Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre
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Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre
Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre is located in a beautiful, Grade II-listed building in the heart of Bury, a short walk from Bury Metrolink and Bus interchange.
The gallery was specially built to house the Wrigley collection of oil paintings, watercolours, statuary, engravings and Wedgewood plaques. It features airy rooms, elegant arches and a beautifully tessellated parquet floor which provide a lovely setting for the collections. Highlights include JMW Turner’s Calais Sands and John Constable’s Hampstead Heath.
The museum collections include 20th and 21st century art, as well as more unusual finds like the Text Art Archive and Bury’s Pilkington’s Pots but the displays won’t take hours to see and you’ll still have plenty of time to rummage in the irresistible Bury Art Shop.
Fans of sculpture will love the Irwell Sculpture Trail (IST) which extends over 33 miles through Salford to Rosendale, featuring over 70 artworks. The IST is split into local clusters too, so you can have a short art walk in the area, starting in the Sculpture Centre.
A few of the Trail pieces are located in the Bury Art Museum building, with the Sculpture Centre being an indoor focal point within the trail that explores contemporary sculptural practice in a gallery, rather than outdoor, setting. It hosts a programme of touring and in-house exhibitions that delve deep into today’s sculptural practices.
The gallery’s beautiful setting and collection is well worth the tram ride.
