Ben Uri Gallery and Museum turned the traditional museum operating and visitor engagement model on its head in 2018. It reprioritised into a hybrid led through digital and research on the wide immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900 supporting the traditional physical presentations. It has four websites sharing in excess of 12,000 pages through benuri.org which links to benuricollection.org.uk / buru.org.uk and diaspora-artists.net / all focusing on its unique and distinctive academic focus of the immigrant experience and contribution to this country’s rich and diverse cultural mosaic. Its gallery in St. John’s Wood, in north west London, remains a hive of creative theatre to showcase selections from the museum’s acclaimed collection, extensive art reference library and temporary exhibitions within its small physical space. Ben Uri was founded by a Russian Jewish artist in 1915 in Whitechapel to support Jewish immigrant artists who were excluded from the mainstream arts scene and build a collection of their works. Reflecting its history, the collection principally represents artists of European Jewish descent, but since 2002, the remit widened to include immigrant artists from all national, ethnic and religious origins, who have helped to enrich Britain's cultural landscape. The pre-eminent and core collections contain some 950 works by some 400 artists (three-quarters of them immigrants), including Auerbach, Bomberg, Chagall, Epstein, Enwonwu, Frankfurther, Gertler, Grosz, Herman, Hirszenberg, Joseph, Kossoff, Kramer, Levy, Liebermann, Meninsky, Minkowski, von Motesiczky, Pissarro, Rosenberg, Schwitters, Soutine, and Wolmark. Evidence of the international recognition of the shift and widening of the remit was apparent when Ben Uri’s painting of a tribal dancer by the Nigerian modernist, Benedict Enwonwu, was selected to be in the 2024 Venice Biennale’s central exhibition ‘Foreigners Everywhere’. The gallery is open every Wednesday to Friday from 10am–5.30pm during exhibitions. See benuri.org/whats-on to check current exhibition and dates. We display works from our collection alongside loans from other museums as part of our diverse changing exhibition programme.