The art works are beautifully displayed in an 1810 house with café and terrace. The architecture of Canonbury Square gives further reason to visit.

I had so much fun here! The temporary exhibition on Licini is informative and moving. There are six galleries and the paintings are rotated, so not all of the paintings from the collection are displayed at once. It’s a nice dose of art which is stimulating and not tiring. Makes it worth returning. The labels present information in a very captivating and in-depth way. My respect goes to the curators. I greatly enjoyed the coffee shop and the book shop. The prices in the book shop are surprisingly low. The gallery building and the garden are really pretty. Also, the bench designs go pretty hard and have no reason to be this good.

Always worth a visit, such a gem of a gallery. Impressive exhibition about the Ukrainian artist Archipenko, who influenced other artists from his chosen Parisian workplace. Great interaction especially with the Italian artists of the futurism movement. Beautifully curated juxtaposition of his works and others taking encouragement from his modern ideas. Sculptures seem still modern today but beautiful, too, not shocking anymore as at the time of their conception. Lovely restaurant with courtyard and great bookshop with postcards and gift ideas.

Very good gallery in a Georgian town house not far from Highbury and Islington Station. The gallery is dedicated to modern Italian art. It usually mounts 3 exhibitions a year together with showing work from the excellent Estorick collection of art produced during the first half of the 20th century. The gallery is currently (until 28 May) exhibiting outstanding work by the Bolognan artist Giorgio Morandi which I absolutely love. The building also houses a library, bookshop and a cafe with outdoor seating in a pleasant garden. Well worth a visit.

Wonderful opportunity to see all the permanent collection out on display. With bonus of Paul Coldwell's sculptures and poems. Great cafe too.

Great gallery with some amazing works. Current Archipenko exhibition is brilliantly thought out showing the Ukraine artists influence and influencers extremely well. Great combination of works.

Stunning small, quirky collection of c20 Italian futurist art. Housed in well done up house in drop dead gorgeous square of achingly pretty Canonbury. Good loos, super genuine Italian cafe with fine lasagne, very gluggable house red ,snacks etc. Do go, it's so worth it!

Quite a gem. 5 minutes walk from Islington & Highbury tube. Café with small selection but good food. Morandi was spectacular in its simplicity.

Found this wonderful gallery by pure serendipity, a lady asked me for the directions to get there. The current Tullio Crali exhibition is fabulous, I didn't know the artist and as I love the Futurist Movement, it was a real treat. All the staff are really friendly and helpful. Top marks.

Such a nice gallery to visit, right next to the lovely Canonbury Square.

One of our favorite places in London. The “Collection” is housed in a beautifully restored Georgian townhouse. Its six galleries have some of the best futurist works I have ever seen in one place. The figurative art and sculptures date from the 1890’s to 1950’s. Helpful Hint: Spend a relaxing hour or two visiting the galleries and then have a coffee and a pastel de nata in the cool outdoor café.

Lovely little gallery, fell madly in love with one piece in particular however they didnt have a little post card of it which was disappointing.

Friendly, well organised modest gallery on a few floors in Islington. Based on an Italian collection it has a strong Futurist feature. Staff are friendly and helpful and there is a pleasing shop. Handy for bus and tube.

Hidden tranquil gem just off Highbury Corner. Wonderful mainly 20th Century Italian Art. Lovely little cafe serving Italian dishes. Very long wait for table service when busy as lovely ever smiling waitress serves tables, washes dishes makes food and drinks single handed! Delicious when it arrives. Please provide her with some help !! Current Italian Threads Exhibition is a must. Very easy to get a slot on line.

Disappointed by exhibition. Staff in cafe aggressively rude. Would not recommend

Wonderful gallery, thoughtfully curated and very thought provoking

The Estorick Collection isn't vast, but it's quirky and interesting with an essential Italian flavour that certainly sets it apart. You'll find paintings, sculpture and drawings from the Italy of the 20th century, when dictators ruled most of Europe and the world was in turmoil because of them. Whether or not you believe (with the Futurists) that Venice should be bulldozed as part of the past we should all be better off without, doesn't really matter. There's enough here to keep you interested and it's mostly stuff you won't find elsewhere. The cafe is nice and so too, in the summer, is the garden.

Found myself near Canonbury Sq and visited Estorick Collection. I was graciously surprised by the building, the front garden setting with coffee shop, and the welcoming reception, to 3 floors of modernist and abstract art

A gorgeous wee gallery and so calm and quiet. Not LOADS to see but a nice collection (even for someone who doesn't totally understand modern art cafe!) And cafe looks gorgeous.

