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Brighton Museum & Art Gallery is a municipally-owned public museum and art gallery in the city of Brighton and Hove in the South East of England. It is part of "Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton and Hove". It is no longer free and charges around £5 per visitor. ==History== The building which houses the collection is part of the Royal Pavilion Estate and was originally built for the Prince of Wales, later George IV and completed in 1805. It was initially intended as a tennis court but had never been finished, and later served as cavalry barracks.〔''Catalogue of Paintings in Oil Before 1837'' (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, 1964)〕 After the death of George IV in 1830, his successor King William IV also stayed in the Pavilion on his visits to Brighton. However, after Queen Victoria's last visit to Brighton in 1845, the Government planned to sell the building and grounds. However the Brighton Commissioners and the Brighton Vestry successfully petitioned the government to sell the Pavilion to the town for £53000 in 1850 under the Brighton Improvement (Purchase of the Royal Pavilion and Grounds) Act 1850.〔Dale, Antony (1977). ''Brighton Town and Brighton People.'' Chichester: Phillimore, p.221. ISBN 0-85033-219-2.〕 In September 1851 it was announced that part of the Pavilion was to be appropriated for annual art exhibitions and two months later the first of these was held. The local talent to which it was confined included Frederick Nash and Copley Fielding. The room devoted to the exhibition was the original South Gallery, now the First Conference Room, but later the exhibitions even spread to the Great Kitchen.〔 The stable building of the Pavilion estate, adjacent to the current museum premises, was used as a museum as early as 1856.〔 It is now the site of the Brighton Dome - a performing arts venue. The museum and art gallery occupied its current situation in the building in 1902. A major refurbishment of the museum and art gallery costing £10 million occurred in 2002.〔http://www.brighton.virtualmuseum.info/〕 As a result, the traditional entrance to the museum and art gallery became the entrance of the Dome, the latter taking the museum's former entrance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brighton Museum & Art Gallery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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