Whitworth Art Gallery
Whitworth Art Gallery
- Address
- Oxford Rd University of Manchester
- Website
- Hours
- 10am-5pm Mon-Sat, noon-4pm Sun
Lonely Planet review for Whitworth Art Gallery
Manchester’s second most important art gallery has a wonderful collection of British watercolours. It also houses the best selection of historic textiles outside London, and has a number of galleries devoted to the work of artists from Dürer and Rembrandt to Lucien Freud and David Hockney. All this high art aside, you may find that the most interesting part of the gallery is the group of rooms dedicated to wallpaper – proof that bland pastels and horrible flowery patterns are not the final word in home decoration.
