Galleries · North Wales
Lady Lever Art Gallery
Lady Lever Art Gallery — Art museum in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Bebington · 0.3 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Lady Lever Art Gallery is an art gallery in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1922. Designed by William Owen. Heritage designation: Grade II listed building. Part of National Museums Liverpool. Address: CH62 5EQ. Wikidata describes it as: "Art museum in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK". Coordinates: 53.3558°, -2.9993°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: New Ferry SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool. The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste. It houses major collections of fine and decorative art that are an expression of Lord Leverhulme's personal taste and collecting interests. The collection is strong in British 19th-century painting and sculpture, spilling over to include late 18th-century and early 20th works. There are important collections of English furniture, Wedgwood, especially jasperware, and Chinese ceramics, and smaller groups of other types of objects, such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture. The majority of objects were part of the original donation, but the collection has continued to expand at a modest rate. The museum displays mostly mixed paintings, sculpture and furniture together, and there are five period rooms recreating typical period interiors from large houses.
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Background
History
Lever began collecting art in the late 19th century, largely to use in advertising for the popular Sunlight Soap brand (manufactured a few minutes' walk from the gallery) that helped to create his fortune. As he grew richer his collections began to expand, his confidence grew as well and he developed a taste for collecting. He mostly collected British art, but he was also fascinated by Chinese art, Roman sculpture and Greek vases, which he had chosen to collect to show styles that had influenced British artists in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. He endowed the gallery to showcase his collection. It is named in memory of his wife Elizabeth Hulme (Lady Lever) who had died in 1913.
Description
Commissioned in 1913 from architects William and Segar Owen, the Lady Lever Art Gallery was built in the Beaux-Arts style. The building was opened in 1922 by Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria. In 2015 a touring exhibition visited museums in Japan and elsewhere. The redeveloped South End galleries were restored to their original architecture style as part of a £2.8 million restoration project in 2016. The work included opening up original doorways to increase the circulation of visitors, improving the lighting and restoring some of the original vaulted ceilings. <gallery mode=packed heights=112px caption="Gallery Rooms"> File:Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight,…
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- Coordinates
- 53.3558, -2.9993
- District
- Wirral
- Parish
- Wirral, unparished area
- Postcode
- CH62 5EQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
- Established
- 1922
- Nearest railway station
- Bebington — 0.3 km
- Official site
- www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q1586957 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Lady Lever Art Gallery (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight - IMG 0915.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lady Lever Art Gallery?
- Lady Lever Art Gallery is in North Wales, United Kingdom (postcode CH62 5EQ), in the parish of Wirral, unparished area.
- When was Lady Lever Art Gallery built?
- Built or established in 1922. Designed by William Owen.
- Is Lady Lever Art Gallery a listed building?
- Lady Lever Art Gallery is officially recognised as Grade II listed building listed.
- Is Lady Lever Art Gallery a protected site?
- Yes — Lady Lever Art Gallery is part of the New Ferry SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is Lady Lever Art Gallery free to visit?
- Yes, Lady Lever Art Gallery is free to enter.
- How do I get to Lady Lever Art Gallery?
- The nearest railway station is Bebington, about 0.3 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode CH62 5EQ.