Platt Hall has been a house of collections for nearly a century. From 1947-2017, it was home to Manchester Art Gallery's world-class collection of fashion, dress and textiles. Before that, during the 1920s and 30s, all manner of things from the Gallery's wider collections could be seen here. Victorian paintings and Greek and Roman pottery were shown in the ground floor East Pavilion. Domestic objects, home crafts and handicrafts occupied the first floor rooms. And the rest of the building housed the Charles Rutherston Collection of modern paintings, prints and drawings, available on loan to local art schools and colleges.
Collections remain central to the Platt Hall project. We believe that objects and artworks have a unique capacity to inspire curiosity, spark conversations, and foster understanding - in short, they can bring people together in new and unexpected ways.
So, as our conservation team works on the long-term preservation of the costume collection for eventual relocation, we are exploring the Gallery's wider collections together to inform conversations, ideas and future plans, in the process shaping the Platt Hall Collection of the future. |
What people love is a reflection of themselves. So artefacts that reflect lots of different cultures…a range of people. Things that make them feel good about themselves.” |
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