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Stoke-on-Trent / Royaume-Uni

Stoke-on-Trent est une ville britannique située jadis dans le Staffordshire mais qui constitue une autorité unitaire depuis 1997. Elle a le statut de Cité. Sa population est estimée à 260 000 habitants . La ville se découpe en plusieurs quartiers : le centre-ville étant Hanley ; Fenton ; Longton ; Burslem ; Tunstall ; Stoke-upon-Trent. On y trouve le principal campus de l'Université du Staffordshire, qui regroupe environ 14 000 étudiants.

Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Stoke-on-Trent / Royaume-Uni

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is in Bethesda Street, Hanley, one of the six towns of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. Admission is free. One of the four local authority museums in the City, the other three being Gladstone Pottery Museum, Ford Green Hall and Etruria Industrial Museum, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery houses collections that bring together the identities that went into forming the area known as the Potteries. The museum holds a collection of Staffordshire ceramics. All the collections at this museum are categorized as Designated Collections. Galleries display fine and decorative arts, costume, local history, archaeology and natural science collections. There is a second world war aircraft on permanent display, a Supermarine Spitfire whose earlier Marks were designed by R. J. Mitchell who came from nearby Butt Lane.