As usual, the current exhibition of Italian modern art is exceptional. The flow between the two principal rooms keeps us interested. It's easy to return and review the exhibits again. The permanent collection upstairs is a must see. An added bonus is the delightful café overlooking the garden. We return time and again to the Estorick

One of my favourite London galleries. An exceptional collection of Italian modern art, supplemented by two galleries on the ground floor displaying temporary exhibitions. A serene, soul-enriching and beautifully situated gem of a place.

Lovely lady on the reception desk. Explained where to go and what we would see. Free lockers but no petty rules about what you could wear or carry either. I wish the cafe had labels on the cake to say if they were suitable for vegetarians and maybe what they were in English as well! Quite a lot of stairs to see all the galleries.

Amazing little gallery with nice cafe only a short walk from the tube station, and you can look at the Union Chapel and Canonbury Square Gardens as well. The artifacts are very well displayed, you learn a lot about early 20th century Italian artists. Great way to spend a morning or afternoon, well worth the visit.

A very lovely setting for a small gallery on three floors with six rooms. There's a well stock bookshop and a cafe on the ground floor. Our visit was relaxed and it felt very comfortable. I have to be honest in that I expected more interesting pieces. What is there is great to see but there were (for me) only a few stand-out pieces. The fact that the collection exists is amazing and due credit to Estorick, and I daresay most of the finest pieces are on loan to other institutions. I can image on a bright spring or summer's day it's a perfect place to visit and be inspired and have coffee outside.

Good permanent and temporary exhibitions of early 20th century Italian modern art. Café and garden are really nice as well. But the book selection of the shop is basic.

A truly wonderful gallery. A superb collection of Italian art and sculpture with a special Morandi exhibition. This gallery educates visitors in a gentle and authoritative way. So unlike the dumbed down nonsense on offer in some more famous galleries. Visit! Enjoy!

The gallery has an enviable collection of modern Italian art beautifully displayed in a Georgian townhouse located in Canonbury Square/Islington. This incredible building also hosts a cafe shop, with a view of the front garden, serving authentic coffee and delicious cakes.

Small gallery devoted to Italian comtempry art. At the moment you have to book tickets in advance for a time slot.

Great little gems , love the cozy feeling for the space , great cafe,love it

A lovely little gallery. Well worth a visit. Some very interesting exhibits.

Best Italian art

A Beautiful small gallery, set up in a townhouse, that is easy to pass if you are not looking for it, as it almost feels hidden. Wonderful pieces of Italian art in a calm and serene setting. The time that we went was not busy so it was a great opportunity to study the art at leisure and without distractions. There is a cafe and shop to enjoy and a conservatory along with a small garden area.

Really nice little gallery hosting interesting exhibitions

Really nice museum. Good staff and excellent cafe/ restaurant with real Italian food.

Small, perfectly formed permanent gallery of early to mid 20th century avant-garde Italian art on two floors with, when I visited, also an exhibition of the Kiev-born Alexander Archipenko. A great way to spend an hour or two in Islington.

A delightful gem of a Gallery in Islington. Some great works from contemporary Italian artists and informative guide to the pieces. Well worth a visit.

Great exhibitions coming again soon

Exquisite

(Translated by Google) Remarkable exhibition (Original) Exposition remarquable

This was ok... took some time up on a Sunday afternoon...and I like looking at any sort of art.... Beautiful building, very nice staff and facilities, but questionable art... quite dark and eclectic, a bit too much, we were struggling to pick anything we liked... Aaand a bit pricey ticket fee. But overall had a good time.

Such a charming and peaceful little gallery. Not sure if I'm alone in this, but I found the accompanying write-up on the artists and their works almost as captivating as the art itself!

Always interesting collections. And a very good Italian cafeteria :)

The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is a wonderful place to visit and view six galleries. Saw the Giorgio Morandi exhibition, a truly worthwhile trip. Thank you. Child friendly. Didn't go to the cafe.

Really interesting exhibition on Futurist artist Crali, setting out his career from late 1920’s till late 1980’s. Also, the gallery is small and friendly- no one to stop you taking photos, and there’s plenty of space and time to sit down and reflect. Little shop and a licensed cafe which looks like it will be brilliant in warm weather when they can open the doors onto the garden. A little oasis in Islington.

Went at opening time. Completely filled by huge tour group. Unable to see exhibition at all. Wasted trip.

Excellent textile, etc exhibition. A delightful small gallery with great facilities and charming staff/ vulunteers.

This is a lovely little gallery showing excellent exhibitions. It also has a great coffee shop.

Lovely cozy venue where has unique architecture. You will spend time with admiring great Italian artists works and people from this gallery are kind. Plus there are various plants in the garden, will visit again for coffee and food:)

Excellent - fab art and nice garden for lunch!

