Smartify, our free audio guide

Smartify, our free audio guide

Download the app, scan the art, uncover the story.

Find things you love and discover remarkable artworks and objects with our Smartify audio and video tours.

Smartify hosts tours featuring stop off points with in-depth audio recordings, stories and films, helping you to learn more about our history, art, architecture and exhibitions.

If you're planning on visiting we recommend you download the app before you arrive, or you can easily download it using our free WIFI once onsite. Our staff and volunteers are on hand to help.

New to Smartify?

Go directly to: https://app.smartify.org/en-GB/venues/watts-gallery or:

1. Go to the Apple App Store or Android Google Play store.

2. Download the Smartify app.

3. Open the app and hold your phone camera up to your chosen artwork.

4. Plug in your headphones, and listen to the audio tour.

Alternatively, you scan the QR code on the walls and enjoy the selected audio content.

Tours on Smartify

The outside of Watts Gallery with flower bed in foreground

BSL Tour of Watts Gallery

A British Sign Language Tour of Watts Gallery - Artists' Village. This tour features the Historic Gallery, The De Morgan Collection, The Temporary Exhibition Space and Watts Sculpture Gallery.
Black and white panelled building with trees

The Limnerslease House Tour

Discover more about the Wattses life here; how they spent their days, the visitors and friends they had to stay, what they were reading and at times. Using extracts from Mary’s diary, you will gain a unique insight into the personal lives of these two great artists.
A women and her daughter look at a gallery map in the Sculpture Gallery

Family Favourites at Watts Gallery

What stories do our artworks have to tell? Learn about some of the favourites from our collection.
A visitor views a gold-framed painting in the Historic Galleries, in the background are more paintings on a blue wall and the stone statue, Aurora.

Highlights of the Historic Galleries

From early social realist scenes to celebrated portrait commissions, complex Symbolist paintings to ambitious sculptures, the Historic Galleries trace the evolution of G F Watts's art over a prolific 70-year career.
A view of the De Morgan Gallery looking towards Evelyn De Morgan's paintings, with a glass display case containing works by William De Morgan in the centre of the room

William and Evelyn De Morgan

Evelyn's paintings are filled with deeply personal symbols and can be read as her own Spiritualist devotion. Her husband William however was more interested in the decorative elements of design motifs from across time and the globe.

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