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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170408
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SUMMARY:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Williamson Art Gallery: Williamson
  Open 2017
DESCRIPTION:An Open Exhibition has been part of the local art scene for as 
 long as most of us can remember. After Birkenhead opened its first Museum 
 and Art Gallery in 1912 there were two Spring Exhibitions but the First Wo
 rld War stopped them and the initiative was not picked up in the town afte
 rwards.\n\nThe Borough of Wallasey\, however\, did take it up and from 196
 2 a Spring Exhibition was held each year at Earlston Library. Following th
 e creation of Wirral Borough Council the exhibition became open to all in 
 Wirral but continued to be shown in Wallasey until 1983 when the first Wir
 ral Spring Exhibition was held at the Williamson.\n\nIn 1989 the exhibitio
 n was opened to photographers\, with the support of Birkenhead Photographi
 c Association who continued that support for 25 years.\n\nThe exhibition h
 as gone from strength to strength over those years and it has been a consi
 stent factor that prize winners are purchased for the gallery collections.
  In this way the Williamson has acquired some fantastic work to maintain i
 ts representation of local artists that stretches back over 200 years. Lon
 g may it continue.\n\nColin Simpson\n\nPrincipal Museums Officer\n\nDetail
 s for artists here
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 l\, CH43 4UE\, Wirral\, United Kingdom
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