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Hugh Broughton Architects has completed a new gallery on the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire.

The new gallery, which officially opens to the public on 20 March 2016, will show changing displays of the historic Portland Collection, one of the finest accumulations of paintings, sculpture, books, tapestries and furniture in private hands in Britain. The collection includes Michelangelo’s rarely seen Madonna del Silenzio (c.1538) and the pearl earring worn by Charles I at his execution in 1649 – and many of the works have not been on public display until now.

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• Architects: Hugh Broughton Architects
• Project: The Harley Gallery
• Location: Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
• Photography: Hufton+Crow
• Client: The Harley Foundation
• Client Advisor: Malcolm Reading Consultant
• Exhibition designers: Ronayne Design
• Structural Engineers: Price and Myers
• Services Engineers: AECOM
• Quantity Surveyors: Ridge
• Lighting Designer: Speirs and Major
• Acoustic Consultant: Ramboll
• Landscape Consultant: Dominic Cole Landscape Architects
• Design: March 2012 – January 2014
• Construction: April 2014 – November 2015

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