Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery

Tunbridge Wells Museum became founded in 1885 however its collection of oil paintings changed into acquired mainly after 1952. This changed into the year in which the Ashton Bequest of 31 Victorian oil art work, accumulated by means of neighborhood resident Alfred Ashton, changed into acquired. Ashton bought these works among 1852 and 1863, either from the artists' studios or after they exhibited their present day paintings at the Royal Academy or British Institution. Most of the alternative oil art work within the museum series shape part of a much broader series of local scenes in ious media. The maximum great are mid-Victorian works through neighborhood artist Charles Tattershall Dodd I.

Since the 1960s the museum has obtained and commissioned some of works through present day artists who've depicted the city's changing scenery and structure. These keep, for later generations, the historic file provided through Victorian artists inclusive of Charles Tattershall Dodd I. Tunbridge Wells Museum stocks the story of the human beings of Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding place, and the natural environment that offers a backdrop for the human tale. It capabilities natural records, archaeology, dress, toys, and the neighborhood craft of Tunbridge ware. The Art Gallery shows a extensive range of regularly converting exhibitions.