Advantages: The Art! The Architecture! Fully accessible for all! Free entry! Disadvantages: Very Tiring.
The Walker ArtGallery in Liverpool boasts one of the largest art collections in England. My 12 year old niece chose this as a venue for a day out in the school holidays. It had been some years since I visited previously and I had quite forgotton just how impressive it is. We had a lovely (and tiring) day and my niece returned home inspired.
As you approach the gallery situated on William Brown Street, you are struck by the sheer grandeur of the gallery and its neighbouring buildings. William Brown street is the only street in Great Britain to contain nothing but than Museums, Galleries and Libraries. Directly outside the Walker ArtGallery is the grand Steble fountain , a circular stone basin with a bronze centrepiece depicting the four seasons ? a good photo opportunity.
The Walker ArtGallery has a neo-classical façade ...
York has a plethora of artgalleries, mostly in private hands and some under municipal control. York artgallery, located in exhibition square, in the centre of York, is a York City Council owned gallery, and has recently been refurbished to the tune of nearly half a million pounds, from the heritage lottery fund and was reopened a couple of months ago by the city's Lord Mayor.
The collection features works spanning 600 years from British and European art displayed in themed areas under the headings of people, places, stories, devotion, and morality. This is an interesting way of organising the works on display, and a seemingly increasing trend amongst gallery collections over recent decades, one that I first experienced at the Tate Modern in London.
The Tate Modern were the first major collection in this country, to my knowledge ...
Advantages: Free Entry, Good Exhibits Disadvantages: On The Third Floor, Lifts Not Always Working
The Graves ArtGallery is one of several Galleries in Sheffield that is owned by the City Council and because of this access is and always has been free. It is located right in the heart of Sheffield City Centre, above the City's Library on the third floor, just around the corner from one of the City's other Galleries, the Millennium Galleries. Together these two Galleries now form a part of the City's Tudor Square Cultural Complex.
The Graves ArtGallery was founded in 1934 through the generosity of a local entrepreneur called Alderman J. G. Graves who donated his entire collection of Art to the local Council so that it would be displayed for future generations to see and enjoy.
The collection that Grave's had amassed was an extensive one that stretched from 16th century Paintings right through to Modern Art from the present ...
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