The Box, Plymouth. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery in the Drake Circus area of Plymouth, Devon, England was built in 1907-10 by Thornely and Rooke in Edwardian Baroque style.
The building closed in late 2016. The site, along with the former Central Library building and St Luke's Church on Tavistock Place, have since been redeveloped into The Box, Plymouth.
This major new heritage and cultural centre is scheduled to open in spring 2020. The Museum's collections encompass fine and decorative arts, natural history and human history.
The natural history collection consists of over 150,000 specimens and an historic natural history library and archive. Many prehistoric artefacts from Dartmoor, important Bronze Age and Iron Age material from Mount Batten and medieval and post-medieval finds from Plymouth are found in the human history collection alongside artifacts from ancient Egypt and other ancient cultures of Europe and the Middle East.
The art collections include 750 easel paintings, over 3,000 watercolours and drawings, at least 5,000 prints and a sizeable collection of sculptures. A large proportion of the art was donated to the people of Plymouth in 1852 by William Cotton and is known as the Cottonian Collection. It had been put together principally by the collector Charles Rogers, and includes works by Sir Joshua Reynolds who was born locally. The collections also include work by artists o
The building closed in late 2016. The site, along with the former Central Library building and St Luke's Church on Tavistock Place, have since been redeveloped into The Box, Plymouth.
This major new heritage and cultural centre is scheduled to open in spring 2020. The Museum's collections encompass fine and decorative arts, natural history and human history.
The natural history collection consists of over 150,000 specimens and an historic natural history library and archive. Many prehistoric artefacts from Dartmoor, important Bronze Age and Iron Age material from Mount Batten and medieval and post-medieval finds from Plymouth are found in the human history collection alongside artifacts from ancient Egypt and other ancient cultures of Europe and the Middle East.
The art collections include 750 easel paintings, over 3,000 watercolours and drawings, at least 5,000 prints and a sizeable collection of sculptures. A large proportion of the art was donated to the people of Plymouth in 1852 by William Cotton and is known as the Cottonian Collection. It had been put together principally by the collector Charles Rogers, and includes works by Sir Joshua Reynolds who was born locally. The collections also include work by artists o
Wikipedia ...