About the museum
The story of the Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery opened in 1824 as the Royal Manchester Institution, in a Greek Revival building by Charles Barry on Mosley Street. It is now run by Manchester City Council and is free to visit.
It is best known for its Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian paintings, along with British art from the eighteenth century to today.
The collection
Manchester Art Gallery holds more than 25,000 objects. Its Victorian paintings were collected by the city's industrialists, and include Ford Madox Brown's Work, William Holman Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd and John William Waterhouse's Hylas and the Nymphs.
It also shows eighteenth-century British art, French Impressionism and modern British art, together with a craft and design collection.
At ArtLogia you can order 49 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 31 artists led by John Everett Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
- paintings to order
- 49
- artists
- 31
- art movements
- 9
- years covered
- 1675–1908
The building
Charles Barry, later architect of the Houses of Parliament, designed the Greek Revival building for the Royal Manchester Institution in 1824. In 2002 the gallery was linked to Barry's Athenaeum next door by a glass atrium.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Entry is free, and the gallery is a few minutes' walk from Manchester Town Hall and St Peter's Square.
