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  SGMT - Millennium Galleries
The gallery is a welcoming space and is a far remove from the often foreboding and institutional appearance of traditional galleries.
The Millennium Galleries, together with the Winter Garden and the Peace Gardens form Sheffield’s Heart of the City Project, that is transforming the centre of the city.
The Millennium Galleries is situated in the centre of Sheffield on Arundel Gate, opposite Sheffield Hallam University and next to the Novotel.
www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk /coresite/html/millennium.asp   (860 words)

  
 Millennium Galleries, Sheffield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The galleries will, inevitably, be compared with Kahn’s Kimbell for their calm dignity and skilful use of natural light but, as Pringle explains, they make use of a highly original daylighting strategy – light from a clerestorey level is bounced off reflectors set at the edge of the vault on to the white concrete.
The Millennium Galleries are seen as part of a regeneration programme, the key link in a new cultural quarter which includes the city’s Graves Art Gallery and the Crucible and Lyceum theatres, with the heavily populated campus of Hallam University nearby.
In contrast, the Millennium Galleries are uncompromisingly democratic spaces, their prefabricated modular construction expressing their non-hierarchical character, which invite the public to enter, pass through or linger according to their inclinations.
www.prsarchitects.com /images/sheffield_gal/press01_text.html   (1996 words)

  
 Health & Safety Laboratory - Case Studies
Clearly, certain areas of the Galleries flooring might become wet: for example the entrance foyer and lavatories, or, in the case of the cafe and bar, have drinks spilt on the floor.
A substantial area of matting was installed in the foyer to absorb water brought in by the public on wet days, and the flooring in areas of gallery where fluid contamination was likely was treated with an acid etching process to improve slip resistance in the wet by roughening the surface.
The Galleries opened to the public in April 2001 with displays tracing the history of the cutlery industry in Sheffield and a major exhibition of items loaned from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
www.hsl.gov.uk /case-studies/millen.htm   (413 words)

  
 Tate National | Partnership Scheme
The Millennium Galleries (shown above) opened in April 2001 to widespread public and critical acclaim and marked the beginning of a renaissance in the city's cultural life.
The Millennium Galleries lead into the adjoining Winter Garden one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be built in the last 100 years, where visitors can relax and enjoy stunning flora and vegetation from the southern hemisphere.
The Graves Art Gallery is a beautiful 1930s gallery that has permanent displays of nineteenth and twentieth-century British and European art and shows historical, modern and contemporary exhibitions across the spectrum of art forms.
www.tate.org.uk /national/partnership/sheffield.htm   (733 words)

  
 The youth vote - Sheffield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Sheffield Millennium Galleries, described as 'the cultural flagship of a £120m project to regenerate Sheffield as a centre for modern living', opened on April 5 this year.
The first gallery was occupied by the Victoria and Albert's travelling exhibition, Precious, the only part of the building that the public have to pay to enter.
Museums and galleries must still find ways to draw young people in, but at least venues like this suggest such places can be interesting and relevant.
www.childrens-express.org /dynamic/public/the_youth_vote_5_010701.htm   (665 words)

  
 The Millennium Galleries - Sightseeing National Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
The galleries break with the traditional institutional image of an art gallery and is a welcoming and vibrant place to be for pleasure, education and business.
The Millennium Galleries have been created as part of the Millennium regeneration project and can be found in the centre of the city opposite the Sheffield Hallam University.
Entry to the majority of the galleries is free and a visit is highly recommended for both adults and families.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /sightseeing-national/the-millennium-galleries   (237 words)

  
 NESTA –Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust has created a groundbreaking three-dimensional ‘soundscape’ to accompany a new interpretation of their metalwork collections housed at the Millennium Galleries’ Metalwork Gallery.
The metalwork display is the most visited part of the Millennium Galleries, one of four museums and galleries run by the Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust.
Already, the Millennium Galleries is the only regional venue to show national treasures through associations with prestigious partners including the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
www.nesta.org.uk /ourawardees/profiles/5185/print.htm   (919 words)

  
 Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects: buildings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Millennium Galleries are run in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery.
They include permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, storage and preparation spaces specified to the highest international conservation and security standards, meeting all current Government Indemnity requirements.
The buildings are highly energy-efficient, utilising a ventilated building structure and gallery spaces are all naturally lit with advanced light reflectors.
www.prsarchitects.com /images/sheffield_gal/index.html   (167 words)

  
 Sheffield Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Published: Friday, 2 November 2001, 11:29 AM THE Millennium Galleries is an exciting new venue for the visual arts, craft and design - far removed from the stuffy old image of art galleries.
In the Ruskin Gallery is a collection of paintings, drawings, minerals and prints brought together by John Ruskin, one of the 19th-centuries most significant figures.
Galleries visitors are able to park here at a reduced rate of £3 for 3 hours.
www.sheffieldtoday.net /mk4custompages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=25297   (309 words)

