Redeveloped "gallery in the park" up for UK's most prestigious architecture award The Whitworth, part of The University of Manchester, has today been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize following ...

The University of Manchester’s Whitworth has been crowned top large tourist attraction at the Greater Manchester Tourism Awards, on a night in which the recently refurbished gallery was also named ...

Text description provided by the architects. The Whitworth is a public art gallery founded in 1889, as the first English gallery in a park. It became part of the University of Manchester in 1958 ...

Last night, the annual Art Fund prize confirmed what we here in Manchester all knew: that our newly reimagined, 125-year-old Whitworth Art Gallery is everything a modern museum should be.

The Whitworth first opened its doors in 1889 as the Whitworth Institute and Park. The name refers to Sir Joseph Whitworth, who had died a couple of years previously, aged 83, and was a significant ...

The gallery, which forms part of the University of Manchester, was founded in 1889 as The Whitworth Institute and Park in memory of the industrialist Sir Joseph Whitworth for "the perpetual ...

The 2015 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to the Whitworth, part of the University of Manchester. The honor, which celebrates U.K. museums, follows a recent renovation of the ...

The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester has been shortlisted for Riba's prestigious Stirling Prize, 2015. ... The Whitworth, University of Manchester. Published. 7 October 2015. Share. close panel ...