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The Whitworth is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing over 60,000 items in its collection. The gallery is located in Whitworth Park and is part of the University of Manchester . In 2015, the Whitworth reopened after it was transformed by a £15 million capital redevelopment that doubled its exhibition spaces, restored period ...
Waddesdon Manor heist Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire £5 million [15] £10 million 2003 Whitworth Art Gallery heist Manchester £4 million [47] £8 million 2004 Gallaher Group cigarette robbery Belfast £2 million [48] £3.9 million 2004 Northern Bank robbery: Belfast £26.5 million [49] £51.4 million 2005 Graff robbery 2005 Sloane Street, London
Whitworth was created a baronet by Queen Victoria in 1869. [4] [5] [6] Upon his death in 1887, Whitworth bequeathed much of his fortune for the people of Manchester, with the Whitworth Art Gallery and Christie Hospital partly funded by Whitworth's money. Whitworth Street and Whitworth Hall in Manchester are named in his honour.
Whitworth Park is a public park in south Manchester, England, and the location of the Whitworth Art Gallery. To the north are the University of Manchester's student residences known as "Toblerones". It was historically in Chorlton on Medlock but is now included in the Moss Side ward.
After twenty-five years, one of the country's most notorious art heists has still not been solved. Neither of the two robbers of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston have been captured ...
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Oct. 2—From staff reports Kaimi Rocha, George Valle and Jo Ann Wagstaff will be inducted as the 34th class of the Whitworth Heritage Gallery Hall of Fame. Rocha started all 106 matches of her ...
The first to obtain a loan from the State Jewish Museum was the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, England, in 1980. [14] Whitworth director Charles Reginald Dodwell had spent eight years to negotiate an exchange of exhibitions, and considered it his career highlight. [14]