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Visitors to the award winning Art Gallery & Museum will find: an Art Gallery; a Local History Gallery (including part of the former Turkish Bath); a Temporary Exhibition Gallery; and a Children’s Gallery. An Education Room is available for use by school parties and educational groups.
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 and send it to the address below or hand it in at the Art Gallery desk.
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 spring 2006. They currently feature a selection of paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, ceramics and glass drawn from the collections. Some are recently acquired, such as a 19th century painting of Warwick Castle by Richard Bankes Harraden, while others are old favourites like Lucy Kemp Welch’s painting ‘Winter’s White Silence’. There are also a number of important pictures and sculptures on loan from Exhall Grange School near Coventry.
Children's Gallery
The ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ is a gallery of inter-active exhibits and games developed for 3-12 year olds. Here children can explore various aspects of art and how artists work; think about objects and what we can learn from them; and look at how and why people collect.
Children's interactive 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 gallery in 2007 showing exhibits from the Open 2007 exhibition.
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