The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Bethesda Street
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 3DW
England
Website
The Potteries Museum
Museum Events Page
Telephone
01782 232323
Fax
01782 232500
Travel back in time and discover the history of the the Potteries, including the world's greatest collection of Staffordshire ceramics.
See Reginald Mitchell's World War 2 Spitfire and all sorts of art and craft.
Enjoy a light lunch or afternoon snack in our relaxing Café Museum and browse in The Foyer Shop for unique quality cards, gifts, books and souvenirs of the Potteries.
The entire collection of this museum is a Designated Collection of national importance.
Venue Type:
Museum
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Bethesda Street
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 3DW
England
Website
The Potteries Museum
Museum Events Page
Telephone
01782 232323
Fax
01782 232500
The entire collection of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is a Designated Collection of national importance.
Discover the story of Stoke-on-Trent's people, industry, products and landscapes through displays of pottery, community history, archaeology, geology and wildlife. Explore rich and diverse collections of paintings, drawings, prints, costume and glass.
Collection details
Weapons and War, Toys and Hobbies, Social History, Photography, Personalities, Natural Sciences, Literature, Land Transport, Industry, Fine Art, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Coins and Medals, Archives, Archaeology
Key artists and exhibits
- 20th – 21st Century studio pottery
- Contemporary ceramics
- Minton wares
- Staffordshire Figures
- Printed pottery
- Early 19th century porcelain
- 18th century stonewares
- 18th century lead-glazed wares
- 17th and 18th century slipwares
- Near Eastern and Islamic ceramics
- Italian maiolica
- Contemporary art and craft
- Grayson Perry
- Gavin Turk
- Jacqui Poncelet
- 20th century british painting
- Slade School
- Scottish Colourists
- British Surrealists
- Conroy Maddox
- Eileen Agar
- War Artists’ Advisory Committee
- Prints
- Nineteenth century French prints
- Eduard Manet
- Toulouse Lautrec
- Degas
- Nineteenth century Japanese woodcuts
- Henry Moore
- Laura Knight
- designers
- Grete Marks
- Gordon Forsyth
- Contemporary artists
- Terry Shave
- Stephen Boyd
- David Jones
- John Constable
- Watercolours
- drawings
- JMW Turner
- Samuel Palmer
- Francis Towne
- Louis Solon drawings
- Sir Charles Barry
- busts
- Jacob Epstein
- Rodin
- lace
- dolls
- jewellery
- Wendy Ramshaw
- Zandra Rhodes
- Glass
- silver
- cowcreamers
- Furniture
- Japanese jade
- ivory
- Japanese woodcuts.
- Spitfire mark XVI
- R.J. Mitchell
- Photographic collection
- glass plates
- negatives
- transperencies
- 20th century community history
- Arnold Bennett
- papers
- diaries
- Transport memorabilia
- postcards
- tickets
- Oliver Lodge
- Igniter
- Industrial history
- machinery
- tools
- Post-medieval ceramics
- Roman
- Lightwood Hoard
- Iron age
- gold torcs
- gold
- Saxon pottery
- Bronze age
- sword
- medieval
- pre-history
- gold bracelet
- roman silver
- roman coins
- coins
- natural history
- Botanical collections
- plants
- fungi
- Charles Darwin
- geology
- rocks
- minerals
- fossils
- Zoology
- animals
- beetles
- bird eggs
- butterflies
- moths
- snails
- Environmental recording
- Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
- Wedgwood
- Spode
- Mintons
- Royal Doulton
- Designated Collection
- The Staffordshire Hoard
- Saxon
- Tudor
- Stuart
- Prehistoric
- Anglo-Saxon
- Gold
Collections services
- General guide to collections available
- Object identification and/or written enquiry service
- Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Bethesda Street
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 3DW
England
Website
The Potteries Museum
Museum Events Page
Telephone
01782 232323
Fax
01782 232500
Picturing the Potteries
This exhibition explores how the local landscape has been a source of inspiration for artists from the nineteenth century to the present.
Many artists, including Charles William Brown and Reginald Haggar, lived in and around Stoke-on-Trent, where they painted pictures of the extraordinary industrial landscape. Others, such as Michael Ayrton and Mark Wood, visited the Potteries, creating their own distinctive images of the area.
Overall, the exhibition surveys how artists have pictured the Potteries, from a semi-rural idyll to an industrial metropolis and, more recently, a city undergoing a process of transformation.
Suitable for
- Any age
Where
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Website
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Bethesda Street
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 3DW
England
Website
The Potteries Museum
Museum Events Page
Telephone
01782 232323
Fax
01782 232500
Titanic Trail
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic there will be a series of small displays around the museum exploring the city’s links with the doomed ocean liner.
Find out about Captain Smith and watch archive film of him on board Titanic’s sister ship the Olympic. Discover the connection between ceramics and the ill fated liner and see fashions from the period.
Follow the Titanic Trail around the museum and read the information boards to capture a glimpse into the story of the most famous ship in history.
Suitable for
- Any age
Where
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Website
Roman Legionaries
Meet Roman soldiers from the Ermine Street Guard as they march through the museum on their way to battle. Armoured legionaries will be on hand to describe aspects of life in the Roman army during the occupation of ancient Britain.
There will be a Roman Artillery piece, known as a catapulta, which was a machine for throwing arrows or javelins and a ‘touch table’ containing Roman artefacts of all types.
Visitors will be encouraged to interact with these soldiers asking questions and examining items of kit and equipment on display. Also make a Roman mosaic paper picture to take home.
Suitable for
- Any age
When
10:30am-4:30pm
Where
The Potteries MUseum & Art Gallery
Website
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Bethesda Street
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 3DW
England
Website
The Potteries Museum
Museum Events Page
Telephone
01782 232323
Fax
01782 232500
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Bethesda Street
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 3DW
England
Website
The Potteries Museum
Museum Events Page
Telephone
01782 232323
Fax
01782 232500
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