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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Terrace Rpad
Buxton
Derbyshire SK17 6DA
Tel: 01298 24658
Website:
www.derbyshire.gov.uk
Distance: Approx. 15 miles
Opening Times: Tuesday - Friday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday: 9.30am - 5.00pm
Closed on Sunday and Monday
Mainly local information and displays by local artists.
Admission free. |
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Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
Bold Street
Warrington
Cheshire WA1 1JG
Tel: 01925 442392
Distance: Approx. 20 miles
Opening Times: Monday - Friday: 10.00am - 5.30pm
Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Closed on Sunday
Local information and displays but also exhibitions by reknowned artists.
Admission free. |
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| Galleries |
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Terrace Rpad
Buxton
Derbyshire SK17 6DA
Tel: 01298 24658
Website:
www.derbyshire.gov.uk
Distance: Approx. 15 miles
Opening Times: Tuesday - Friday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday: 9.30am - 5.00pm
Closed on Sunday and Monday
Mainly local information and displays by local artists.
Admission free. |
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Castlefield Gallery
2 Hewitt Street
Knott Mill
Manchester M15 4GB
Tel: 0161 832 8034
Website:
www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk
Distance: Approx. 13 miles
Opening Times: Wednesday; Friday; Saturday and Sunday: 1.00pm - 6.00pm
Thursday: 1.00pm - 8.00pm
Designed by award winning Manchester architects, a purpose built space for exhibitions. |
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Chinese Arts Centre
39 - 43 Edge Street
Manchester M4
Tel: 0161 832 7271
Distance: Approx. 14 miles
Opening Times: Everyday: 10.30am - 4.30pm
Features exhibitions of Chinese arts and crafts.
Admission free |
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Lady Lever Art Gallery
Port Sunlight Village
Wirral CH62 5EQ
Tel: 0151 645 3623
Distance: Approx. 38 miles
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Sunday: 12noon - 5.00pm
Created as a memorial to Lady Lever by her husband, the Sunlight Soap magnate, William Hesketh Lever.
Principal collections are 18th and 19th century English paintings and sculpture. 17th to 19th century furniture, Wedgewood pottery and Chinese porcelain are also on display.
Facilities include a cafe and a shop.
Admission free. |
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Manchester City Art Gallery
Mosley Street
Manchester M2 3JL
Tel: 0161 235 8888
Website:
www.manchestergalleries.org
Distance: Approx. 14 miles
Opening Times: Tuesday - Sunday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Closed: January 1st; Good Friday; December 24th-26th and 31st.
Collection covers everything from early continental painters to Gainsborough, Blake, Constable and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Admission free |
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Metropolitan Art Galleries
Manchester Metropolitan University
All Saints
Oxford Road
Manchester M13
Tel: 0161 247 1708
Distance: Approx. 11.5 miles
Opening Times: Monday - Friday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Three galleries in the university exhibition department displaying degree shows and other examples of progressive work of a high standard.
Admission free. |
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Salford Art Gallery
Peel Park
The Crescent
Salford
Manchester M5
Tel: 0161 736 2649
Opening Times: Monday - Friday: 10.00am - 4.45pm
Saturday - Sunday: 1.00pm - 5.00pm
Originally this gallery displayed the works of L.S.Lowry which have now been transferred to The Lowry.
There are still exhibits of lesser known artists and there is a re-creation of a Victorian street which is popular with children.
Admission free. |
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Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery
Wellington Road South (on the corner of Greek Street)
Stockport SK3 8AB
Tel: 0161 474 4453
Distance: Approx. 7.5 miles
Opening Times: Monday; Tuesday; Thursday and Friday: 11.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Closed on Wednesday and Sunday
Paintings and sculpture of national and regional importance.
Also frequent visiting exhibitions.
Admission free |
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Sudley House
Mossley Hill Road
Aigburth
Liverpool L18 8BX
Tel: 0151 724 3245
Distance: Approx. 35 miles
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Sunday: 12noon - 5.00pm
The shipping magnate, George Holt's Collection of art in the house that he lived in. The collection concentrates on nineteenth century British art but also includes Italian works and paintings by Gainsborough, Turner and others.
