Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery

Millennium Gallery
Arundel Gate
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2PP
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/coresite/html/millennium.asp

E-mail

info@museums-sheffield.org.uk

Telephone

Main Reception

0114 278 2600

Bookings for Tours, Talks, Events and School Trips

0114 278 2655

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Step into one of Sheffield’s architectural treasures, the award winning Millennium Gallery, an inspiring venue in the heart of the city centre.

Our dynamic exhibition programme brings masterpieces from national galleries to the city and is the key place to find out about Sheffield's world famous metalwork industry. You can discover how the industry grew in Sheffield and see an amazing range of objects that have been designed and made by the city's skilled craftspeople. There are interactive exhibits to encourage visitors of all ages and abilities to participate and explore the collection further.

You’ll also find changing exhibitions of contemporary craft and design alongside an original collection gathered by one of the most eminent figures of the Victorian Age: artist and writer John Ruskin. The collection attracts visitors from all over the world and contains one of the largest holdings of ornithological prints outside the Natural History Museum in London.

Relax and refresh in Museums Sheffield Cafe, or take a stroll in the adjacent exotic Winter Garden, where you can see 2,000 tropical plants in one of the largest temperate glasshouses in Britain. Find that specialist art magazine in our newly refurbished and expanded gallery shop and indulge in a wide range of original and luxury gifts, books, greeting cards and toys.

Part of a Designated Collection of national importance is on display at this venue.

Venue Type:

Museum, Gallery, Industrial heritage site, Garden, parklands or rural site

 Opening hours

Mon - Sat 10.00-17.00
Sun 11.00-17.00

 Admission charges

Admission to Millennium Gallery is free, except for some special exhibitions.

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Information point provided
  • Cafeteria
  • Refreshments
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • Touch exhibits
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
 Schools services and facilities
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Research facilities for academics
 Commercial and hire services
  • Licensed for weddings
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Millennium Gallery
Arundel Gate
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2PP
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/coresite/html/millennium.asp

E-mail

info@museums-sheffield.org.uk

Telephone

Main Reception

0114 278 2600

Bookings for Tours, Talks, Events and School Trips

0114 278 2655

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Part of Sheffield's metalwork Designated Collection of national importance is on display here.

The Metalwork Gallery within Sheffield's Millennium Gallery is home to over 1,000 items from this vast collection of some 8,000 objects, and further pieces are on display at the Museums Sheffield: Weston Park. Please contact Millennium Gallery for more information if you wish to see a specific item.

The collection is made up of cutlery, flatware and hollowware made in the city, together with an outstanding selection of comparative material from Europe and many parts of Africa and Asia. It includes silver, pewter, stainless steel and Old Sheffield Plate and is the best collection of its kind in this country and almost certainly the world. The collection dates from the 14th century to the present day and includes unique, handcrafted one-off pieces and examples of the mass-produced cutlery for which Sheffield has an international reputation.

The Ruskin Gallery is home to the impressive Guild of St. George Collection which contains an array of paintings, drawings, photographs, books, and minerals, all of which illustrate the beauty of the natural world or the skill of craftsman and artists. An exquisite painting of St Mark’s in Venice by J.W. Bunney, medieval illuminated manuscripts and detailed botanical drawings can be seen in the gallery alongside large plaster casts of architectural features from ancient buildings and beautiful minerals such as opal and ameythyst. The collection was brought together by John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), a renowned Victorian writer, artist, and critic who had a major impact on nineteenth century thinking. In 1875 Ruskin established a small museum in Sheffield so that the ‘working men’ would be able to enjoy and benefit from seeing this wide-ranging collection. Since then the Ruskin Gallery has had various homes in Sheffield; Meersbrook Park, the Hays building on Norfolk Street and now the Millennium Gallery.

