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Aberdeen Art Gallery

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Aberdeen Art Gallery Celebrates 125 years


 

800px-Aberdeen_Art_GalleryAberdeen Art Gallery

Aberdeen Art Gallery is the main visual arts exhibition space in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It opened in 1885, in a building designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie.

The permanent collection including works by the Post-Impressionists and the Scottish Colourists as well as applied arts and crafts.

The central hall is supported by granite columns in a variety of colours, derived from different quarries in the local area and far beyond.  At the western end of the building, with a room inside and a monument outside, is a major war memorial.

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