Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust

Шеффилд

Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, known as Museums Sheffield is a charity created in 1998 to run Sheffield City Council’s non-industrial museums and galleries. Museums Sheffield currently manages three sites in the city: Graves Art Gallery, Millennium Gallery and Weston Park Museum. It is run from offices at Leader House on Surrey Street. The trust is responsible for the care of the city's historic collections, including visual and decorative art, social history, archaeology and natural sciences. Its mission is 'to connect with our visitors, share stories about Sheffield and the wider world, and care for the city's collections'.

Bury Art Museum

Бери

Bury Art Museum is a public museum and art gallery in the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, northern England, owned by Bury Council.Formerly known as Bury Museum and Art Gallery, it was renamed Bury Art Museum in 2011. The museum is home to the Wrigley Collection, an assemblage of over two hundred oil paintings, watercolours, prints and ceramics accumulated by the Victorian paper manufacturer Thomas Wrigley . The collection includes works by Turner, Constable, and Landseer. The donation of his collection to Bury was the impetus for the foundation and construction of the museum and art gallery. The building was designed by the Manchester firm of Woodhouse and Willoughby. Donations of artworks quickly followed its opening on 9 October 1901 by the Earl of Derby, including donations from the town's Member of Parliament James Kenyon. In 2005, a £1.2 million refurbishment was carried out, designed to provide a brand new museum, art gallery and library all under one roof. This includes a combined Museum and Archives Centre which, based on a radical re-think, uses artefacts, documentation and art to tell the story of the town. The most recent renovation includes modern artefacts such as iPods and electric iRobot vacuum cleaners. The council decided in 2006 to sell Lowry's painting The Riverbank at auction in order to fund part of its social services budget shortfall. This has resulted in the government's Museums, Libraries and Archives Council removing Bury Council's accredited museum status. The authority will now have limited funding options and will be ineligible for some grants.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Бирмингем

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history.The museum/gallery is run by Birmingham Museums Trust, the largest independent museums trust in the United Kingdom, which also runs eight other museums around the city. Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee.

Картинная галерея и музей Герберта

Ковентри

Картинная галерея и музей Герберта — музей, художественная галерея, архив, учебный центр, медиа-студия и центр творчества в городе Ковентри, Англия. Музей назван в честь сэра Альфреда Герберта , местного промышленника и филантропа, чьи пожертвования позволили открыть музей в 1960 году; строительство началось в 1939 году, но в связи со Второй мировой войной затянулось. В 2008 году музей вновь открылся после ремонта стоимостью в 14 миллионов фунтов стерлингов; в 2010 году музей и галерею посетили более 300 000 человек.

Towner Gallery

Истборн

Towner Art Gallery is located in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on the south coast of England. It hosts one of the most significant public art collections in the South of England and draws over 100,000 visitors a year. It was described by ITV News as "the region's biggest art gallery", in 2017.It was established with a bequest in 1920, from John Chisholm Towner who had served as a local alderman. It was first homed in Manor Gardens, adjacent to Gildredge Park in the Old Town area of Eastbourne. Opening there in 1923, it closed when the building was sold in 2005. In 2009, it re-opened in a purpose-built facility adjacent to the Congress Theatre, near Eastbourne's seafront.

Музей и художественная галерея Дерби

Дерби (Англия)

Музе́й и худо́жественная галере́я Де́рби — музей, основанный в 1836 году совместно с Центральной библиотекой Дерби в специально построенном здании по проекту Ричарда Нилла Фримена и пожертвованный городу Майклом Томасом . В музее представлено множество картин Джозефа Райта , продукция Royal Crown Derby. Кроме того, в музее собраны коллекции археологических , естественнонаучных , исторических , геологических и военных объектов, а также коллекция фарфоровых изделий из Дерби и его окрестностей , картины Луизы Рэйнер, её отца Самуэля Рэйнера, Эрнста Таунсенда, Альфреда Джона Кина, Эрнста Эллиса Кларка, Дэвида Пейна, Джорджа Тёрнера, Уильяма Кофе, Джона Хаслема, Клауда Томаса Стенфилда Мура, Джорджа Хольцендорфа, Рональда Поупа, Бенджамина Уэста , Генри Ларка Пратта, Франка Бересфорда, Кристофера Хофланда, Джебуса Шеннона, Альфреда Уолмарка, Томаса Кресвика и других. В коллекции есть и объекты, не связанные непосредственно с историей региона — например, маски Татануа. Историю музея можно отсчитывать от основания «Городского и графского музея и естественнонаучного общества Дерби» 10 февраля 1836 года, первым президентом которого стал Джордж Харпер-Кру. Изначально это было закрытое сообщество, основанное на подписке его членов . В коллекцию изначально были внесены минералы и чучела птиц. В 1964 году музей и арт-галерея были переведены в новое здание, но здание библиотеки продолжает быть разделено с этими организациями. В 2011 году Фонд Викимедиа и Музей Дерби и художественная галерея открыли совместный проект по улучшению Википедии, в рамках которого за написание и улучшение статей, связанных с музеем, весной-летом 2011 года будут вручены призы. Тексты написанных в рамках проекта статей будут доступны посетителям музея через QR-коды с помощью системы QRpedia.

Dorset County Museum

Дорчестер

The Dorset County Museum is located in Dorchester, Dorset, England. Founded in 1846, the museum covers the county of Dorset's history and environment. The current building was built in 1881 on the former site of the George Inn. The building was designed specifically to house the museum's collection and is in the neo-Gothic style. The museum includes information and over 2 million artifacts associated with archaeology , geology , history, local writers and natural science. There are video displays, activity carts for children, and an audio guide. The collections include fossilised dinosaur footprints, Roman mosaics and original Thomas Hardy manuscripts.

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Уоррингтон

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery is on Bold Street in the Cultural Quarter of Warrington in a Grade II listed building that it shares with the town's Central Library. The Museum and the Library originally opened in 1848 as the first rate-supported library in the UK, before moving to their current premises in 1858. The art galleries were subsequently added in 1877 and 1931. Operated by Culture Warrington, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery has the distinction of being one of the oldest municipal museums in the UK and much of the quintessential character of the building has been preserved.

Brotherton Library

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The Brotherton Library is a 1936 Grade II listed Beaux-Arts building with some art deco fittings, located on the main campus of the University of Leeds. It was designed by the firm of Lanchester & Lodge, and is named after Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton, who in 1927 donated £100,000 to the university as funding for its first purpose-built library. The Brotherton Library is a hub in what has become Leeds University Library. Initially, it contained all of the university's books and manuscripts, with the exception of books housed in the separate Medical Library and Clothworkers' Library. Its contents cover the main collections in arts and languages and the Special Collections' Research Centre. It also houses part of the University Library's administration. Science, engineering and social science research collections are located in the Edward Boyle Library, opened in 1975. The Laidlaw Library opened in 2015 contains core texts for undergraduates and a high demand collection. The Health Sciences Library, housed in the Worsley Building since 1977, contains the University Library's medical and related collections, with a small satellite library at St James's University Hospital. Leeds University Library is also responsible for the University Archives, the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, the Treasures Gallery and the International Textile Collection.