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Posted on June 2, 2010.
Brewhouse Yard MuseumMuseums and Galleries in Nottingham

Nottingham is a vibrant city, full of music and entertainment, as well as the history and culture. For those looking for a day or appreciation of art history and restore calm it can bring, the city has many museums and art galleries.

Free Angel Row Gallery Central Library showcases contemporary works by living artists. Most performances are experimental and reflection in nature and typically include interactive exhibits for children and families alongside the displays more contemplative. There are also a number of workshops, conferences, and courses offered by the gallery.

The first municipal art gallery in the United Kingdom was the Midland Counties Museum of Art, founded in 1872. In 1878, moved to Nottingham Castle, last renovated by renowned local architect Thomas Chambers Hine after being burned and gutted by rioters angry against the Duke of Newcastle in 1831. The gallery, with its name changed into "Nottingham Art Museum" and then "Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle" has grown rapidly through public donations, and now the pipes of a world-class collection of archaeological objects and antiques, an ethnographic collection, ceramics, paintings, prints and drawings, silver, armor, and Venetian glass. It exhibits many children, and frequent visits to the caves through many tunnels artificial , dungeons and cellars dug deep into the sandstone foundations of the castle. The Castle Museum is now a partner at the Nottingham School of Art.

There are also many private art galleries and art dealers throughout Nottingham, particularly in the Lace Market area. The Lakeside Arts Centre provides the visual arts, plus music, dance and theater.

The Museum of Nottingham Life at Brewhouse Yard is a fascinating collection of information on daily life in the city over the last three hundred years. Yard Brewhouse was once a small village of twenty houses, including the famous "Journey to Jerusalem" pub dating back to the 11th century, and several cave dwellings carved into the sandstone cliff, which were used as shelters -air during the Second World War. Since 1977, five of the 17th century Holiday Village have been renovated to accommodate the museum's historical collection. Each cabin holds a reconstruction of Edwardian and Victorian households or workshop sets of yesteryear, as well as displays of old photographs, paintings, machines and more.

Mathematical physicist George Green built a windmill in the 19th century and is still working mill that produces award-winning organic flour. Visitors Green Windmill and Science Centre, founded in 1985, can observe the operation of the plant and learn more about the history and current production of flour. There is also a hands-on Science Centre which explores some of the concepts studied during Green's life. There are interactive exhibits on electricity, light and magnetism that are intended for children.

The Natural History Museum was founded in 1867 and showcases the collections of international and local naturalists. It was moved to its own buildings at University College (now University of Nottingham) in 1881, was closed during the war, then moved to the largely unsuitable Wollaton Hall in 1926. He holds more than three quarters of a million specimens of fossils, minerals, insects, plants and vertebrates and invertebrates. The biological and geological record Nottingham Centre is located in the museum.

Newstead Abbey was home to the Byron family. The Byron area and have been donated to the Museum of the City of Nottingham by Sir Julien Cahn in 1931. It has information and memorabilia about the famous poet Lord Byron, the families linked to Byron, Wildman and Webb, and archival and archaeological.

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