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The New Art Gallery Walsall is a modern and contemporary art gallery in the town of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England.It was built with £21 million of public funding, including £15.75 million from the UK National Lottery and additional money from the European Regional Development Fund and City Challenge.
The collection was donated to the people of Walsall in 1973 and opened to the public in July 1974. It was originally exhibited in what was the first floor reference room of Walsall Library. The collection was moved to its new purpose-built home over two floors of The New Art Gallery Walsall, and opened to the public in this new setting in 2000.
The holdings of Walsall Museum ranged from seventeenth-century firemarks to twenty-first century posters. There was also a large collection of costume and textiles; notably The Hodson Shop Collection, a unique collection of unsold shop stock of working-class clothing dating from the 1920s to the 1960s. The museum closed permanently in March ...
Art: Gallery for media arts Walsall Leather Museum: Walsall: Walsall: Industry: Former Victorian leather factory, history of the local leather and saddle-making trades Warwick Arts Centre: Coventry: Coventry: Art: Multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick, events in contemporary and classical music, drama, dance, comedy, films and ...
Walsall's new art gallery. In January 2010, it was announced that the Illuminations had been permanently scrapped and would be replaced by other events such as concerts and laser shows throughout the year. [49] The existing lights would be sold off where possible to interested parties.
This gave space for a gallery containing the Garman Ryan collection, and was called the E.M.Flint Gallery after the chairman of the Library and Art Gallery Committee. A new children's and music library was also added to the building. In 1999 the Garman Ryan collection moved to Walsall's New Art Gallery.
Walsall Leather Museum; Walsall Museum; Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery This page was last edited on 1 January 2022, at 16:32 (UTC). Text ...
The New Art Gallery Walsall: 1943-45 Sculpture: Bronze: Modelled by Betty Peters [224] Yehudi Menuhin: Te Papa, Wellington: 1943 Head: Bronze: 260 x 470 x 202mm Twelve casts, plaster at The New Art Gallery Walsall, formerly at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) [1] [225] [226] Lucifer: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: 1944–45 Statue: Bronze: 3 ...