Museum & Art Swindon
Illustration — The Civic Offices building in 2007 Museum & Art Swindon, formerly Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, is a museum and gallery in Swindon, England. It is run by Swindon Borough Council and since 2024 has been housed within the council's offices at Euclid Street, Swindon.
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Illustration — The Civic Offices building in 2007 Museum & Art Swindon, formerly Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, is a museum and gallery in Swindon, England. It is run by Swindon Borough Council and since 2024 has been housed within the council's offices at Euclid Street, Swindon.
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The Swindon Art Gallery collection was established in 1944 by a local benefactor, H. J. P. Bomford, through a significant donation of artworks. Until June 2021 it was displayed in Apsley House, a 19th-century former house on the corner of Bath Road and Victoria Road in Swindon's Old Town, but had to leave when Swindon Borough Council decided in the summer of 2021 that the building was no longer suitable and required major repairs; it had been closed to the public since March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection was placed in storage, and the council stated their commitment to the long term future of the institution. The facility reopened in July 2024 under a new name, Museum & Art Swindon, after the council spent £520,000 converting the first floor of its Civic Offices building at Euclid Street. The building, completed in 1939, is described by Historic England as "a striking and well-realised Moderne design".
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Swindon Museum and Art Gallery was one of the venues for the annual Swindon Festival of Literature.
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The collection focuses on major artists and movements of 20th and 21st century British art, with several works presented by the Art Fund and the Contemporary Art Society. Artists in the collection include Simon Carter, Amanda Ansell, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Graham Sutherland, L S Lowry, Paul Nash, Steven Pippin, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Richard Hamilton, Gwen John, Augustus John, Maggi Hambling, John Bellany, Tony Bevan, Ivon Hitchens, John Piper, Christopher le Brun, Dennis Creffield, Grayson Perry, William Turnbull and Ken White. The media include paintings, photography and studio pottery. At its former Apsley House venue, the museum had on display local archaeology, geology, and history. Displays presented Swindon's geological Jurassic history, its association with the Roman Empire, and the town's social history.
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- 1.Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. Swindon Borough Council.
- 2.1023456. Bath Road Museum, Apsley House and gate piers.
- 3.Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. Culture24.
- 4.Kendall Adams, Geraldine. Anger over proposal to close Swindon Museum and Art Gallery building. Museums Association. 6 July 2021.
- 5.Thomas, Aled. Swindon's museum and art gallery to open in new location next week. Swindon Advertiser. 2024-07-05.
- 6.Swindon Museum and Art Gallery is safe. Swindon Borough Council. 5 July 2021.
- 7.New Swindon Museum and Art Gallery opens four years after closure. BBC News. 2024-07-09.
- 8.1467731. Swindon Civic Offices.
- 9.Art Fund. Swindon Museum and Art Gallery.
- 10.Contemporary Art Society. Swindon Museum and Art Gallery.
- 11.Art UK Discover Artworks. artuk.org.
- 12.Swindon Festival of Literature. Swindon LitFest.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Thamesdown Borough Council, 1991, The Swindon Collection of twentieth century British art, ISBN 1871853028
- Cummings, Sophie, 2016, A guide to the Swindon Collection of modern British art (with a foreword by Robert Hiscox), Swindon Borough Council
- Cummings, Sophie, 2016, From Where I'm Standing, Contemporary Ceramics and the Swindon Collection, Swindon Borough Council. Catalogue of an exhibition supported by Arts Council England where contemporary ceramic artists responded to works from the permanent collection.
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