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 ...

The Whitworth is proudly part of The University of Manchester, operating as a convening space between the University and the people of the city. It was founded in 1889 as The Whitworth Institute and ...

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 ...

Artist Cornelia Parker has teamed up with a Nobel Prize-winning scientist to turn fragments of drawings by Picasso, Constable and Turner into a new artwork for Manchester's Whitworth gallery.

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 ...