Synonyms of gallery

gallery

noun

ˈga-lə-rē 

1

as in museum

a building or part of a building in which objects of interest are displayed

visited an array of art galleries while on vacation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• museum
• exhibition
• library
• collection
• archives
• display
• salon
• studio
• assemblage

2

as in hallway

a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building

the guest rooms in the east wing rooms open up onto a long windowed gallery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hallway
• corridor
• passageway
• concourse
• hall
• cloister
• piazza
• arcade
• loggia
• breezeway

3

as in porch

Southern & Midland a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building

a big old house with a wraparound gallery just made for a line of rocking chairs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• porch
• piazza
• veranda
• portico
• stoop
• lanai
• sunroom
• solarium
• sleeping porch
• sunporch
• galilee
• porte cochere

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gallery

View gallery - 11 images The humble shipping container is little more than a basic metal box, but designers and architects never seem to run out of ideas for what to do with it. — New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026

Cattelan duct-taped a banana to a wall, Hirst put a shark in a tank of formaldehyde, and Duchamp put a urinal in a gallery and signed with a fake name. — Lis Anderson, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

The lawsuit also accuses two men in Peru of painting a series of works purportedly signed by Warhol and arranging for the canvases to be shipped to Roberts’s gallery. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Things are suddenly different, starting at work, where the gallery director confesses to noticing him for the first time and a punky feminist artist requests his involvement in her upcoming show. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026