What’s in the collections?
The Art Gallery & Museum has a permanent collection of over 11,000 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
Online Collections
To view our collections online please visit Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum Collections. You can also access the website from computers in the art gallery.
The website contains over 5,000 images of objects and artworks, and information about more than 11,000 items. The database is regularly updated with new images and details of recent acquisitions so there is always something different to see.
To learn more about using the website please see our reference booklet, Tapping In: Your Guide to Our Online Collections (419kb, PDF).
This project was carried out in partnership with Warwickshire County Council, with financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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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