Visiting us
Opening times
During exhibitions Primary is open Thursday – Saturday, 10am-6pm, or by appointment. For details of current exhibitions and upcoming events please visit our What’s On page.
Independent Businesses & Galleries at Primary
Small Food Bakery is open Fridays and Saturdays 10am-2pm.
Beam, gallery, café and bookstore is open Thursday – Saturday, 9am-5pm.
Please visit Forth and TG websites for details on their opening times.
Finding us
Primary is a 15-minute walk from Nottingham City Centre and a 30-minute walk from Nottingham Train Station. We encourage visitors to walk, cycle, or use public transport to get to us wherever possible.
We have disabled parking onsite accessible via Douglas Road, please call 0115 924 4493 to arrange access as this entrance is gated. There is no general visitor parking onsite and there are parking restrictions in place on Seely Road, which is actively patrolled.
Buses: The i4 and Indigo bus leaves from Friar Lane (stop F4) (city centre) and stops at Seely Road. The 30 towards Wollaton leaves from Upper Parliament Street (stop U2) down from the Royal Centre and stops on Highurst Street.
Accessibility
Access to Primary is step-free via our new main entrance on Seely Road. From here there is level access to our playground, ground floor gallery space, Reading Room, kitchen and public toilets as well as independent businesses Small Food Bakery and Beam.
Primary has an accessible toilet. The accessible toilet does not have a hoist.
There is no step-free access to our first floor gallery space or independent galleries Forth and TG.
Primary has disabled parking onsite accessible via Douglas Road, please call 0115 924 4493 to arrange access as this entrance is gated.
For more information please click here to use the Access Guide to Our Building.
Primary provides large print and braille versions of exhibition texts, please ask our Front of House Assistant for details during your visit.
Please email admin@weareprimary.org or call 0115 924 4493 with any access inquiries.
Open Code, Mac Collins, Primary (2022). Photo by Reece Straw. Image shows Primary’s new platform lift, which provides step-free access between our split-level ground floor spaces.
Group or quiet time visits
Primary's gallery spaces are large and on a regular open day they are uncrowded. Staff can provide extra ventilation through opening windows on request. We will be happy to let visitors know expected numbers for public events.
If you would like to make a group booking or visit our exhibitions at a quiet time please contact us on admin@weareprimary.org or 0115 924 4493 to arrange.
Reading Room
Our Reading Room area is a space to relax, reflect and explore publications and audio-visual materials from Primary’s archive and current exhibitions. Please feel free to take a drink into the space, meet friends there, or spend time browsing the library of publications and audio material on display. The screen in this area will display the show-reel from our exhibition in our first floor gallery, for anyone who cannot access the upstairs space.
We are currently working on updating a number of our policies, please get in touch to request further details.