Bury Art Gallery
Bury Category - Art Galleries & Dealers
At Bury Art Gallery you'll find world-famous Victorian paintings, challenging contemporary art and mysterious objects.
The art gallery in Bury was specially built to house the Wrigley Collection, over 200 oil paintings, watercolours, prints and ceramics collected by local Bury paper manufacturer Thomas Wrigley.
The Bury Art Gallery, Museum and Archives building was created through the generosity of this local papermaker Thomas Wrigley and developed by further gifts to the collections.
The Art gallery still offer opportunities for businesses and local people to help enhance the collections, events and exhibitions. Staff are actively collecting contemporary art, works relating to the Wrigley Collection and historic objects from Bury's Six Towns.
Please contact the Gallery on
0161 253 5878
if you have something you think might benefit the collections.
The oil paintings include classics such as:
- Turner's Calais Sands
- Landseer's The Random Shot
- Constable's Hampstead Heath
- Clausen's Spring Morning: Haverstock Hill
- and many more...
There are also 20th century paintings by artists such as Pasmore and Burra, and a growing selection of contemporary artists.
Changing exhibitions
Our programme of temporary exhibitions offers something for everyone. Please see the events page on The Best of Bury for more details!
In the gallery, visitors can experience the best of local, regional, national and international art, photography and craft.
The Bury Art Gallery and Museum has a wide-ranging programme of activities and events to accompany the exhibitions and collections.
Collections
The staff at Bury Art Gallery + Museum are continuously working to develop exciting new exhibitions and events, alongside this they also work hard to develop access to the collections.
The Bury curatorial team have been involved in a project that has culminated in the creation of a 'NICE Paintings' website, which contains nearly 8,000 records and over 2,500 images from 200 museums across the UK.
This is the first phase of the National Inventory Research Project's aim of creating a searchable illustrated inventory of all 22,000 pre-1900 Continental European oil paintings in the UK's public collections.
Family friendly
Children and their carers are welcome and the gallery are developing new family friendly activities all the time. Look out for the activities in the museum and gallery such as the 'Picture Bags', which are all free to use.
Highly Recommended under the category: Art Galleries & Dealers - Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives
Educational Visits
Bury Art Gallery, Museum and Archive is a fabulous learning resource and is the ideal place for a group visit. The gallery offer workshops to school and college covering a range of topics and themes.
Businesses can benefit from a link to one of Bury's most popular cultural organisations by hiring one of our spaces for corporate events or by sponsoring an exhibition.
Admission FREE
Opening times for the art gallery and museum are as follows:
Tuesday - Friday: 10am - 5pm, Saturday: 10am - 4.30pm.
We are closed Sunday, Monday and Bank Holidays (unless otherwise advertised)
If you would like further information, please contact:
Bury Art Gallery, Museum and Archives
Moss Street
Bury
BL9 0DR
Telephone: 0161 253 5878
Fax: 0161 253 5857
E-mail: artgallery@bury.gov.uk
or Click Here for our website
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