Lady Lever Art Gallery

Lady Lever Art Gallery

Lady Lever Art Gallery Building
Established	1922 (1922)
Location	Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	53°21′21″N 2°59′58″W / 53.355755°N 2.9993981°W / 53.355755; -2.9993981
Visitors	210,790 (2019)[1]
Website	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool.^[2]

The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste. It houses major collections of fine and decorative art that are an expression of Lord Leverhulme's personal taste and collecting interests. The collection is strong in British 19th-century painting and sculpture, spilling over to include late 18th-century and early 20th works. There are important collections of English furniture, Wedgwood, especially jasperware, and Chinese ceramics, and smaller groups of other types of objects, such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture. The majority of objects were part of the original donation, but the collection has continued to expand at a modest rate. The museum displays mostly mixed paintings, sculpture and furniture together, and there are five period rooms recreating typical period interiors from large houses.