Royal Pump Rooms & Leamington Spa Art Gallery
Royal Pump Rooms & Leamington Spa Art Gallery
The Art Gallery & Museum has a permanent collection of over 11,000 objects in the fields of art, crafts, sculpture, local and social history, archaeology and ethnography. Most have been donated by local people, beginning in the 1860s and continuing to the present day.
The Art Gallery & Museum has adopted Medical History as a new area for collecting since the move to the Royal Pump Rooms in 1999. This reflects the history of the building as a centre for medical treatments, especially hydrotherapy and physiotherapy, for nearly two centuries.
Photographs from the collection showing treatment rooms in the Royal Pump Rooms.
A major step forward in this area has been the acquisition of work by Damian Hirst and other contemporary artists as part of the Medicate project carried out with the support of the Wellcome Trust between 1999 and 2005.
You can search our collection online HERE.
Library
The Royal Pump Rooms also hosts a Warwickshire Library service library.
Assemby Rooms
The Assembly Rooms are a major venue for exhibitions, music and comedy shows throughout the year.