Nottingham - Museum & Art Gallery 
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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.
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.
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