 Bury Art Museum with Bury Central Library | |
  Location of Bury Art Museum within Greater Manchester | |
| Established | 9 October 1901; 124 years ago (1901-10-09) |
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| Location | Moss Street,Bury |
| Coordinates | 53°35′30″N2°17′55″W / 53.5917°N 2.2986°W /53.5917; -2.2986 |
| Type | Art museum |
| Collection size | approx. 62,000 objects |
| Public transit access | Bury Interchange |
| Website | buryartmuseum.co.uk |
Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, formerly known asBury Museum and Art Gallery, is a publicmuseum,archives, andart gallery in the town ofBury, Greater Manchester, northernEngland, owned byBury Council. Built in 1901, the museum's buildings were restored and reopened in 2005.[1]
Bury Art Museum's collection was established, in commemoration ofQueen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, with the gift of more than 200 oil paintings, watercolours, prints and ceramics accumulated by theVictorian paper manufacturerThomas Wrigley (1808–1880), on the condition that suitable premises should be built to house the collection. The present building was designed by the Manchester firm of Woodhouse and Willoughby, and was opened byFrederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby on 9 October 1901. The town's Museum opened in the basement of the Art Gallery in 1907.[2]
The museum's Wrigley Collection is an assemblage of more than two hundred oil paintings, watercolours, prints and ceramics, which includes works byJ. M. W. Turner,John Constable,Edwin Landseer, andGeorge Clausen. Donations of other artworks quickly followed the museum's opening, including donations from the town's Member of ParliamentJames Kenyon (1846–1924) and many others. Other paintings include works byHenry Dawson,John Bagnold Burgess, andJoseph Noel Paton. There are twentieth-century paintings by artists such asVictor Pasmore andEdward Burra, and the museum also holds more recent twenty-first-century art works.[2]
In 2005, a £1.2 million refurbishment was carried out, designed to provide a brand new museum, art gallery and library all under one roof. This includes a combined Museum and Archives Centre which, based on a radical re-think, uses artefacts, documentation and art to tell the story of the town.[3] The council decided, in 2006, to sellLowry's paintingThe Riverbank at auction in order to fund part of its social services budget shortfall which resulted in theMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) removing its accredited museum status.[4] Bury Museum and Art Gallery was renamed as Bury Art Museum in 2011. The most recent renovation includes modern artefacts such as iPods and electric iRobot vacuum cleaners.
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