Welcome to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum's revised website. We hope you find this informative and attractive. We would also appreciate any comments you may have as our aim always is to keep on improving.
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We have an outstanding permanent collection including fine art, ceramics, jewellery, furniture, local history, - the list just goes on! And a programme of changing exhibitions so there is always something new to see.
A new kind of collection
Zeitgeist (n. the spirit of the time)
Oral History is collecting and preserving living memories for the future.
This project seeks to celebrate our more recent past in the words of the colourful characters who live and work here to create a vivid snapshot of our town in 2007.
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exhibitions and events leaflet...
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May - August 2008' leaflet (pdf 1.1mb)
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Geometry of Fear
7 June – 19 July
Art historian Herbert Read coined the phrase ‘geometry of fear’ when describing the angst- ridden post war sculpture of Lynn Chadwick, Eduardo Paolozzi and Kenneth Armitage, shown at the 1952 Venice Biennale. These powerful works gave British sculpture an international footing.
More on this exhibition...