Exploring the role of the thousands of Chinese who risked their lives alongside the British forces during WWI. Image: WJ Hawkings Collection, courtesy of John de Lucy.

Contemporary artist Alan O’Cain brings his trademark dark humour and provocativeness to an installation in our Thacker Gallery.

Malcolm MacDonald’s collections at the Oriental Museum focus on beautiful objects from across Southeast Asia and his collection of Chinese ceramics spanning 4,000 years.

The Art Studio is a Sunderland-based mental health charity that provides support to improve the lives of members through art.

An international touring exhibition from the Japan Foundation showcasing contemporary works by living netsuke carvers in Japan.

A British Museum exhibition featuring a selection of delightfully detailed netsuke and other traditional Japanese male dress accessories.

An exhibition marking the centenary of the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition, the first Western, and ultimately tragic, attempt to climb the world's highest mountain.

This exhibition showcases the work of the professional artists and craftswomen who do so much to preserve and transfer traditional knowledge and skills.

An exhibition by curator/photographer Lauren Barnes, illustrating the everyday lives of South Koreans over the course of a year.

In 2016, photographer James Sebright travelled around the South China Sea region, meeting Cham communities in China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Malaysia.

An exhibition celebrating the elegance of Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese jades from the Arnhold collection of Chinese art.

This exhibition showcases works influenced by both the Oriental Museum’s collections and Durham University’s contemporary Western Art collections.

Led by our Music Department, this multimedia exhibition brings together visual artists and musicians to explore diverse visual responses to Indian classical music.

An exhibition celebrating the extraordinary range and versatility of style, technique and aesthetic expression in modern Chinese prints.

Lunar New Year, called the Spring Festival in China, is China's biggest and most important annual festival.

This exhibition highlights Japanese stories, real and fictional, and how they were told through the art of woodblock printing.

An exhibition celebrating the elegance of Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese jades from the Arnhold collection of Chinese art.

This exhibition explores how photography turned Tutankhamun into a global sensation.

A British Museum touring exhibition illustrating how artists experiment with the power of paper to express their ideas.

This moving exhibition highlighted the devastation wreaked by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

This photographic exhibition tells the story of the Kasthamandap, from its origins to its collapse to its renewal.

Artists Stephen, Margaret and Kate Livingstone working with Dr Abbie Garrington of Durham University to recreate heroic Himalayan mountain climbs in miniature.

The Silla Collection 100 Project consists of 100 brooches inspired by traditional jewellery and accessories from the Korean Silla dynasty (57 BCE-935 CE).

This exhibition focuses on the ancient site of Taxila, around 32 kilometres from Pakistan’s federal capital, Islamabad.

An exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration in Japan and the connections between Japan and the North East.

An exhibition of contemporary ceramics inspired by the experiences of international students, created by artist Katrin Moye.

A student-led, family friendly exhibition showcasing toys from across Asia and Egypt to celebrate the simple fact of humanity: we all love to play.

This exhibition highlights the work of a group of contemporary miniature painters working in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Using the collections of the Oriental Museum, this exhibition focuses on the family of Tutankhamun, particularly his father and grandfather.

Inspired by two small objects from the Oriental Museum’s collections, the works in this installation focus on the uterus, and the distress caused by the loss of a child.

An exhibition celebrating the work of emerging contemporary artists and designers from the Middle East and North Africa recently acquired by the Oriental Museum.