Art
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Lethaby Gallery
Central Saint Martins’ on-site gallery for exhibitions drawn from teaching, research and the Museum & Study Collection—named for Arts & Crafts architect-educator William Lethaby, whose ideas about learning through making still shape the school.
Opening Hours
Sunday: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Wednesday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Friday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
What's not to miss inside?
Museum & Study Collection Showcases
Objects and archives from the former Central School of Arts & Crafts trace design teaching from the late 19th century to today.Spot teaching models and process boards—proto-‘how-to’ guides used in class a century ago.
📍 Granary Building, King’s Cross
Student & Alumni Projects
Rotating displays reveal current practice across fashion, graphics, product and performance design.Follow a project from sketch to prototype and final—iteration is the real exhibit.
📍 Main hall and side bays
Research & Collaboration
The gallery often hosts practice-based research—material experiments, sustainable processes and cross-disciplinary work.Look for materials lists and lifecycle notes; the ‘footnotes’ can be the breakthrough.
📍 Project walls / media screens
Inspire your Friends
- Named after William Lethaby (1857–1931), founding principal of the Central School of Arts & Crafts in 1896, whose pedagogy blended craft skill with design theory.
- Exhibitions frequently draw on CSM’s Museum & Study Collection—teaching aids, textiles, posters and prototypes that document over a century of art-and-design education.
- The gallery sits in the 1850s Granary Building at King’s Cross—an industrial shell repurposed for studios and public exhibition space.
