Manchester Art Gallery, Art museum in Mosley Street, Manchester, England
Manchester Art Gallery is a museum on Mosley Street in Manchester, England, housed in three connected buildings. The main entrance displays six Ionic columns and leads into rooms filled with paintings, sculptures and decorative art from several centuries.
The Royal Manchester Institution opened in 1824 and received a neoclassical main building designed by Charles Barry in 1882. Later expansions connected the original building with neighboring structures to create more space for the growing collections.
The building holds paintings by artists such as Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt, whose treatment of light and color reflects the Victorian era. Visitors also see works by local painters who captured the industrial life of the city and its surroundings.
Access is barrier-free and the building opens from Tuesday to Sunday between 09:45 and 17:00. Visitors can move freely through the galleries and explore the rooms at their own pace.
Pierre Adolphe Valette taught here and shaped young painters such as L.S. Lowry with his impressionist handling of color and light. His own paintings of the city in fog and rain now hang in the same rooms where he once taught.
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