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Queer Britain, the UK’s first and only LGBTQ+ museum, opens its latest exhibition, Top, by Claye Bowler, alongside displays from the Museum of Transology.
Top at Queer Britain
This exhibition, disguised as a museum store, uses Bowler’s experience as a museum registrar to create an archive of his seven-year journey through the UK’s healthcare system to access gender-affirming top surgery – from the artist’s first visit to a GP to his recovery after surgery revisions.
Top Comprises drawings, films, photographs, letters, sculptures, and collected objects. The installation explores the political priorities of museum collecting, entering the emotions and physicality of being trans into a fictionalised archive. This display, which brings together the full installation for the first time since it was originally shown at the Henry Moore Institute in 2022, is supported by the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund.
Claye Bowler, the artist, said: “When creating Top, I initially thought it was about dysphoria, but through sharing it and engaging with visitors during its first showing, I realised it’s actually a celebration of being trans and overcoming struggle. I’m excited to share the work again with Queer Britain visitors, allowing people to experience this joy again. The work also comments on queerness in a museum context, of the purpose of museums, and of collecting objects. As the first museum dedicated to LGBTQ+ stories, Queer Britain offers the perfect context for this work to resonate and question these ideas.
Displays from Museum of Transology
Queer Britain are exhibiting some displays from the Museum of Transology alongside Top to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Pride March.
The Museum of Transology has the UK’s most significant collection of objects representing trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives.
Visting information
The Top exhibition run through to 23 November 2025. Queer Britain is open Wednesday – Sunday, 12pm to 6pm.
Admission is by ‘Pay What You Can’ donation, and tickets can be booked in advance at queerbritain.org.uk.
Queer Britain is located at 2 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London, N1C 4BH.
