HORIZONS: THE SEA IN PAINT

Exhibition highlights

HORIZONS: THE SEA IN PAINT

Every generation stands at the cliff edge and paints the water differently. Horizons brings Monet, Homer, Turner and Renoir into one long sea-facing room, two centuries of waves under changing light.

The hang follows the day itself: dawn fishing boats, noon cliffs crowded with walkers, dusk seas that swallow the horizon. Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville anchors the noon wall, its two small figures dwarfed by spray and sky.

Benches face the largest canvases, and a soundscape of recorded shorelines runs softly beneath — the museum's quietest room, guards report, and its most photographed.

On view

Aug 14 – Nov 29, 2026

Where

East Galleries, Sea Room

Works

32 paintings & watercolors

Admission

Included with ticket

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Inside the rooms

NOT TO MISS

• —Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882
• —Homer watercolors beside Turner oils
• —A dawn-to-dusk hang with shoreline soundscape

Art & Science

PROGRAM

• Marine painting lecture — Sep 12, 18:30
• Watercolor on the terrace — Sep 27, 10:00
• Lantern-lit late view — Oct 30, until 21:00