The Arts and Crafts museum at the Manchester Municipal School of Art

The Arts and Crafts museum at the Manchester Municipal School of Art - A guided tour from 1903

A talk by Stephanie Boydell

Saturday 12 October 2024: 2pm for 2.15pm at Stretford Public Hall
Cost £10. Booking not essential.

Stephanie is the Curator of the Manchester School of Art Collection, Manchester Metropolitan University Special
Collections Museum (and PhD candidate). Her talk will look at the history and rationale behind the establishment of
the Manchester School of Art's Arts and Crafts Museum in 1898 and explore the variety of objects that were acquired for
display through a virtual tour of the gallery as it was arranged in 1903.

The School of Art and its museum collection are linked to some of the most celebrated names associated with the Arts
and Crafts movement, such as Walter Crane and William Morris, but also to significant cultural and political figures in
nineteenth century Manchester. Evidence from the School of Art archive, alongside the extant collections, will illustrate
the story of how this government art school came to have a museum, and how its location, in “Cottonopolis”, would
afford the school, and its museum, a unique identity, distinct from other regional schools and collections.