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Millennium Gallery in Sheffield

A City Center Arts Showcase with a Difference

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Millennium Gallery in Sheffield

Punch cup by Sheffield designer-silversmith Katey Felton is part of the Millennium Punch Bowl display at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield. Each year, a Sheffield designer is commissioned to create a cup for the silver gilt bowl.

courtesy of Katey Felton
  • What: A showcase for visual arts, crafts and design in the center of Sheffield
  • Where: Arundel Gate, Sheffield S1 2PP
  • Telephone: +44 (0)114 278 2600
  • Admission: Free but there may be a charge for special exhibitions
  • Open: Every day, Monday through Saturday 8a.m. to 5p.m., Sunday 11.m. to 5p.m.
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Sheffield's main art gallery/exhibition center is about as far from a stuffy museum-type institution as you can get. From its entrance off Sheffield's Winter Garden, a temperate greenhouse, the Millennium Gallery is a series of exhibition rooms linked by a bright and airy atrium. Visitors can dip in and out of the exhibition rooms casually, following whatever interests them.

Their are four galleries on two levels, including:

  • The Metalwork Gallery: An exhibition of historic and contemporary Sheffield metalwork and silversmithing, featuring outstanding pieces, the story of metalworking in Sheffield and interactive displays.
  • The Craft and Design Gallery The largest exhibition space of its type in the region, featuring work by contemporary makers and designers as well as exhibitions by masters and designers of the past.
  • The Ruskin Gallery A unique minerals, paintings, drawings, ornithological prints, Medieval manuscripts, books and architectural plastercasts assembled by Victorian art critic and social philosopher John Ruskin.
  • Special Exhibition Gallery Venue for four blockbuster exhibitions a year, with national and international masterpieces from the Tate Britain, the Victoria & Albert Museum and other major institutions.
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