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Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, trading as Museums Sheffield, was a charity created in 1998 to run Sheffield City Council’s non-industrial museums and galleries. Museums Sheffield managed three sites in the city: Graves Art Gallery, Millennium Gallery and Weston Park Museum. [3] Its offices were located at Leader House on Surrey Street ...
The Millennium Gallery from Arundel Gate Entrance from the Winter Garden. The Millennium Gallery is an art gallery and museum in the centre of Sheffield, England.Opened in April 2001 as part of Sheffield's Heart of the City project, it is located in the city centre close to the mainline station, the Central Library and Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, and Sheffield Theatres.
The museum is home to one of the longest serving weather stations in the country, providing data on Sheffield's weather since 1882. [5] Weston Park museum receives around 250,000 visitors a year and was nominated for the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize in 2007. In 2008 the museum won The Guardian's Family Friendly Museums award. [6]
The museum suffered heavily in the Sheffield flood of July 2007 with water over a metre deep inundating the site, causing £1.5 million of damage. Paintings by William Cowen and Henry Perlee Parker, a drawing master at Sheffield's Wesleyan College, were some of the objects damaged by the floodwater. [9]
Paintings in the three galleries run by Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust. Pages in category "Paintings in Sheffield Museums" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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Pages in category "Museums in Sheffield" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The new buildings for the South Kensington Museum gave further scope for the exercise of Sykes's powers, and upon the decoration of these he was engaged until his death. His most admired work at the museum, according to the Dictionary of National Biography is the series of terra-cotta columns which he modelled for the lecture theatre. His ...