Site Gallery
1 Brown Street,
Sheffield,
S1 2BS
Tel: 0114 2812077

Linked to the superb Winter Garden in the heart of the city, the Millennium Galleries is an outstanding venue for the visual arts, craft and design and is one of Sheffield's architectural and cultural treasures. The Galleries are justly famed for bringing masterpieces from national galleries and museums to the city and placing them alongside innovative contemporary and historical design. Also home to Sheffield's metalwork gallery and the Ruskin Gallery with its collection of minerals, paintings, drawings, ornithological prints, Medieval manuscripts, books and architectural plastercasts assembled by John Ruskin.

Opening Times
Monday – Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

Graves Art Gallery
Surrey Street,
Sheffield,
S1 1XZ
Tel: 0114 2782600

With a history dating back to 1934, the centrally located Graves Art Gallery frequently hosts touring exhibitions in addition to the city's collections of 19th and 20th century British and European Art.

Opening Times
Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm

Botanical Gardens
Clarkehouse Road,
Sheffield,
S10 2LN
Tel: 0114 267 6496

Currently undergoing a major restoration programme, Sheffield Botanical Gardens offer a haven of peace and tranquillity within the busy city. Created in 1836, the Gardens are listed by English Heritage as a Grade Two site and contain a number of listed buildings, including the glass pavilions which house a simply stunning collection of trees and shrubs. Features a café and restaurant worthy of a visit alone.
Open:
Summer: Mon-Fri 8am-dusk, Sat & Sun 10am-dusk;
Winter: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Sat & Sun 10am-4pm.
Admission: Free

Winter Garden
Surrey Street,
Sheffield
S1 2LH
Tel: 0114 221 1900

Sheffield's stunning green world in the heart of the city is one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be built in the UK during the last hundred years. Linking the Millennium Galleries, Tudor Square and the Peace Gardens, it houses a superb display of more than 2,500 plants made up of more than 150 species from around the world. Features a café and restaurant.
Open: daily (except Christmas Day) 8am-6pm.
Admission: Free

Kelham Island Museum
Alma Street,
Sheffield
S3 8RY
Tel:0114 2722106

Opened in 1982, Kelham Island Museum is part of the Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust and tells the real story behind the city of steel. Located in one of the city's oldest industrial districts, the Museum stands on a man-made island over 900 years old. The main attractions of this living and working museum include the mighty 12,000 HP River Don steam engine and one of only three Bessemer converters left in the world. Younger visitors can enjoy the interactive experience where children clock in, are melted, rolled and hammered like steel!

Open: Mon-Thurs 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-4.45pm.

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Abbeydale Road South,
Sheffield
S7 2QW
Tel: 0114 2367731

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is an authentic 18th Century industrial works, housed in a Grade One Listed building. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. At the Hamlet, visitors can see waterwheels, tilt hammers, a grinding hull and the only intact crucible steel furnace surviving in the world today creating a unique atmosphere of life during the Industrial Revolution.

Open: April-October
Monday-Thursday 10.00 am to 4.00 pm; Sunday 11.00 am to 4.45 pm.

Shepherd Wheel
Whiteley Woods,
off Hangingwater Road,
Sheffield
Tel: 0114 236 7731

Set on the River Porter in the tranquil and picturesque setting of Whiteley woods, Shepherd Wheel is a 16th century water powered grinding workshop giving an intriguing insight into Sheffield's industrial past. The site is a Grade Two listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Opening Times:
Shepherd Wheel is open to the public on selected Sundays and Bank Holidays throughout the year – please see Events page for dates. The site is open all year round for pre-booked school and group visits 
Admission: Free

Bishops’ House
Norton Lees Lane,
Sheffield,
S8 9BE
Tel: 0114 2782600

Bishops' House is a superbly well-preserved timber framed house. Built around 1500, it can be found close to the upper entrances to Meersbrook Park in Sheffield. Bishops' House retains many of its original features and typifies the development of the smaller English domestic house in the 16 th and 17 th Centuries.

Opening Times
Saturday 10am – 4.30pm
Sunday 11am – 4.30pm
Monday – Friday 10am – 3pm (pre-booked educational groups only)

Sheffield Hallam FM Arena
Broughton Lane,
Sheffield,
S9 2DF
Tel: 0114 2565656

Formerly the Don Valley Arena, the award winning Hallam FM Arena has established a reputation for hosting world-class events. Hosting pop and rock concerts, ice shows, sporting events and exhibitions, as well as being the home to Sheffield's Superleague ice hockey team the Steelers, the Arena attracts almost one million people through its doors every year. Hallam FM Arena's impressive hospitality facilities include 32 private suites with excellent views of the auditorium; each accommodating up to 12 people; plus a superb backstage marquee which can comfortably seat 100 guests for groups of 10 or more.

