Room 94: Tapestries
Room 94 is dominated by three of the Hunting Tapestries once owned by the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Made between 1425 and 1450, probably in Arras in Flanders (modern Belgium)…
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Room 58b: Heraldry & Sheldon Tapestries
Room 58b contains a display on heraldry in the 16th century as well as a selection of Sheldon tapestries. William Sheldon set up the first two significant English tapestry …
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Room 52b: Spitalfields Silks & Taking Tea
This room has an interesting combination of objects relating to tea-drinking in the mid 17th century as well as the development of silk-weaving in Spitalfields, London.
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Room 54: Baroque, Palladianism and Propaganda
Room 54 reflects the flourishing of skills such as decorative painting, carving, metalwork and upholstery in the exuberant Baroque style. Foreign artists and craftsmen, suc…
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Room 10a: Noble Living 1350–1500
The Françoise and Georges Selz Gallery is devoted to luxury goods found in the households of rich nobles and wealty merchants, occasionally contrasting them with more humbl…
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Room 41: South Asia
The Nehru Gallery displays jewellery, textiles, furniture, arms and armour, metalwork and paintings of the Mughal and British periods (16th-19th centuries)
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Room 42: Islamic Art
The Jameel Gallery houses over 400 objects, including ceramics, textiles, carpets, metalwork, glass and woodwork, which date from the great days of the Islamic caliphate of…
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Room 44: China
The T. T. Tsui Gallery houses one of the most comprehensive and important collections of Chinese art dating from 3000 BC to the present time.
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Room 45: Japan
Room 45 contains a wide range of treasures from Japan including swords and armour, netsuke (small carvings), wood-block prints, textiles, lacquer, ceramics and other articl…
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Room 47g: Korea
Room 47g displays objects made between 500 and 2000 AD which reflect the love of natural forms that pervades the decorative arts of Korea
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Room 47f: Chinese Export Art
All the items on display in this room were made in China and brought to the West by merchants who went there to buy tea, silk and porcelain and other craft products, as wel…
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Room 74: 20th Century, Internationalism & Modernism
This room is divided into three bays. The first includes objects made between 1900 and 1920, a time when appropriate uses for mechanised production were fiercely debated. I…
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Room 52: Portraiture, Public Entertainment and Chinoiserie
The George Levy Gallery looks at the effect public entertainment areas, such as the Spring Gardens in Vauxhall, had on the development of art and design.
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Room 57: The Great Bed of Ware
he enormous, three-metre-wide, Great Bed of Ware dominates Room 57. Probably built for an inn at Ware, Hertfordshire, about 1590, it is twice the size of a normal bed of th…
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Room 58: Renaissance Style
Henry VIII, a great patron of the arts, spent lavishly on furnishings, paintings, tapestries and silver. Examples of these objects are displayed in room 58.
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Room 118: Neo-classicism in Britain
This Wolfson Gallery looks at how Neo-classicism transformed architecture and design in Britain in the second half of the 18th century.
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Room 120: Beckford, Hope & Regency Classicism
The Wolfson Galleries feature several personalities who influenced art and design in the early 19th century. Among them are William Beckford, the collector and Thomas Hope,…
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Room 122: Gothic Revival & Empire
Room 122 looks at the Gothic Revival in architecture and design in the 19th century. During this time, powerful religious revivals took place leading to the establishment o…
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Room 123: Celebration & Commemoration
Room 123 includes an interesting display of commemorative items made for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.
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Room 125: Morris, Dresser & Mackintosh
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery looks at the different styles which prevailed in the late 19th century. These included aestheticism, a style based on the philosophy of …
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Room 125c: Influences from Beyond Europe
This gallery shows objects from Victorian Britain when retailers sold a growing range of goods imported from Asia and the Islamic world.
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Room 9: The Rise of the Gothic 1200–1350
The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Gallery shows the development of the Gothic style in a wider social and cultural context.
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Room 10a: Noble Living 1350–1500
The Françoise and Georges Selz Gallery is devoted to luxury goods found in the households of rich nobles and wealty merchants, occasionally contrasting them with more humbl…
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Room 50: The Renaissance City 1350–1600
The Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery holds large-scale works, once part of impressive Renaissance buildings, are displayed in the context of the cityscape. At its heart is the…
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Room 62: Splendour & Society 1500–1600
Including The Foyle Foundation Gallery, this gallery explores various aspects of life and social ritual.
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Room 63: A World of Goods 1450–1600
The Edwin and Susan Davies examines how design ideas were exchanged within and outside Europe. Objects, sometimes specifically designed for the Western market, were importe…
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Room 64: Renaissance Art & Ideas 1400–1550
The Wolfson Gallery explores Renaissance ideas and beliefs, particulary the interest in antiquity and classical precedents, together with the creative process of the artist…
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Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Visionary Textiles and Modern Art
Edinburgh Weavers was one of the most important textile companies of the twentieth century. Alastair Morton, visionary art director of the company, co…
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