Visit the New Art Gallery for a tour of exhibitions and collection & art appreciation session exploring a Turner masterpiece.
A Look Club return visit to one of our favourite art museums - The New Art Gallery Walsall - for a tour of exhibitions and displays, followed by an art appreciation session exploring a Turner masterpiece!
Head of learning at the gallery, ALex Jolly, will be showing us around the exhibitions JOY in the community gallery, Earthbound, as well as teh Landscape room in the main collection.
Following lunch in the on-site Costa, we'll be enjoying exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the paintings store for our art appreciation session, which will examine the New Art Gallery's Monet masterpiece, Le Chemin Creux dans la Falaise à Varengeville (The Sunken Road in the Cliff at Varengeville), 1882.
10.45am – arrival
11am – Welcome from Alex Jolly Tour of JOY (Community Gallery), Landscapes Room (Floor 1) and Earthbound (Floor 3).
12.40pm – Lunch
1.30pm – Explore Monet in Collections Store
2pm - Time to explore collection further if desired
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