Christmas at Pallant House Gallery

Join us this Christmas for festive fun for all the family!

If you are looking for some fun and festive family Christmas activities in Chichester, then you are in the right place. We have a host of creative activities planned throughout the holidays to ensure that you enjoy a magical Chichester Christmas 2022.

Make your own Christmas decorations with the kids or join us on a starlit tour of Chichester together with the city’s other cultural institutions.

We hope to see you soon.

Christmas Opening Hours

Saturday 24th December: 10am – 5pm

Sunday 25th December: Closed

Monday 26th December: Closed

Tuesday 27th December: 11am – 5pm

Sunday 1st January: Closed

Monday 2nd January: Closed

A sculpture of an ostrich which looks like a dodo standing in front of soft yellow fairylights.

Christmas Decorations | Drop-in Sessions

Saturday 17 December

11am-2pm

Make your own Christmas baubles to take home and put on the tree. Suitable for all the family.

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Collage with abstract colours in reds and yellows with a planet in the middle and magazine cut outs of a man in a suit and a bird and a dancing woman

Community Programme Fundraising Exhibition

1 December – 26 March

Pick up original pieces of art at affordable prices in our annual Community Programme Fundraising Exhibition – the perfect gift for the art lovers in your life. From paintings to prints, all artworks have been created and donated by artists involved with the Community Programme.

All funds raised will go towards the Community Programme, which works to ensure that everyone can experience a creative life on their terms.

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Advent at Pallant

Discover a piece of festive art every day of advent.

To celebrate our ‘Christmas Greetings from Modern British Artists’ exhibition and the wonderful work of our Community Programme we have created a daily series of posts for Advent.

Every day you will see either a Christmas card from the exhibition or a work created by a member of our Community Programme.

Find the series on our Instagram page.

Christmas at Pallant Cafe

Photograph of afternoon tea on a table with two glasses of sparkling wine, two tea pots and cups and saucers with a copper frame holding plates of cakes and sandwiches in the background. To left and right of the table you can see the hands of a person.

Enjoy a festive Sparkling Afternoon Tea during your visit.

Book a special edition of Pallant Cafe’s afternoon tea to celebrate the festive season or simply pop-in for a tea or coffee during your Christmas shopping trip.

Book afternoon tea

Find the perfect art gift

Table strewn with many different Christmas cards

Pop into Pallant House Bookshop this Christmas.

Find one of a kind Christmas cards, art books and prints at Pallant House Bookshop, including our most recent exhibition catalogues and Christmas cards designed by Glyn Philpot, Eric Ravilious and Paul Nash.