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Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery

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👍 This was a great find as we were on a leisure walk through Stockport. Impressive building with great presentation from the street. It combines both an art gallery exhibition and war memorial. Staff were very knowledgeable and helpful with recommendations. People often mention gallery, exhibitions, memorial, Stockport, building, exhibition, lovely,


Address

Wellington Rd S, Stockport SK3 8AB, United Kingdom

Website

www.stockport.gov.uk

Contact

+44 161 474 4453

Rating on Google Maps

4.50 (180 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm
  • Sunday: 11 am to 4 pm
  • Monday: Closed
  • Tuesday: Closed
  • Wednesday: Closed
  • Thursday: 1 to 5 pm
  • Friday: 1 to 5 pm

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  • 4/5 Tim C. 10 months ago on Google
    This was a great find as we were on a leisure walk through Stockport. Impressive building with great presentation from the street. It combines both an art gallery exhibition and war memorial. Staff were very knowledgeable and helpful with recommendations.
    8 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Phil K. 6 years ago on Google
    This is small memorial but very striking when you enter, visited on rememberance Sunday and it made you proud with the amount of people that showed u p to pay there respects, the march, the band's and all of the group's were fantastic.
    5 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Patrick S. 1 year ago on Google
    Place of remembrance, and community space for art exhibitions
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Vinoth K. 2 years ago on Google
    It's heart touching and pleasant feeling also it explained the super heros who fought and faced the challenges and final success 👏
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Sophi b. 2 years ago on Google
    Really good. Was there for some art work to be reveled but had a look around, spoke to the staff all lovely helpful people. Really clean areas. Would return. Love the tea dispenser for money
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Nick W. 1 year ago on Google
    Amazing indoor memorial. Very friendly and helpful staff. Ever changing exhibitions in the galleries and all free
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Linda M. 5 months ago on Google
    Went to Artisan Market. Lovely goods and very friendly stall keepers. Good to see Art Gallery being used

  • 5/5 Sheila K. 2 years ago on Google
    Wonderfully cool & peaceful on a hot day. Visited Stockport Art Societies exhibition, a retrospective of an Art Society member & second year exhibition of Stoçkport college students. Paid my respects to the war memorial as well.

  • 5/5 Ifthicar C. 9 months ago on Google
    Absolutely glorious tribute to the heroes of war. The fallen heroes who made our lives safer and peaceful. Loved the tranquility and humbling tribute to Stockport heroes who gave their lives so we can have the lives we have at present.

  • 5/5 Dom B. 8 months ago on Google
    This war memorial cum art gallery use a hidden gem. If you have an hour to spare pop in and enjoy the galleries. Much bigger than it looks from the outside. The downstairs gallery varies it's exhibitions quite frequently with showcasing of local art. Well worth a visit.

  • 5/5 Ian B. 9 months ago on Google
    The Art Gallery has some excellent Art shows and you are often able to vote for your favourites. Definitely worth visiting.

  • 5/5 Paul C. 5 months ago on Google
    Very enlightening and emotional. S place for quiet reflection.

  • 5/5 Mark R. 10 months ago on Google
    This is Stockport's impresdive war memorial and also an art galley with some changing exhibitions

  • 4/5 Paula P. 1 year ago on Google
    Cute little gallery showcasing artwork by modern artists that you could also buy if you fancy an original piece of work and have a few hundred quid. Lady on the front desk was lovely and polite 😊

  • 5/5 Richard D. 1 year ago on Google
    Beautiful building. Kept very clean. Staff helpful. Exhibitions are always interesting . Enjoyable experience

  • 5/5 judith l. 1 year ago on Google
    A warm and welcoming place with changing exhibitions. Always something new to discover.

  • 5/5 Jessica S. 2 years ago on Google
    This is a pretty radical design for 1925 to build an internal war memorial and encorporate into it 3 art gallery rooms to enlighten the hearts and minds of those in grief! The building alone is a masterpiece. And grade 2* listed. Standing farely elevated above the rest of Stockport a top of a good flight of 20 plus steps, is this neo classical Greek temple of Apollo. Entering into a marble floored foyer with 1 wee gallery either side of it. To the right of the foyer are 2 flights of stairs with a lovely tall arched window leading to a landing with small circular ceiling window. To the right is a balcony overlooking the backroom alter room lit naturally with a much larger domed glass ceiling window, with white marble statue to the dead, with the walls flanking it covered with thousands of names of the fallen from both world wars. On the other side of the landing is the biggest gallery. Each gallery has a different artist's work on display. Which apparently changes every season. Apparently the building was also designed for a shaft of sunshine to strike the statue on the 11th of the 11th at 11am which must look farely awesome flanked by the 2 bright green marble pillars. The curator was lovely, welcoming friendly and informative. A good find. Entrance is free

  • 5/5 peter b. 2 years ago on Google
    Lovely calm and eye opening. The exhibition of aboriginal art was inspiring

  • 5/5 p.f. B. 2 years ago on Google
    A lovely space with very good exhibitions. A modern day exodus by Nick Ridehalgh is stunning & beautiful

  • 5/5 Carl N. 2 years ago on Google
    Cool place to visit. Worth a look round and the exhibits always changing

  • 4/5 karon k. 2 years ago on Google
    Some lovely, but very pricey pieces of art work in here...

  • 4/5 Fiona R. 2 years ago on Google
    A small gallery and the length of time you spend is dependent on the exhibitions. There are three exhibition rooms and one of them was in use by an art group so I didn't wish to intrude. The gallery staff are very friendly and the Gallery obviously takes pride in presenting very thought provoking exhibitions - the two I saw today focuses on displacement from home and ancestral lands.

  • 5/5 Pamela W. 5 years ago on Google
    Great tributes to the fallen. Beautiful place.

  • 5/5 Mandy C. 6 years ago on Google
    Great art gallery showing and supporting local artists, beautiful building and war memorial

  • 5/5 Louise Barson Artist (Louise Barson A. 4 years ago on Google
    Another interesting exhibition at Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery. Love dropping in here to see the displays and the team do a great job. . Let's hope it remains an art gallery with room to keep putting on their excellent exhibitions. Including the Stockport Open Exhibition which is hung in all areas and floors of the art gallery each summer.

  • 5/5 Bryan B. 2 years ago on Google
    Nice historical building


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