Collection details

Fine Art, Film and Media, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Archives

Key artists and exhibits

  • The Millennium Gallery has two temporary exhibition spaces. The Special Exhibition Gallery shows blockbuster exhibitions from national galleries and museums such as the V&A, Tate and the National Portrait Gallery. The craft and Design Gallery shows the best in contemporary craft and design.
  • Designated Collection

Collections services

  • Public access available to collections information

Millennium Gallery
Arundel Gate
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2PP
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/coresite/html/millennium.asp

E-mail

info@museums-sheffield.org.uk

Telephone

Main Reception

0114 278 2600

Bookings for Tours, Talks, Events and School Trips

0114 278 2655

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Watercolour in Britain: Tradition and Beyond exhibition at Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery

17 June — 5 September 2010 *on now

This exhibition illustrates the remarkable diversity of a truly British art form and shows that watercolour has been used by many different cultures over the centuries, each with their own ideas. Featuring rarely seen paintings by artists including JMW Turner, William Blake and Edward Burra, this exhibition looks at watercolour’s iconic status in our cultural heritage before asking ‘where next?’ From sculptors such as Henry Moore and Anish Kapoor, to Surrealists like Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, Watercolour in Britain showcases artists who have pushed the boundaries of its potential. Part of the Great British Art Debate at Museums Sheffield.

Suitable for

  • All ages

Admission

Free

Teatopia exhibition at Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery

1 July — 24 October 2010 *on now

Teatopia is a new craft and design exhibition which delights in our national obsession with tea. Tea-drinking has linked British culture with many other countries and cultures throughout history and these connections are still vibrant today. This exhibition includes historic objects such as fine ceramics and metalwork from Sheffield’s own collections alongside iconic contemporary art, design and craft pieces. See stunning new sculptural work from rising star of UK ceramics Hitomi Hosono and Sheffield-based illustrator Geo Law, who has created a contemporary tea towel design exclusively for the exhibition.

Suitable for

  • All ages

Admission

Free

Millennium Gallery
Arundel Gate
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2PP
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/coresite/html/millennium.asp

E-mail

info@museums-sheffield.org.uk

Telephone

Main Reception

0114 278 2600

Bookings for Tours, Talks, Events and School Trips

0114 278 2655

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

Contemporary Metalwork in Sheffield - Living Metal

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=423

Explore the skills and knowledge of today's metalworkers in Sheffield. Discover the products made and find out more about the people who make them. Explore the skills and knowledge that people and companies use in the production.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Culture Quake: Interpreting a gallery creatively

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=510

Downloadable lesson plans providing ideas for using a gallery or museum with music, writing and art & design. The worksheets can be used with any gallery collection.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Exploring Nature and Pattern Through Art

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=318

Investigating the theme of nature and art through the work of John Ruskin.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Metalwork Gallery Animations: Cigarette box

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=396

A beautiful animation showing how a stylised silver 1930's cigarette box by Joyce Himsworth was made and how it was used.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Metalwork Gallery Animations: Ear trumpet

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=398

An animation showing how an ear trumpet made in the 1820s would be used by those who were hard of hearing to amplify sound directly into the ear.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Metalwork Gallery Animations: Moustache Tablespoon

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=397

An animation about how a Moustache Tablespoon made in 1883 was used to prevent a gentleman’s moustache from being soiled when eating soup.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Metalwork Gallery Animations: Pea knife

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=399

An animation about the use of a 1930s Pea knife, designed to assist a diner to eat peas. The peas were balanced along the central slot, enabling them to be raised to mouth without rolling off the blade. It is possible that this knife was designed to be used by children.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Metalwork Gallery Animations: Turtle soup tureen

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=395

An animation about how a 1800s turtle soup tureen was made and used. The tureen could hold up to six litres of soup in its body and was used to serve soup made from green turtles imported from the West Indies. Turtle soup and mock turtle soup were very popular dishes in Victorian times.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Metalwork in Sheffield

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=117

Learn about the history of Sheffield's metalwork, read interviews with metalworkers and watch short video clips of metalworkers in action.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Ruskin and Nature - explore the gallery with your class

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=528

A resource about the importance John Ruskin placed on nature and his belief that we should never take our environment for granted. His collection which inspired the craftsmen of Sheffield is founded on these beliefs and contains many references to nature - good images.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Thomas´s Metalwork Trail, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=165

A gallery trail for three to six year olds with Thomas the Soup Tureen, plus good images and information about objects in Sheffield's Metalwork Gallery including tea urns, ivory handles, unusual cutlery and mythical beasts.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Millennium Gallery
Arundel Gate
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2PP
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/coresite/html/millennium.asp

E-mail

info@museums-sheffield.org.uk

Telephone

Main Reception

0114 278 2600

Bookings for Tours, Talks, Events and School Trips

0114 278 2655

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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