Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum cares for Warwick District Council’s collection of over 14,000 objects and artworks. Collections include fine and decorative arts, local and social history, world cultures, coins and medals, and archaeology.
The fine art collection includes Victorian, modern and contemporary British art, local scenes and works by Warwickshire artists, and Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries. The decorative art collection includes ceramics and glass, mainly British and dating from the 17th to 19th centuries, with a small number of works by contemporary makers.
The history collections were largely donated by local residents and reflect their histories, lives and interests. The social history collection includes a wide range of objects, mostly relating to the history of the town from the late 18th century to the present. Other collections include: photographs and prints of local people, buildings and landscapes; ephemera, including personal documents and printed matter; medical equipment relating to the Royal Pump Rooms and spa treatments; posters; numismatics, including British and foreign coins and tokens; objects from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Australia, the Americas and Europe, mainly made and collected during the 19th and early 20th centuries; and archaeological objects excavated between the late 19th century and the 1930s.