  
 Sheffield City Council - Millennium Galleries
The Galleries are an inspiring and energetic centre for visual art, craft and design, displaying fantastic exhibitions of national treasures alongside the city’s unique metalwork and decorative art collections.
Conveniently located near to car parking and transport facilities, the Millennium Galleries is a stunning setting for your function whether a company meeting or lavish reception.
A venue with flexibility and an imaginative catering service, the Millennium Galleries enables guests to tailor events to their individual requirements with menus ranging from canapés to buffets and formal banqueting.
www.sheffield.gov.uk /index.asp?pgid=8339&mtype=print   (206 words)

  
 Gleams of steel and silver: the opening of a sparkling new Metalwork Gallery display in the Millennium Galleries in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gleams of steel and silver: the opening of a sparkling new Metalwork Gallery display in the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield is the latest manifestation of the revitaJisation of the city's museums, Philippa Glanville discusses the gallery and explains how this renaissance has been achieved
The Millennium Galleries are in effect a sophisticated cultural centre, built by the city and run by the private sector Museums and Galleries Trust.
The city handed over the annual museums and galleries budget from April 1998 and the new trust devised the contents of the Millennium Galleries, which it now runs.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_523_162/ai_n15930835   (841 words)

  
 Sheffield Galleries & Museums trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Millennium Galleries is a recent venture for the visual arts, craft & design right in the heart of Sheffield.
Elegant and innovative, the gallery breaks with the traditional institutional image of an art gallery and is a welcoming and vibrant place to be for pleasure, education and business.
Admission to the Millennium Galleries is free, apart from shows at the Special Exhibition Gallery, for which there is a charge of £4 (£3 concession, £2 child).
www.netheredge.org.uk /str4/galleries.htm   (163 words)

  
 Millennium Imagery Digital Works
Millennium Imagery offers graphic design from concept to camera-ready copy, or we will take it to press and ship it to you, depending on your needs.
The Digital Gallery isn't always going to be about work, as we like to have fun as well.
So check the various galleries as the work is rotated when we feel like it.
www.oliver.nxs.net /digital.htm   (124 words)

  
 BBC - South Yorkshire - Culture - Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
The vibrant Millennium Galleries host high profile national, touring and local exhibitions.
With a bright luncheon area and a vibrant foyer that includes two large escalators and open access to the downstairs exhibition area, the Galleries are ideal to look at rare collections and art that are on tour nationwide.
Part of an ongoing project in Sheffield City Centre the galleries are ideal for newcomers to the city to get a feel of Sheffield’s cultural essence and determination to promote its homegrown talent.
bbc.co.uk /southyorkshire/culture/venues/g_m/millennium_galleries.shtml   (137 words)

  
 .:sheffield city council:.
This was followed in 2001 by the opening of the greatly acclaimed Millennium Galleries.
The Winter Garden completes the public aspect of the project and together with the Millennium Galleries forms a new architectural icon for the city.
The Winter Garden and Millennium Galleries were designed together by the same team, Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects.
sccplugins.sheffield.gov.uk /winter_garden/crowning.htm   (339 words)

  
 Millennium Galleries - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Admission to Millennium Galleries is free, except for special exhibitions.
The Ruskin Gallery is home to the impressive Guild of St. George Collection which contains an array of paintings, drawings, photographs, books, and minerals, all of which illustrate the beauty of the natural world or the skill of craftsman and artists.
The Special Exhibition Gallery shows blockbuster exhibitions from national galleries and museums such as the V&A, Tate and the National Portrait Gallery.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum/AM9611.html   (603 words)

  
 Art Sheffield Exhibitions
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of internationally renowned creative agency, onedotzero, this screening on Millennium Galleries’ plasma screens looks back over a decade of progressive digital filmmaking.
Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust have made a new acquisition of a piece of contemporary art for the city.
As part of Lovebytes at the Millennium Galleries, poet Chris Jones shows new work exploring the relationship between geographical and psychological maps of Sheffield's city centre.
www.artsheffield.org.uk /listings.php?list=Exhibitions   (1042 words)

  
 City of Sheffield: Culture (Theatres and Museums)
The Graves is part of Tudor Square, in the centre of the city, with the new Millennium Galleries (incorporating the Ruskin Galleries) is nearby on Arundel Gate.
The Mappin is easily accessible and adjacent to this City Museum, in the grounds of Western Park, close to the University of Sheffield.
Millennium Galleries (note the Ruskin Galleries are now part of the Millennium Galleries).
www.shef.ac.uk /city/art.html   (300 words)

  
 Chicago, Illinois @ BuyTexasart.com (Buy Texas Art)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Oriental Institute, part of the University of Chicago, has an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern archaeological artifacts, while the Freedom Museum is dedicated to exploring and explaining the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Other museums and galleries in Chicago are the Chicago History Museum, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
Millenium Park is a monument that was intended to be finished at the turn of the 21st century, though it was delayed for several years.
www.buytexasart.com /encyclopedia/Chicago,_Illinois   (6636 words)

