This article is about the museum in Ancoats that closed in 1953. For the city centre museum, see Manchester Art Gallery.
The Manchester Art Museum, also known as the Horsfall Museum or Ancoats Museum, was an art museum in Manchester, England, from 1877 until 1953. It was begun as an educational venture in 1877 by Thomas Coglan Horsfall, who had been inspired by John Ruskin to provide education and inspiration to the working classes. In 1886 the museum was moved to Ancoats Hall.[1] The collection included a wide range of items including paintings, engravings, photographs, reproductions, antiquities, ceramics, glass, metalwork, natural history specimens, and images of Manchester.
In keeping with Horsfall's moral views, no nudes were displayed at the gallery.[2] A room in the gallery was furnished by William Morris as an example of aesthetic design.[2] According to the historian Shelagh Wilson, the gallery was popular as a respectable alternative attraction to pubs and music halls, but by the early 20th century it was unable to compete with new forms of popular entertainment. When a cinema opened nearby, attendance dropped dramatically.[2]
In 1918 the museum was taken over by Manchester City Council. It closed in 1953 and its contents were absorbed into the collection of Manchester City Art Gallery.[3][1][4][5][6][7]
^ ab"Eagles, Stuart (2009) 'Thomas Coglan Horsfall, and Manchester Art Museum and University Settlement', the encyclopaedia of informal education". infed.org. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
^ abcWilson, Shelagh, "The Highest Art for the lowest People: The Whitechapel and Other Philanthropic Art Galleries, 1877-1901", Governing Cultures, Ashgate, 2000, pp.172-86.
^Manchester City Galleries – History of the Collection
^s:The Times/1932/Obituary/Thomas Coglan Horsfall
^"Manchester City Galleries - Art for All: Thomas Horsfall's Gift to Manchester". Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
^Harrison, M. (1985). Art and philanthropy: TC Horsfall and the Manchester Art Museum. City, Class and Culture, 120-47.
^Harrison, M. (1993). Art and Social Regeneration: The Ancoats Art Museum. Manchester Regional History Review, 4, 63-72.
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