Amazing building and the curator has always something interesting to showcase. Go!

This is a great place if you're visiting Colchester and like exhibitions or like me, have a child or two and need to keep them busy in summer when the weather is rubbish. There are free children's activities every day from 10am to 2.30 pm and interesting exhibitions for people of all ages. At the back of the venue, you'll find a café. Entry is free but you can make a donation (suggested £5) at donation points using your debit or credit card. Very nice and helpful staff and volunteers around. Pop in, you won't be disappointed.

Free art gallery. Very interesting large exhibits. A little bit introspective as it was all about Essex. One installation was about excess landfill and the throwaway society. A little at odds with this was an installation by Michael Landy about systematically destroying all his possessions and sending the waste to the local landfill! If he'd put them on eBay I probably would have bought some of them!

Amazing building with exellent, and continually changing, range of modern and historic art.

Often have additional activities for all ages, really well worth a visit if you are visiting Colchester.