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Art Gallery Attractions In Warwickshire

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Art Gallery Attractions In Warwickshire

  • 1. Rugby Art Gallery & Museum Rugby
    The Rugby Art Gallery and Museum is a combined art gallery and museum located in central Rugby, Warwickshire, in England. The purpose-built building housing it which was opened in 2000 also contains the town's library. The art gallery hosts a nationally recognised temporary exhibition from the Rugby collection of 20th century and contemporary British art, which includes prints, drawings and paintings by artists such as Stanley Spencer, Bridget Riley, Leon Kossoff, Paul Nash, Robert Priseman, Simon Burton, Linda Ingham, L. S. Lowry and Lucian Freud. It also hosts collections of contemporary arts and crafts when the main collection is not available. The museum hosts a collection of Roman artefacts, excavated from the nearby Roman town of Tripontium. It also has a display of the social and in...
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  • 2. Chatsworth House Bakewell
    Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire, England, in the Derbyshire Dales 3.5 miles northeast of Bakewell and 9 miles west of Chesterfield . The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has been home to the Cavendish family since 1549. Standing on the east bank of the River Derwent, Chatsworth looks across to the low hills that divide the Derwent and Wye valleys. The house, set in expansive parkland and backed by wooded, rocky hills rising to heather moorland, contains an important collection of paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other artefacts. Chatsworth has been selected as the United Kingdom's favourite country house several times.
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