Art Gallery
This is located in the former hydrotherapy pool at the Royal Pump Rooms. It provides a superb location for the display of Warwick District Council's 17th century paintings and 19th - 21st century visual arts collections. These include works by major British artists such as Terry Atkinson, Sir Terry Frost, Ivon Hitchens, Simon Lewty, L S Lowry, Paul Nash, Marc Quinn, Stanley Spencer, Mark Titchner and Gillian Wearing.
The Art Gallery
The art displays were re-hung in autumn 2008. They currently feature a selection of paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, ceramics and glass drawn from the collections. The displays include newly acquired works such as Tessa Beaver's Snow: Near Urbino II and old favourites like LS Lowry's painting, The Mission Room (1937) and The Coming of the Swedes (1876) by Friedrich Georg Papperitz, which was previously on display at the Town Hall.
Photography
Photography is generally not allowed in the Art Gallery however special permission may be granted in certain circumstances, copyright permitting. If you would like to take photographs please download and complete the permission form (23kb, PDF) and send it to the address below or hand it in at the Art Gallery desk.
Haddie's Gallery
Join Haddie the circus elephant and explore our family gallery to discover what life was like for a child in Victorian Leamington Spa. Find out about Sam Lockhart, the world famous elephant trainer, journey along the river Leam and try out games played by Victorian children. There are fun interactives, exciting historical objects and artworks from across our collections.
Haddie's Gallery
Local History Gallery
The museum’s Local History Gallery is on the site of the exotic former Turkish Bath, which was added to the Royal Pump Rooms in 1863. The displays tell the story of Leamington's development from a rural village to the elegant and thriving town of today. At the heart of the story is the discovery of the spa water and how the local community used it to promote Leamington as a health resort in the 19th and 20th century.
Local history displays in the Museum.
The 'Hammam', part of the Turkish Bath, has been incorporated into the Local History Gallery. The Hammam has strong Islamic influences in its style, colouring and stained glass. The original paint work, tiles and brickwork have been uncovered and the original decorative scheme recreated. Some of the glass is the restored original; the rest was made in 1998 to complement it by stained glass artist and designer William Nichol.
The restored Hammam.
Temporary Exhibitions Gallery
This is used to show a programme of changing exhibitions on contemporary and historic visual arts and local history.
The temporary exhibitions gallery in 2009 showing the Sixites Summer exhibition
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