MANCHESTER ART GALLERY

Visitors can also enjoy a diverse programme of changing exhibitions, ranging from historic to cutting edge contemporary art, photography, design, decorative art and family friendly exhibitions. Manchester Art Gallery welcomes families and we offer a range of family-friendly facilities and a year-round events programme. To help visitors learn more about our collection or art in general, we also offer a wide range of tours, talks and workshops for adult learners, as well as programmes for schools and colleges and community groups. Visitors can relax in our gallery cafe or browse in the shop for art related gifts and cards. Manchester Art Gallery is available for venue hire, commercial filming, weddings and civil ceremonies and more.

Manchester Art Gallery is part of a group of nine museums and galleries in Manchester, which work together as the Manchester Museums Consortium. The group share a dual vision: the desire to stage intelligent, thought-provoking and outward looking exhibitions and events, and to celebrate the city in which we live, work and play. Nearly 13, 000 works, including oil paintings, sculptures, medals, drawings and watercolours, prints, posters and photographs. The fine art collection is made up over 2, 000 oil paintings, 3, 000 watercolours and drawings, 250 sculptures, 90 miniatures and around 1, 000 prints.

We are best known for our outstanding collection of 19th century British paintings. Most major artists are represented, including the great Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. Ford Madox Brown's masterpiece Work, usually on display in the Pre-Raphaelite Gallery, is widely acknowledged to be a key icon of the Victorian age. We also have popular paintings by Edward Coley Burne-Jones and John William Waterhouse, and paintings of historical, literary and contemporary subjects by Frederic Lord Leighton and William Powell Frith.