Museum & Art Swindon

The Swindon Art Gallery collection was established in 1944 by a local benefactor, H. J. P. Bomford, through a significant donation of artworks.

[1] Until June 2021 it was displayed in Apsley House, a 19th-century former house[2] on the corner of Bath Road and Victoria Road in Swindon's Old Town,[3] but had to leave when Swindon Borough Council decided in the summer of 2021 that the building was no longer suitable and required major repairs;[4] it had been closed to the public since March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[6] The facility reopened in July 2024 under a new name, Museum & Art Swindon, after the council spent £520,000 converting the first floor of its Civic Offices building at Euclid Street.

[10] Artists in the collection include Simon Carter, Amanda Ansell, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Graham Sutherland, L S Lowry, Paul Nash, Steven Pippin, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Richard Hamilton, Gwen John, Augustus John, Maggi Hambling, John Bellany, Tony Bevan, Ivon Hitchens, John Piper, Christopher le Brun, Dennis Creffield, Lisa Milroy, Julie Umerle, David Leach, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Gillian Ayres, Linda Ingham, Robert Priseman, Sheila Fell, Eileen Cooper, Grayson Perry and William Turnbull.

[11] At its former Apsley House venue, the museum had on display local archaeology, geology, and history.