Art Gallery & Museum - what’s in the Collections
The Art Gallery & Museum has a permanent collection of over 10,000 objects in the fields of art, crafts, sculpture, local and social history, archaeology and ethnography. Most have been donated by local people, beginning in the 1860s and continuing to the present day.
The Art Gallery & Museum continues to collect by donation and purchase in the fields of art, crafts, sculpture and local and social history, following the guidelines set out in the Acquisition and Disposal Policy (62kb, PDF).
A selection of objects from the collections of the Art Gallery & Museum
Medical History
The Art Gallery & Museum has adopted Medical History as a new area for collecting since the move to the Royal Pump Rooms in 1999. This reflects the history of the building as a centre for medical treatments, especially hydrotherapy and physiotherapy, for nearly two centuries.
 
Photographs from the collection showing treatment rooms in the Royal Pump Rooms.
A major step forward in this area has been the acquisition of work by Damian Hirst and other contemporary artists as part of the Medicate project carried out with the support of the Wellcome Trust between 1999 and 2005.
For enquiries about the collections contact: prooms@warwickdc.gov.uk
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