DOI Heft:
Nr. 188 (November 1908)
DOI Artikel:Sinclair, W.: The Ruskin museum at Sheffield
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20965#0150
The Rus kin Museum, Sheffield
“RUE DE BOURG, CHARTRES ”
( In the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield)
and as it never was intended by him to become a
permanent feature of their city he refused to con-
sider the offer. The Corporation about this time
had purchased Meersbrook Park, a short distance
from the city ; and, as it contained a disused
old Georgian mansion, an arrangement was come
to by which, on condition that the Corporation
housed the collection in
a suitable manner and
paid the salary of the cura-
tor and staff, the loan of
the collection should be
granted for twenty years,
and on these terms it was
removed thither early in
1890.
The mansion is built of
bricks of small size, now
mellowed with age, with
a roofing of slate. Stand-
ing by the library windows
a magnificent view is ob-
tained of the distant city
and terraced hills which
surround it. At the front
of the museum the ground
rises to the terraces, and
as it contains many ancient
trees, some charming walks,
128
and has even the remnants
of a trickling woodland
stream falling in its descent
through brushwood and
rocks, it certainly seems to
the visitor to be an ideal
situation for such a mu-
seum. Within recent years,
however, the Corporation
has allowed buildings to
be erected all round the
borders of the park for the
housing of its citizens, and
has thus in great measure
allowed the natural beauty
of the park to be consider-
ably diminished, not to
say destroyed.
What strikes the visitor
first of all who enters the
old-fashioned mansion in
the park is the smallness of
by t. m. R00KE the space provided for the
collection. On entering,
one finds only three small
rooms set apart for exhibits, but what is lacking in
quantity is certainly made up in quality. It is, with-
out question, one of the most valuable collections
in England, and to the lover of art it is certainly
a place of true education. The visitor cannot
fail to notice that the arrangement for instruction
is of an admirable character, for a full letterpress
THE MINERALS ROOM, RUSKIN MUSEUM, SHEFFIELD
“RUE DE BOURG, CHARTRES ”
( In the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield)
and as it never was intended by him to become a
permanent feature of their city he refused to con-
sider the offer. The Corporation about this time
had purchased Meersbrook Park, a short distance
from the city ; and, as it contained a disused
old Georgian mansion, an arrangement was come
to by which, on condition that the Corporation
housed the collection in
a suitable manner and
paid the salary of the cura-
tor and staff, the loan of
the collection should be
granted for twenty years,
and on these terms it was
removed thither early in
1890.
The mansion is built of
bricks of small size, now
mellowed with age, with
a roofing of slate. Stand-
ing by the library windows
a magnificent view is ob-
tained of the distant city
and terraced hills which
surround it. At the front
of the museum the ground
rises to the terraces, and
as it contains many ancient
trees, some charming walks,
128
and has even the remnants
of a trickling woodland
stream falling in its descent
through brushwood and
rocks, it certainly seems to
the visitor to be an ideal
situation for such a mu-
seum. Within recent years,
however, the Corporation
has allowed buildings to
be erected all round the
borders of the park for the
housing of its citizens, and
has thus in great measure
allowed the natural beauty
of the park to be consider-
ably diminished, not to
say destroyed.
What strikes the visitor
first of all who enters the
old-fashioned mansion in
the park is the smallness of
by t. m. R00KE the space provided for the
collection. On entering,
one finds only three small
rooms set apart for exhibits, but what is lacking in
quantity is certainly made up in quality. It is, with-
out question, one of the most valuable collections
in England, and to the lover of art it is certainly
a place of true education. The visitor cannot
fail to notice that the arrangement for instruction
is of an admirable character, for a full letterpress
THE MINERALS ROOM, RUSKIN MUSEUM, SHEFFIELD