The Sheffield Theatres Complex
55 Norfolk Street,
Sheffield,
S1 1DA
Tel: 0114 249 6000

The Crucible Theatre
The Crucible was opened in 1971. The 980-seat Crucible auditorium is the main producing venue in the Sheffield Theatres complex, but also receives some touring work as well as hosting the annual World Snooker Championships.

The Lyceum Theatre
The Lyceum Theatre was designed by W.G.R. Sprague and originally opened in 1897; the 1068-seat theatre is a listed building and is the only surviving example of Sprague’s design outside of London. The Lyceum was subject to a £12 million renovation and reopened as a Number One Touring Venue in 1991.

The Studio Theatre
The award winning Studio Theatre opened in 1971 and was refurbished in 1994. It has a capacity of up to 400 and features a flexible design whereby the seating can be adjusted to play on one, two or three sides or in the round. The Studio hosts a mix of in-house and touring productions, and is also home to the acclaimed Lindsay String Quartet's Music in the Round Festival.

Sheffield City Hall
Barkers Pool,
Balm Green,
Sheffield,
S1 2JA
Tel: 0114 2789789

Sheffield’s much-loved venue the City Hall is currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment at a cost of £12.5million. Doors will open again in Autumn 2005 and the new Sheffield City Hall will be improved in its standards of accessibility, comfort and service.

Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Church Street,
Sheffield,
S1 1HA
Tel: 0114 275 3434

Sheffield Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is the City Centre's only medieval building and is a parish church cathedral; Sheffield's parish church was designated the cathedral of a new diocese in 1913. The shaft of a 9th Century Saxon cross was found on the site during work on the cathedral’s extension and it is now held at the British Museum in London. A Grade One Listed Building, this working cathedral contains architecture from the 15th to the 20th century and houses Tudor memorials and magnificent stained glass windows.

Opening times: Varies, call for details (access may be restricted during services)
Admission: Free

Magna
Sheffield Road,
Templeborough,
Rotherham,
S60 1DX
Tel: 01709 720002

Celebrating the power and force of the four Aristolean elements; earth, air, fire and water; and the ways in which man has harnessed them, Magna is the UK's first Science Adventure Centre and is an awe-inspiring day out for adults and children alike. Set in a huge redundant steelworks, visitors can walk on air, feel the heat of a fire tornado, blast water cannons at human targets, fire a hydrogen rocket or take to the controls of a JCB.

Open: daily 10am-5pm, last admission 4pm

Ponds Forge International Sports Centre
Sheaf Street,
Sheffield,
S1 2DP
Tel:0114 279 9766

Ponds Forge International Sports Centre opened in 1991. Part of Sheffield's bid to transform the city into a centre for leisure and tourism, it was built on the site of an old steel mill. Ponds Forge is a distinguished sports and leisure complex as well as being recognised as a world-class sporting event venue and as a reputable health and fitness centre. With a 50m, 10 lane Competition Pool; an Olympic Diving Pool; Leisure Pool; three Fitness Suites and an International Sports Hall, Ponds Forge offers a diverse choice of health and fitness activities.

Open:
Monday and Wednesday, 7.30am -10pm
Tuesday and Thursday 6.30am-10pm
Friday 7.30am - 9.30pm
Saturday & Sunday 9am-9.30pm

Sheffield Ski Village
Vale Road,
Sheffield,
S3 9SJ
Tel: 0114 2769459

Sheffield’s Ski Village is Europe’s largest all season ski resort with superb virtual snow. The resort caters for all levels and abilities of ski, snowboarding and snowblading. Also features top attraction Adventure Mountain.
Open:
Monday -Friday 10am-10pm,
Saturday & Sunday 9am-10pm

Peace Gardens
Town Hall,
Sheffield,
S1 2HH

The Peace Gardens stand on the former site of St Paul's Church, which was demolished in 1938. Their name is derived from Neville Chamberlain's declaration of 'peace in our time' from the same year, but their official title is Saint Paul's Gardens. In 1985 they were formally renamed the Peace Gardens in the presence of a group of survivors of Hiroshima. The Gardens were completely renovated in 1998 and officially opened by The Prince of Wales.