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Touchstones Rochdale seen from Broadfield Park. Touchstones Rochdale is an art gallery, museum, local studies centre, visitor information centre and café forming part of the Central Library, Museum and Art Gallery in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. [1]
The Pioneers rented their first store at 31 Toad Lane and moved out in 1867 but the co-operative movement later purchased it, and opened it as a museum in 1931. [14] [15] The museum is known as The Rochdale Pioneers Museum.
Rochdale Pioneers Museum; T. Touchstones Rochdale This page was last edited on 29 September 2022, at 20:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This list of museums in Greater Manchester, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
2009: Made in Africa: portrait of an Ife ruler, The Manchester Museum; 2010: The Global Africa Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York; 2010: The shape of things at Flow, London; 2010: Taslim Martin: Disparate Nature, Touchstones Rochdale (solo show) 2010: Pan African Craft Exhibition, South Africa
The Rochdale Pioneers quickly became an inspiration for a wide part of the society, and the co-operative movement started to be known nationally and internationally. As a result, the Co-operative Union purchased the building at 31 Toad Lane in 1925, expressly to create a museum that enhanced the birthplace of co-operation.
Rochdale Interchange; Rochdale Pioneers Museum; Rochdale power station; Rochdale Town Hall; S. St Edmund's Church, Rochdale ... Touchstones Rochdale This page was ...
Rochdale Arts Festival [19] Acrylic on canvas Touchstones Rochdale: H 123 x W 123 cm Gift from the Amateur Societies c. 1971 Nude in a Polythene Interior [20] Oil on board Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum: H 61 x W 91.4 cm Purchased c. 1974 Fiddlers Ferry [21] Oil on canvas Museum of Lancashire: H 115 x W 115 cm Purchased from artist c. 2009