Arts and museums Wolverhampton

wolverhampton art gallery

the city s arts & museums service, run council, covers 3 sites: wolverhampton art gallery, home england s biggest pop art collection after held @ tate; bantock house, fine historic house edwardian interior museum of wolverhampton located within bantock park; bilston craft gallery exhibitions of contemporary crafts.

the black country living museum, situated in nearby dudley, has large collection of artefacts , buildings across black country, including extensive collection associated city.

eagle works studios , gallery situated in chapel ash, self run artists group. provides studio accommodation eighteen visual artists, painters. small gallery holds regular programme of exhibitions show , promote contemporary art in city.

the national trust owns 2 properties on edge of city open public: wightwick manor, victorian manor house , 1 of few surviving examples of house built , furnished under influence of arts , crafts movement, , moseley old hall, famous 1 of resting places of charles ii of england during escape france following defeat @ battle of worcester in 1651. english heritage owns boscobel house, within shropshire, refuge of charles ii.

nearby museums include royal air force museum, @ raf cosford , raf fire service museum @ wolverhampton airport., whilst chillington hall, boasts of grounds designed capability brown, , himley hall nearby examples of houses open public.