Collections in the UK
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Cumbria
Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House
Bowness-on-Windermere
Blackwell was designed by Arts and Crafts architect M H Baillie Scott. The house is open to the public as a gallery providing a national and international focus for high quality arts and crafts. Blackwell's growing collection includes important pieces from throughout the Arts and Crafts era, along with twentieth century and contemporary craft and applied art objects.
+54.343423 -2.921672 -
Greater Manchester
Bolton Museum and Archive Service
Bolton
Bolton Museum & Archive Service collects, cares for and makes use of a range of objects and documents of historic, scientific and cultural interest relating to the Borough of Bolton. It has a small craft collection consisting mainly of Studio ceramics from the 1950s to the present day as well as a few studio glass pieces.
+53.577389 -2.431307 -
Greater Manchester
Gallery Oldham
Oldham
The craft collections at Gallery Oldham consist mainly of British studio ceramics, with a small mixed collection of other items including jewellery, textiles and Bangladeshi textiles and ceramics.
+53.541233 -2.109815 -
Lancashire
Harris Museum & Art Gallery
Preston
The Harris Museum & Art Gallery holds one of the finest decorative art collections in the North West region. It includes works ranging from ancient Greek pottery to contemporary ceramics & glass with a particular focus on collecting 20th-century ceramics. The Costume Gallery houses a collection which includes over 6,000 items of costume, textiles and fashion plates dating from the early 1700s to modern day.
+53.759370 -2.698144 -
Greater Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery is based in the heart of Manchester. The craft and design collection includes ceramics, furniture, metalwork and glass dating from the Ancient world to contemporary crafts. The 20th century and contemporary craft collection includes ceramics, furniture, metalwork and glass.
+53.478850 -2.241460 -
Merseyside
Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool
The Craft & Design gallery is the first dedicated space for the decorative arts at the Walker Art Gallery. On display are over 500 items covering all aspects of the decorative arts. The main strength of the Walker Art Gallery's collection is ceramics, although it does include good representative pieces in other materials.
+53.405927 -2.992436
