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Learning Lounge

Visitor notice 💡
Please note that Learning Lounge will be hosting an exhibition We all came here from somewhere from 23 Nov 2024 – 9 Feb 2025. 

If you're looking for a space to play and explore as a family during this time, please join us for our fully interactive exhibition Leap Then Look: Play Interact Explore in our Ground Floor gallery.

Adult handing toddler pencil
Family Days February 2023. Photo: House of Hues

Wednesday–Sunday, 10am-6pm 

Free, drop-in

The perfect place to find out more about art, our projects, artists and communities.

Our Learning Lounge on Level 2 is the perfect place for a pause on your visit to Baltic. Here you will find a space to find out more about art, explore Baltic’s projects with partners, artists and our communities.

Baltic’s Learning Lounge is an informal learning space. All of the films playing in the Learning Lounge are subtitled.

Parent crafting with child

The Library is a reference-only free, drop-in resource with over 13,000 books on contemporary art, artists, design and visual culture.

There’s a pair of computers and free wi-fi that can be used.

The Sensory Room is also free entry, drop-in. Here your family members and especially little ones can enjoy fibre optics, a bubble tube, a light table with coloured shapes and a projector. We also have light-up orbs and cubes, large soft shapes, matting and a sofa to rest and relax on.

Learning Lounge also has educational games, toys and books for you to use. At weekends families can take part in self-led creative activities.

The Learning Lounge has soft seating, tables and chairs as well as comfortable matting.

Please donate today

As a registered charity, donations to Baltic are crucial as rising costs threaten our ability to

  • Keep our exhibitions free entry and accessible to everyone
  • Preserve support and opportunities for our communities to thrive
  • Maintain our historical and iconic building
Donate today