An empty set of gallery spaces are helping experts learn more about some of Liverpool’s most historic art works and the city itself.
Rooms one to four inside the Walker Art Gallery have been closed to the public since January 2020 to undergo a major refurbishment costing in the region of £4.5m. They are set to reopen on July 29 as 'Renaissance Rediscovered', a collection of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque treasures and works of art.
This collection has its origins with Liverpool collector and MP William Roscoe, who, when facing bankruptcy in 1816, sold his art collection with many being bought by the Liverpool Royal Institution. His associates and friends, part of the institution, bought many of the paintings which went on to form a core part of the Walker’s collection.