  
 Sheffnet - Millennium Galleries
Occupying a prime city centre site between Tudor Square and Arundle Gate, the galleries is the cultural flagship of the £120 million 'Heart of the City' regeneration project which began with the remodelling of the Peace Gardens and is about to see the demise of the Town Hall Eggbox.
The galleries have been built at a cost of £15million with funding from the Millennium Commision, and have been completed on time and on budget (although contractors were buzzing around putting the finishing touches to the building right up to the last minute).
Undoubtably the most talked about aspect of the Millennium Galleries is the partnership with London's Victoria and Albert museum which will see major exhibitions brought to the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
www.sheffnet.co.uk /?contentid=425   (519 words)

  
 Whats on at Galleries - event/venue guide, box office & ticket info
The Mall Galleries is one of the few London venues to show the work of well-established British artists alongside that of up-and-coming students and young unknown painters.
The Millennium Galleries and Winter Garden are leading the way.
The Milennium Galleries is Sheffield´s most inspiring and energetic centre for visual art, craft and design.
www.britevents.com /events.asp?venue=Galleries   (223 words)

  
 Millenium Galleries Sheffield - Sheffield venue guide - Itchy City Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Calling anything ‘Millennium’, be it building, bridge or chip shop, had already become a cliché by, well, by the millennium.
Anyway, name aside, Millenium Galleries is a welcome addition to Sheffield, both architecturally and culturally.
Well done sheffield City council on not only the gallery but the Winter garden in which it is housed.
www.itchysheffield.co.uk /venues/360.html   (311 words)

  
 Sheffield City Guide
Together with the adjoining Winter Garden the Millennium Galleries are the crowning glory of the Heart of the City project and of Sheffield.
Victoria Quays was one of the first parts of the city centre to be redeveloped creating a mixed-use public area with commercial, residential and retail developments and a range of leisure activities.
The project won a Millennium Marque award in 2001 in recognition of its efforts in achieving environmental excellence.
www.british-publishing.co.uk /Pages/Sheffield/city.html   (2335 words)

  
 Millennium Galleries, an Attraction in Sheffield, -Information Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
With 4 different galleries under one roof the Millennium Galleries has something for everyone.
Be dazzled by Sheffield's magnificent and internationally important collection of decorative and domestic metalwork and silverware.
Discover the Ruskin Gallery with its wonderful array of treasures collected by Victorian artist and writer John Ruskin.
www.information-britain.co.uk /printplace.cfm?Place_ID=3124   (117 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | | Palace and Mosque, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
Or you could narrow it down to the phenomenal selection of objects owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum that have spent the past two years touring America and Japan.
Sheffield is the only European stopping point for these treasures before they are installed in the V&A's new Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art in July.
It is a stupendous selection of items, ranging from a tiny brass astrolabe to an enormous carpet, yet it all centres round a modest glass beaker that has somehow survived for over 700 years.
arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,,1698583,00.html   (361 words)

  
 Spin Sheffield Millennium Galleries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Millennium Galleries, together with the Winter Garden and the Peace Gardens form the core of Sheffield's Heart of the City Project.
Built on two levels, there is an internal 'avenue' which leads from the entrance on Arundel Gate to the Winter Garden off which are four galleries on the upper level.
The Special Exhibition Gallery hosts a wide range of major blockbuster exhibitions, giving visitors the opportunity to enjoy national and international masterpieces from places like Tate and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
www.spinsheffield.com /tourtext.php?id=20   (116 words)

  
 The European Design Show at Sheffield Millennium Galleries - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
With an awesome selection of modern design from across the continent the European Design Show at Sheffield’s Millennium Galleries is an exhibition of style, innovation and sophistication.
Upon entering the cool space of the elegant Millennium Galleries you are at once confronted by a marvel of modern design, a Formula One racing car.
Millennium Galleries, Arundel Gate, Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 2PP, South Yorkshire, England
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /exh_gfx_en/ART37718.html   (715 words)

  
 Virgin Trains - What's on
Part of Sheffield's Heart of the City project and directly connected through Arundel Gate to the Winter Garden, the Millennium Galleries offer a 21st-century approach to enjoying the visual arts.
The Craft and Design Gallery is the largest exhibition space of its type in the region, exhibiting exciting new work by contemporary makers and designers.
The Exhibitions Gallery hosts top quality touring exhibitions and the Ruskin Gallery contains a unique collection of minerals, paintings, drawings, ornithological prints, Medieval manuscripts, books and architectural plastercasts assembled by revered Victorian artist, writer and critic, John Ruskin.
www.virgintrains.co.uk /eventdetail/popup.aspx?eventid=110763   (184 words)

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