The Estorick Collection of Modern Art situated in a Georgian building just off Canonbury Square is one of my favourite art galleries. Although small I never tire of the ever-changing permanent collection which runs the entire gamut of 20th century Italian art from the futurists such as Balla, Severini (his pointillistic Boulevard of 1910-11 is one of the true highlights of Italian art) and Boccioni to the supreme equine sculptures of Marino Marini, the (literally) potty female forms of Campigli or the still-lives of Morandi. But there are also temporary exhibitions which rarely fail to prove enlightening such as the resurrected survey of the life and works of Tulio Crali, a sort of futurist born in Zadar, Croatia whose mesmerising vision of a pilot descending into a whirlwind of skyscrapers is one of the many high points of this exhibition. A sort of earlier Italian version of Peter Lanyon perhaps? Collages of machinery, a flurry of bits of human anatomy in a mask and a room of bizarre sculptures made out of found objects also feature.

(Translated by Google) Delightful place (Original) Posto delizioso

Full of wonder :)

Unfortunately I came all the way from central London on 29 Dec. and it was closed until 8 Jan. But it is not mentioned anywhere....

Tucked away between busy Highbury & Islington and Essex Rd - such a wonderful collection and building. I went for the Lithographs of Leningrad which left you wanting to see more. Very friendly staff and I loved the fact it was small and quiet. Cafe looked so inviting after cycling in the cold rain and offered tasty looking Italian food aswell as the usual! Am looking forward to going again to see the Futurist exhibition.

Very interesting. Good exhibition, well curated. The notes and information boards were very helpful. We went for the temporary exhibition of Russian Art, which was brilliant. All the art on display was hugely impressive. The place itself is a converted house. Lots of small rooms spread over four creaky floors. Some of the people browsing when we were there were total bloody poseurs, casually chatting in very loud voices so that everyone could hear just how sophisticated they were. It is a shame that interesting places are such magnets for painfully loud people. All the hard surfaces amplify every sound. And the small scale of the rooms put us all too close together. Still, it takes all sorts...

My dream comes true! I've wanted to see one of my favourite sculptors for a long time after seeing a picture of Umberto Boccioni's Continuity in Space. For those who are obsessed with Art like me this is a lovely museum to visit. It is in a small beautiful Georgian house in Islington and holds mainly Italian and Russian art and has a shop selling mostly art books and an Italian cafe where you can have coffee and cake etc. Very easy to get to from Highbury and Islington station, 5mins walk. Recommended for art lovers.

So Italian

(Translated by Google) The exhibition Umberto Boccioni: Recreating the Lost Sculptures by the Swedish A. Rådén (autumn 2019) worth seeing. (Original) Utställningen Umberto Boccioni: Recreating the Lost Sculptures av svensken A. Rådén (höst 2019) värd att se.

Monday evening drawing classes are a very good value option to chill and get the practise going! Good ambiance, confortable space and very well connected location! It will definitely repeat!

Pleasant building but the art collection is sloppy and a bit ugly. I'm so not into a lot of modernism for those reasons.

Great place to visit

A small gallery with 6 rooms concentrating.on 20th century Italian art. It has collection and temporary exhibitions.

Cute gallery. Favourite piece by Russolo 'musica'

(Translated by Google) Exhibition of high artistic level, magnificent works of art (Original) Mostra di alto livello artistico, opere d'arte magnifiche

(Translated by Google) Tullio Crali's exhibition will be a great event (Original) La mostra di Tullio Crali sarà un grande evento

Nice small collection were to admire some piece of the fathers of the Italian Modern Art

My dream comes true! I've wanted to see one of my favourite sculptors for a long time after seeing a picture of Umberto Boccioni's Continuity in Space. For those who are obsessed with Art like me this is a lovely museum to visit.

The permanent collection changes regularly, which by itself makes it worth visiting at least once a year. Exhibitions are usually small (a couple for large rooms), but well curated. Bonus: the food at the café is lovely, as is the seating area in the garden.

Fantastic exhibition of their collection with extensive background detail.

Lovely gallery. Truly interesting artwork. Tulio Cralli exhibition at the moment, outstanding.

Outstanding collection in a beautiful Regency mansion. Highly recommended.

Visited the Estorick Collection to see the Tullio Crali exhibition yesterday. Absolutely brilliant. Well laid out and informative but also small and friendly. A really wonderful hour or so, I was fully absorbed. I have been to the Estorick once before and had an equally enjoyable time.

Don't like to type long reviews but this place is definitely worth a visit!

Great Gallery specialized in Italian art. I had the chance to watch a beautiful exhibition about Campari Soda advertising.

Nice and probably not very well known gem with (in my modest and lay opinion) a few unmissable masterpieces of Italian 20th century art. Very interesting!

Always something interesting. Cafe makes fresh light lunches. And , come summer, there's the hidden garden.

Beautiful gallery. Small but impressive and worth a visit. Friendly staff.