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Museums and galleries

One of the best ways of collating firsthand information/visual research is by visiting museums and galleries. Below is a list of the places you could visit.

Colour museum

SDC colour museum, PO Box 244,1 Providence Street, Bradford, BD1 2JB

Museum that covers all aspects of colour, and of the colouration industry.

Hayward gallery

Southbank, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XZ

Modern art

Leighton house

Museum 12, Holland Park road, London, WI4 8LZ

Studio home of 19th century artist Frederic Lord Leighton. Victorian art, Islamic influenced interiors.

Macclesfield Silk Museum

Park Lane, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 6TJ

Exploring all aspects of silk – production, textiles, education, and machinery.

Museum of Costume

Assembly Rooms

Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QH

A wide range of costumes and accessories dating back centuries. Regular special exhibitions.

Museum of Hatting – Hatworks

Wellington Mill, Wellington Road South, Stockport, Cheshire, SK3 0EU

Reading Museum

The Town Hall,Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1QH

Royal Academy of Arts

Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, WI0 0BD

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

East Cliff, Bournemouth, BH1 3AA

British & Japanese Art

Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG

Tate Modern

Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum of applied and decorative Arts

PittsRivers museum

South parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP

Museum of Anthropology & world Archaeology

Royal Pavilion

Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1EE, 01273 603005

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