A NEW FORM OF ART MUSEUM – THE ART GALLERY IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
Journal Title: Muzealnictwo - Year 2015, Vol 56, Issue
Abstract
The article is devoted to the idea of the art gallery that flourished in Victorian Britain. The author describes the social and political background of the phenomenon of a new form of a museum, namely the art gallery which used to be private and popular expenditure on the arts. A rage for exhibitions erupted in nineteenth century Britain. The exhibition was central to the new art museums. These included high-minded historical surveys of world history or world art; trade exhibitions; displays of work by contemporary artists; displays of single paintings; assemblies of works from private collections, held both at the Royal Academy of Arts and in many major towns; everything except single-artist exhibitions which were regarded as vulgarly commercial. Many of the new museums were financed by such events, so that, for example, the new buildings at Kelvingrove in Glasgow were originally built to accommodate a huge popular exhibition. One of the prime purposes of the new galleries was to accommodate annual shows of work by artists, a tradition that had existed since the early nineteenth century. These art museums flourished for only a short time, and their principal legacy in material terms is the large number of well-built structures that was created for them. But the idea of creating a museum that could be enjoyed by all, free of charge, was a worthwhile one, one that has become hugely important in contemporary Britain, and that represents I believe a pioneering ideal.
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Giles Waterfield
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