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Ninety seconds on Valletta Contemporary
As of November 2026, the gallery opens Wednesday to Saturday, from 14:00 to 19:00, and stays closed from Sunday to Tuesday. It also closes for the turn of the year, from 24 December to 9 January.
No. Sunday is one of its three closed days each week, along with Monday and Tuesday, so a weekend visit has to fall on Saturday afternoon.
Ring the gallery on +356 2124 1667 before setting out to check step-free access. The direct walk down from central Valletta uses the St Lucy Street steps.
Valletta Contemporary gives you new work by local and international contemporary artists, shown in a converted warehouse on East Street, away from the city's main centre.
The building is a 400-year-old former warehouse that once held a cooper's workshop. The conversion fitted modern exhibition rooms inside it and kept the original stonework, which stays in view around the art.
The gallery belongs to Valletta's 2018 year as a European Capital of Culture. Its roster of exhibitions and installations changes through the year, and the gallery homepage names the current show.
A free digital guide runs on Bloomberg Connects, an arts and culture app, with multimedia content from the artists and curators. Some works carry the app's icon and a lookup number beside them. Enter that number in the app to open the content for that piece.
The gallery stands at 15 to 17 East Street (Triq Lvant), half-way between Lower Barrakka Gardens and the two bridges above Victoria Gate. From central Valletta, go down the steps of St Lucy Street past St Paul's Shipwreck Church, then turn left.
Arriving by ferry from Sliema or the Three Cities, you walk no more than fifteen minutes from the landing to the door.
Inside, you move through whichever exhibition is running, room by room. Bring headphones if you plan to use the app guide.
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