Ikon Gallery
Contemporary art in a neo-Gothic school by the canal, free, with a singing lift.
Ikon has shown new art since the 1960s and its current home, a Victorian school in Brindleyplace, has a lift that plays a choral piece as it moves. Shows change every few months and are always free. A twenty-minute stop that sits neatly with the canal walk.
When it works
Indoors, so the weather does not matter. Best morning, afternoon.
Good for a date, going solo and step-free visits.
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