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Portsmouth City Museum and Records Office

 
Description: Address: Portsmouth / Hampshire / England

Newest Review: ... recommend a visit. Emerging from this room, you are then faced with a lot of stairs to climb. This is unfortunately not a place for disabled people, as there is no lift. Having reached the first floor I found that the records office was to my left and was just about to turn right when an attendant greeted me and recommended the display on the second floor. So I climbed another flight of ... more

 ... stairs and found the effort to be worth my while. The sight that greeted my eyes was an eclectic collection of traditional furniture, contemporary works of art and older pieces of porcelain. Reading the notices, it became apparent that to qualify for disp...more

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frangliz
Premium Review Portsmouth City Museum and Records Office: Art and History in Portsmouth (1383 words)
by - written on 05/05/08 (Very useful, 104 readings)
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Having said in my recent review of the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester that I did not think I could see a work of art by a major artist in Portsmouth, it is now time to set the record straight. The Portsmouth City Museum and Records Office is barely a mile from where I live, so I decided one Sunday morning to see what sort of culture there was right on my doorstep. To my surprise, I discovered a small sculpture by Barbara Hepworth as well as a work by Victor Pasmore. I therefore stand corrected. An imposing red brick building, the museum is not purpose built but a former barracks. It is situated on Museum Road, very close to the university as well as ...  Read the complete review

 

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