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Halifax
Art Galleries
The primary art exhibition venue in Halifax is located in the eighteenth-century Piece Hall in the town centre. Home to fifty retail units and a large fleamarket, the Piece Hall also houses a Visitors Centre and Art Gallery. The gallery features varying displays of art, craft, photography and design, with new displays presented usually eight times a year. Technical and children’s workshops are also hosted there.
The gallery covers what were once a number of retail units, separating the exhibitions out into different, themed spaces, and allowing browsers to savour the works individually. As a result of new funding for the gallery, an emphasis will now be placed on craft works and these will be for sale at the gallery. Admission is free and the Piece Hall is open seven days a week, from 10am until 5pm.
Bankfield Museum and Art Gallery is located in a Victorian mill owner’s home in Akroyd Park, and specialises in textiles and contemporary craft works. The venue became a museum towards the end of the nineteenth-century and has increased in cultural and historical importance ever since.
The gallery is separated into ten smaller galleries, each displaying different sets of exhibits documenting the local and international history of the textiles and crafts industries. ‘World of Textiles’ features a range of textiles from around the world, some dating from the nineteenth-century. ‘Duke of Wellington Regiment The West Riding’ features interactive displays and exhibits exploring the history of the regiment. The ‘Edith Durham Gallery’ is dedicated to the early twentieth-century traveler and textiles and jewellery collector. The ‘Akroyd Chapel’ is the family chapel of the museum’s benefactor’s family, and retains many of its original features. The ‘Toy Gallery’ features displays of children’s toys, some dating from the nineteenth-century. Both local and international items are exhibited in ‘Calderdale Collects’, with items from China, Japan and the UK. The ‘Costume Gallery’ is home to garments from around the world – British women’s clothing from 1825-1925 is held in one area, and clothes from around the world in another. There are three more areas in the gallery, and these are used to the house temporary exhibitions.
Call 01422 352 334 for more information.
The Dean Clough Gallery is located in an early nineteenth-century spinning mill, alongside a hundred small businesses and the Viaduct Theatre. There are six-hundred exhibits, displayed in the eight Dean Clough Galleries located over three levels: The Viaduct Gallery, The Design House Gallery, the Crossley Gallery, the Link Gallery and a number of seminar galleries on the upper floor. The exhibits explore art and design, and artists range from the internationally renowned to the unheard-of. Admission is free and the galleries are open seven days a week, from 10am until 5pm.
The Smith Art Gallery is home to a small collection of Victorian paintings, and regularly features temporary exhibitions. The gallery is based on Halifax Road, and can be contacted on 01484 719 222.
The gallery covers what were once a number of retail units, separating the exhibitions out into different, themed spaces, and allowing browsers to savour the works individually. As a result of new funding for the gallery, an emphasis will now be placed on craft works and these will be for sale at the gallery. Admission is free and the Piece Hall is open seven days a week, from 10am until 5pm.
Bankfield Museum and Art Gallery is located in a Victorian mill owner’s home in Akroyd Park, and specialises in textiles and contemporary craft works. The venue became a museum towards the end of the nineteenth-century and has increased in cultural and historical importance ever since.
The gallery is separated into ten smaller galleries, each displaying different sets of exhibits documenting the local and international history of the textiles and crafts industries. ‘World of Textiles’ features a range of textiles from around the world, some dating from the nineteenth-century. ‘Duke of Wellington Regiment The West Riding’ features interactive displays and exhibits exploring the history of the regiment. The ‘Edith Durham Gallery’ is dedicated to the early twentieth-century traveler and textiles and jewellery collector. The ‘Akroyd Chapel’ is the family chapel of the museum’s benefactor’s family, and retains many of its original features. The ‘Toy Gallery’ features displays of children’s toys, some dating from the nineteenth-century. Both local and international items are exhibited in ‘Calderdale Collects’, with items from China, Japan and the UK. The ‘Costume Gallery’ is home to garments from around the world – British women’s clothing from 1825-1925 is held in one area, and clothes from around the world in another. There are three more areas in the gallery, and these are used to the house temporary exhibitions.
Call 01422 352 334 for more information.
The Dean Clough Gallery is located in an early nineteenth-century spinning mill, alongside a hundred small businesses and the Viaduct Theatre. There are six-hundred exhibits, displayed in the eight Dean Clough Galleries located over three levels: The Viaduct Gallery, The Design House Gallery, the Crossley Gallery, the Link Gallery and a number of seminar galleries on the upper floor. The exhibits explore art and design, and artists range from the internationally renowned to the unheard-of. Admission is free and the galleries are open seven days a week, from 10am until 5pm.
The Smith Art Gallery is home to a small collection of Victorian paintings, and regularly features temporary exhibitions. The gallery is based on Halifax Road, and can be contacted on 01484 719 222.
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