CONGRATULATIONS! Walker Art Gallery celebrates 130th birthday today!

[Lisa@Museums]

The Walker Art Gallery has been inspiring visitors for over a century and on today it has reached the grand old age of 130.

In honour of this occasion, Director of Art Galleries, Reyahn King, has chosen her top ten pieces from the Walker’s permanent collection, that represent the diverse range of work at the gallery. These include works by David Hockney, Rembrandt and Monet, showing the variety of work that is housed at the Walker.

To find out Reyahn's top ten click here.

Here are the staff at the Walker celebrating its Birthday!

To read more about this you can visit the National Museums Liverpool blog, for behind the scenes info about many of the events happening at the museums and galleries.

The Walker was initially founded to display and collect contemporary art and houses work from local, national and international artists. Named after brewery owner Sir Andrew Barclay Walker who paid for its construction to commemorate his term as mayor of Liverpool, the gallery was opened on 6 September 1877 by the 15th Earl of Derby.



Events

Visitors can join in the celebrations throughout September as the gallery hosts a series of special events:

Birthday tours - Thursday 6 and Tuesday 19 Sept, 1-2pm
As part of the Walker's 130th birthday celebrations Dr Paul O'Keeffe leads a special birthday tour of the collection.
Booking: Drop-in session, no ticket required
Audience: Adults

Pete Betts, Education Officer, discusses Elijah in the Wilderness by Fredric Leighton, which was specially commissioned for the gallery in 1877.
Booking: Drop-in session, no ticket required
Audience: Adults

[Kev]

Happy bday!

[geoffrey]

Yes, and congratulations too to the blogging and website team at NML. It's always worth keeping an eye on.

Exemplary

[Ged]

A fantastic building and exhibits which mean so much to me from my childhood and time my dad worked there. I was only in there a few weeks ago, it's like time stood still though walking through those rooms, the smell of the polished floor and the creaks (not my bones). I don't know why they change the location of the pics from time to time though, like supermarkets do with their products, it must be such a mission.

Happy birthday to the Walker.

[Ged]

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/p...venue=2&id=335

Elijah in the wilderness is one of my fave paintings in the gallery. Commissioned by Kurtz who lived at Dovedale Towers, Penny Lane (then Grove House)