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No. 39 Friday 6 November 2026 Open today, 10am to 6pm Your visits
Live
  • Open now, closes 6pm
  • Indigo show, 2pm entry: 14 tickets left
  • Courtyard cafe: jollof rice bowls until 4pm
  • Next event: curator's walk, Saturday 11am
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Front page Fig. 1, a walk through two roomsAgodi, Ibadan

Walk the Regent, room by room, before you set foot in Agodi

Scroll down and the galleries move with you: the Ruby Room first, with its portraits and market scenes, then the Paper Room, where indigo cloth and new abstract work hang under the skylights. Every painting you pass is in the building today.

Admission today

₦5,000 adult ₦2,000 student under 12 free

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Room 1, the Ruby RoomScroll to walk

The walk passes these works, in order:

  1. The archivist, Ifeoma Nwachukwu, left wall
  2. Two sisters, Oke-Ado, Ifeoma Nwachukwu, right wall
  3. Brown roofs, 1974, Tunde Afolabi-Coker, left wall
  4. Oje market, noon, Femi Adigun, right wall
  5. Agodi hills, evening, Musa Dankaro, left wall
  6. Indigo rain over Mapo, Adebimpe Ogunleye, right wall
  7. Weaver's count, Adebimpe Ogunleye, left wall
  8. Night bus to Lagos, Kehinde Olaniyan, right wall
  9. Harmattan study No. 4, Kehinde Olaniyan, left wall
  10. Sixteen palms, Yewande Akinlade, right wall
  11. Blue hour, Dugbe, Tunde Afolabi-Coker, end wall
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Today's edition

Exhibition Room 4, until 28 February 2027

Indigo: a century of resist dye fills the Paper Room

Indigo rain over Mapo, Adebimpe Ogunleye, 2019. Indigo resist dye on hand-loomed cotton.
Fig. 2 Indigo rain over Mapo, Adebimpe Ogunleye, 2019. Indigo resist dye on hand-loomed cotton.

Sixty cloths, most of them made by women whose names were never written down, hang in the long galleries this season. They come from Ibadan, Abeokuta and Oshogbo compounds, from family chests and from the museum's own store, where some have waited forty years for the right light.

The show is arranged as the dyer works: the plain cloth, the starch paste or the tied thread, the pit, the drying line. A short film shows Adebimpe Ogunleye, whose wall pieces close the exhibition, at her vats in Abeokuta. Timed tickets are ₦8,000 and include the whole collection.

Read the full exhibition guide
1,840works in the collection
39years open in the old print works
14,500pupils on school visits last year (example)
11galleries over two floors, all step free
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What's on this season

All exhibitions and displays

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From the collection

Paintings, cloth, bronze and prints by artists who lived and worked in the South West. Every work here is on the walls this month.

Two sisters, Oke-Ado, Ifeoma Nwachukwu, 2018. Oil on canvas.
Fig. 3 Two sisters, Oke-Ado, Ifeoma Nwachukwu, 2018. Oil on canvas.
Agodi hills, evening, Musa Dankaro, 2016. Acrylic on canvas.
Fig. 4 Agodi hills, evening, Musa Dankaro, 2016. Acrylic on canvas.
Head of a trader, Bisola Adeyemo, 2015. Cast bronze on iroko base.
Fig. 5 Head of a trader, Bisola Adeyemo, 2015. Cast bronze on iroko base.
Night bus to Lagos, Kehinde Olaniyan, 2020. Acrylic and enamel on canvas.
Fig. 6 Night bus to Lagos, Kehinde Olaniyan, 2020. Acrylic and enamel on canvas.
Sixteen palms, Yewande Akinlade, 2022. Linocut on paper, edition of 12.
Fig. 7 Sixteen palms, Yewande Akinlade, 2022. Linocut on paper, edition of 12.
Okra and salt, Musa Dankaro, 2009. Oil on canvas board.
Fig. 8 Okra and salt, Musa Dankaro, 2009. Oil on canvas board.

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Classified: events this month

Talks

Curator's walk: Indigo

Sat 7 Nov, 11am. 25 places, 6 left. ₦3,000 with admission.

Workshops

Adire dye day

Sat 28 Nov, 10am to 3pm. Cloth, paste and indigo included. ₦15,000.

Families

Draw with one line

Sat 14 Nov, 10am. Ages 5 to 11 with a grown up. ₦4,000 per child.

Late Thursday

Music in the courtyard

Thu 12 Nov, 5pm to 8pm. Free. Highlife trio and zobo at the bar.

Film

The roof painter

Sat 21 Nov, 4pm. A 52 minute documentary on Afolabi-Coker. ₦2,500.

Members

Members' evening

Thu 10 Dec, 6pm. Private view of the print room. Free for members.

See the full calendar and book a place

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For schools and families

Young children sitting at a table during a school visit

School groups use the low tables in the Learning Room before and after the galleries.

"The pupils talked about the market painting all the way back to Bodija."

Example teacher, a primary school in Bodija

  • Guided visits from ₦1,000 per pupil, with a 45 minute workshop for ₦1,500 more
  • Free coach parking on Regent Close and a covered drop-off
  • Morning slots from 9.30am, so you are back before the afternoon traffic
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Letters to the editor

I came for the indigo show and stayed four hours. The rooms are cool even at 2pm and the guards actually know the works.

Funke, example visitor from Ring Road

We booked the Ruby Room for our company dinner. Setup, security and the generator were handled before we asked.

Example client, a logistics firm in Challenge

My daughter's school came on a Tuesday, then she brought me on Thursday evening because it was free. Now we are members.

Chinedu, example member

Membership

Become a Friend of the Regent

Free entry to every exhibition all year, members' evenings, 10 percent off in the shop and cafe, and first booking for workshops.

₦25,000 a year joint ₦40,000

Join today

AI phone line

Call our AI line, answered day and night in Nigerian English

Ask about opening hours, book tickets or a school slot, or check what is on this weekend. Anything it cannot answer goes to a person on the front desk the next morning.

+234 800 000 0239

Example details for this demo.

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Before you come

Step free

Ramps at both doors, a lift to the first floor, wheelchairs to borrow.

Audio guide

₦1,500 to hire, or free on your phone in English and Yoruba.

Courtyard cafe

Coffee, zobo, small chops and rice bowls from 10am.

Rest often

Benches in every room and a quiet room on the first floor.

Always cool

Solar and inverter power keep the rooms cool through outages.

Easy to find

Off Agodi Gate, ten minutes from Dugbe by taxi.

Can I take photographs?

Yes, without flash, for personal use, everywhere except the Indigo show, where cloth is light sensitive. Ask the desk about filming.

Is there parking?

About 60 free spaces on Regent Close and the Agodi Gardens side. On Late Thursdays it fills by 5.30pm, so a taxi or keke is easier.

Do I need to book?

Booking is wise for the Indigo show and on weekends. Walk-ins are welcome when there is space, and Thursday evenings need no ticket at all.

How do I pay?

Online by card or transfer through Receivly, or at the desk by card, POS or transfer. We do not take cash in the shop.

Stop press

Choose a day, a time and come in from the heat

Timed tickets keep the rooms calm. Pick a slot in under a minute, pay by card or transfer, and show the ticket on your phone at the door.

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