Nottingham - Museum & Art Gallery

Since 1878 Nottingham Castle has housed the

Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery. Among its treasures there are some beautiful Anglo-Saxon brooches (sixth century); medieval ceramics and alabaster carvings; Nottingham stoneware from the 17th and 18th century, including a "love goblet" of 1679; English household silver; drinking glasses of the 17th and 18th century; an ethnographic gallery (including New Zealand jade jewelry, Burmese bronze statues, Indo-Persian steelware); a collection devoted to the Sherwood Foresters regiment and the fighter pilot, Albert Ball (1896-1917). The picture collection in the Long Gallery includes works by Charles le Brun, Richard Wilson, William Dyce, Marcus Stone, Ben Nicholson and Epstein.