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Turner Contemporary
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Margate is home to Turner Contemporary which was built in 2011. The gallery celebrates the connection with painter J.M.W. Turner. There are lots of programmes, events and a range of exhibitions
Margate’s art gallery is the jewel of the town. Free to enter and a great place to spend a day. Has its own restaurant.
This is a great place for a rainy day. Entrance is free and they always seem to have some great displays on. It is located right on Margate sea front so if the sun comes out explore the sea front and the Old Town (head down King Street off Barnacles Pub). Margate is quite hip at the moment and there's always something going on.
A national art gallery presenting a rolling programme of temporary exhibitions.
Having come to the town as a child, Turner became a regular visitor from the 1820s onwards. He declared that “the skies over Thanet are the loveliest in all Europe” and produced a number of works of Margate. Capture a famous Turner sunset. It’s this connection with Margate and Turner’s radical approach to art that was the founding inspiration for Turner Contemporary.Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851), one of the greatest British artists and “the father of Modern art” (John Ruskin, 1843), came to Margate often during his lifetime, to capture the sea, the skies and to see his landlady Sophia Booth.
Having come to the town as a child, Turner became a regular visitor from the 1820s onwards. He declared that “the skies over Thanet are the loveliest in all Europe” and produced a number of works of Margate. Capture a famous Turner sunset. It’s this connection with Margate and Turner’s radical appro…
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