Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

Royal Pump Rooms
The Parade
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 4AA
England

Website

www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms

E-mail

prooms@warwickdc.gov.uk

Telephone

01926 742700

Fax

01926 742705

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Award winning Art Gallery and Museum with services on offer including: Fine Art Collection, Exhibition on the History of Royal Leamington Spa, Cabinet of Curiosities - A Gallery of Interactive Exhibits, Hammam - restored Victorian Turkish Baths Room, Changing Programme of Visual Arts, History and Local Interest Exhibitions and Events, Educational Parties by Arrangement.

Venue Type:

Museum

Opening hours

Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 1030-1700
Thur 1330-2000
Sun 1100-1600

Closed: Mon, except Bank Hols

Admission charges

Free Admission

General services and facilities

Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
Pre-booking service for groups
Toilets
Shop

Children and families

Activities for pre-school children
Events and resources for children and families

Disability access

Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
Induction loops in exhibition spaces
Large print information and/or interpretation
Touch exhibits
Parking for disabled available
Toilets for disabled
Wheelchair access to all public areas

Schools services and facilities

Primary school education service available
Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
Education facilities available

Research and adult learning

Adult lectures and courses held

Additional info

The facilities at the Royal Pump Rooms also include a Cafe, Library, Tourist Information Centre and multi-purpose Assembly Rooms. Baby-changing facilities available.

Royal Pump Rooms
The Parade
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 4AA
England

Website

www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms

E-mail

prooms@warwickdc.gov.uk

Telephone

01926 742700

Fax

01926 742705

Fine Arts including 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish, 19th and 20th century British artists, local artists, sculpture, ceramics and glassware, social history collections especially 18th to 20th century Leamington Spa and various ethnographical collections.

Collection details

Archaeology, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Medicine, Social History, Toys and Hobbies, Weapons and War

Key artists and exhibits

Recent acquisitions include works of art by Mark Quinn, Mark Francis and Catherine Yass. Other key artists in the collection include Stanley Spencer, L.S. Lowry, Gillian Wearing, Vanessa Bell, Patrick Caulfield, Sir Terry Frost, Walter Sickert and Graham Sutherland.

Collections services

Object identification and/or written enquiry service
Specialist publications on collections available
Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Royal Pump Rooms
The Parade
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 4AA
England

Website

www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms

E-mail

prooms@warwickdc.gov.uk

Telephone

01926 742700

Fax

01926 742705

Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

James Edward Duggins (1881 - 1968): A Warwickshire Impressionist

2 December 2011 — 12 February 2012 *on now

This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see a wide range of works by the popular, but now often forgotten, artist and photographer James Edward Duggins. Duggins, the son of a clockmaker, was born in Cubbington in 1881. He moved to St Ives at the age of 23 to study under the British Impressionist painters Algernon Talmage and Julius Olsson. There, he became friends with the marine artist John Park and met Edward Stott and George Clausen, who influenced his pastel work. In 1906 he returned to Leamington Spa to establish a photographic business at The Grove Studio on Regent Grove. He also taught at the Boys’ College, Binswood Avenue and the Art School in Leamington, and illustrated two books, Sweet Arden (1908) and Unknown Warwickshire (1924). He continued to paint and sketch scenes inspired by the Warwickshire and Cotswold countryside throughout his life, exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy. This is the first retrospective exhibition of Duggin’s work to take place since the artist’s death. It includes paintings, pastels, watercolours and photographs from both public and private collections.