Qualla: Bury Art Museum https://qualla.com/bury-art-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:23 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/bury-art-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bury Art Museum https://qualla.com/bury-art-museum Bury Art Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/bury-art-museum/ Photo credit Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0. Thomas Wrigley made his fortune from paper. He died in 1880, but in 1897 - the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee - his children offered the town of Bury something extraordinary: more than two hundred oil paintings, watercolours, prints, and ceramics, including works by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Edwin Landseer, and George Clausen. There was one condition. Bury had to build somewhere worthy to house them. The town agreed. Four years later, on 9 October 1901, the Earl of Derby opened the present building, designed by the Manchester firm of Woodhouse and Willoughby.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/bury-art-museum-wp/gcw2-bury-art-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bury Art Museum: The Wrigley Bequest https://qualla.com/bury-art-museum/ Photo credit J. M. W. Turner, Public domain. Wrigley belonged to the generation of Lancashire industrialists who made improbable fortunes from cotton, paper, and iron in the middle of the nineteenth century - and then turned, sometimes uneasily, to collecting art. His taste was Victorian in the best sense: narrative paintin...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/bury-art-museum-wp/gcw2-bury-art-museum-the-wrigley-bequest.mp3 0:06 2 full Bury Art Museum: The Lowry Scandal https://qualla.com/bury-art-museum/ Photo credit Philip Platt, CC BY-SA 2.0. Donations followed the museum's opening, including a substantial gift from James Kenyon, the town's Member of Parliament. By the 2000s the collection ranged from Joseph Noel Paton's Dante Meditating through twentieth-century works by Victor Pasmore and Edward Burra. In 2006, the ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/bury-art-museum-wp/gcw2-bury-art-museum-the-lowry-scandal.mp3 0:06 3 full Bury Art Museum: Renamed and Renewed https://qualla.com/bury-art-museum/ Photo credit Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0. The buildings were restored and reopened in 2005, and the institution was renamed Bury Art Museum in 2011, dropping the older title of Bury Museum and Art Gallery. The recent renovations carry a strange, knowing humour about what now counts as collectable: among the modern artefa...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/bury-art-museum-wp/gcw2-bury-art-museum-renamed-and-renewed.mp3 0:06 4 full Bury Art Museum: A Sculpture Centre https://qualla.com/bury-art-museum/ Photo credit Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0. In its present form the museum styles itself the Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, reflecting a growing emphasis on contemporary three-dimensional work alongside the Victorian paintings. The town of Bury sits at the northern edge of Greater Manchester, where the Pennines begi...

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