Magnificent George Buller furniture is also on display.
A tea room is open at weekends.
Admission free. |
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The Chancellor's Building
Keele University
Keele
Staffordshire ST5 5BG
Tel: 01782 583376
Website:
www.keele.ac.uk/depts/rd/exhib.html
Distance: Approx. 46 miles
Opening Times: 10.00am - 8.00pm daily
Contemporary work in a variety of media by nationally acclaimed local and regional artists.
Admission free. |
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The Cornerhouse
Oxford Road
Manchester M1
Tel: 0161 200 1500
Website:
www.cornerhouse.org.uk
Distance: Approx. 11.5 miles
Opening Times: Tuesday - Saturday: 11.00am - 6.00pm
Sunday: 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Three galleries exhibiting a rolling programme of contemporary art.
There is also a bar, a vegetarian restaurant and a shop.
Admission free. |
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The Lowry
Pier 8
Salford Quays
Manchester M17
Tel: 0161 876 2020
Website:
www.thelowry.com
Opening Times: The Gallery: Monday - Wednesday: 11.00am - 5pm
Thursday; Saturday - Sunday: 11.00am - 8.00pm
Friday: 11.00am - 10pm
A newly built building to commemorate the life of L. S. Lowry and exhibit a wide variety of his work.
Other modern and contemporary art is also displayed and there are up to 16 specific exhibitions each year.
The building also houses two theatres, an interactive exhibition, a restaurant, a bookshop and other facilities.
The buildings are open every day: 9.30am - midnight.
The interactive exhibition, called The Artworks, is open: Sunday - Wednesday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday - Saturday: 10.00am - 8.00pm
Admission to the building and galleries is free.
Admission the the Artworks is: ?3.75 (Free for under 4s)
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The Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
Liverpool L3 4BB
Tel: 0151 702 7400
Website:
www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
Distance: Approx. 35 miles
Opening Times: Tuesday - Sunday: 10.00am - 5.30pm
Closed on Mondays, December 23rd - 26th and January 1st
Opened in 1998 in a converted warehouse on Albert Dock.
Home of the largest collection of modern art in the North of England.
A redevelopment scheme using lottery money in 1996 has resulted in new galleries and other facilities being added.
There is a cafe and a shop in the gallery
Admission is free although there is a charge for special exhibitions. |
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The Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool L3 8EL
Tel: 0151 478 4199
Distance: Approx. 35 miles
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Sunday: 12noon - 5.00pm
One of the finest collections of fine and decorative art in Europe. The collection covers six centuries of art.
The gallery has recently had a major refurbishment.
Facilities include a cafe and a shop.
Admission free. |
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University of Liverpool Art Gallery
Abercrombie Square
Liverpool L69 3BX
Tel: 0151 794 2347/8
Distance: Approx. 35 miles
Opening Times: Opening hours: Monday,Tuesday and Thursday: 12noon - 2pm
Wednesday and Friday: 12noon - 4pm
Closed at weekends, Bank Holidays and in the month of August.
Fine and decorative arts from the university's collection, on display in a Georgian house in the centre of the city. Works include those of Turner, Burne-Jones, Augustus John, Lucien Freud and Elizabeth Frink.
Admission free |
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Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
Bold Street
Warrington
Cheshire WA1 1JG
Tel: 01925 442392
Distance: Approx. 20 miles
Opening Times: Monday - Friday: 10.00am - 5.30pm
Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Closed on Sunday
Local information and displays but also exhibitions by reknowned artists.
Admission free. |
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Whitworth Art Gallery
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M 15 6ER
Tel: 0161 275 7450
Distance: Approx. 11.5 miles
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm Sunday: 2.00pm - 5.00pm
website: www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth
email: whitworth@manchester.ac.uk
Displays cover just about every field of the arts and aim not only to display but also to inform. The gallery houses one of the great collections of British watercolours and also excellent works by modern and contemporary artists. Textiles, prints and wallpapers are on display.
There is a cafe and shop on site.
Admission free. |
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