Lightbox, Woking
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The Lightbox is a museum in Woking
which mainly focuses on art, sculpture and inventions. It was opened on 15 September 2007.
The museum has had many exhibitions including a Wallace and Gromit
exhibition, a Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition and many Artist
exhibitions. There are many hands hanging from the ceiling in The Lightbox.
History Of Woking
(first floor)
Main Exhibition hall (first floor)
Upper Exhibition Room: (second floor)
There is also a Cafe on the ground floor.
owner and local businessman, Chris Ingram.
Ingram started collecting the artwork on display after a visit to a St Petersburg museum in 1990. Since then he has collected over 200 pieces of art. Some are rare and some pieces by well-known artists are included in the collection. The collection mainly consists of sculptures rather than paintings. Some of the artwork dates back to c.1900. The sculptures are shown on a rotating timetable because at the moment (January 2011), The Lightbox does not have a room big enough to fit them all in at once.
Woking
Woking is a large town and civil parish that shares its name with the surrounding local government district, located in the west of Surrey, UK. It is part of the Greater London Urban Area and the London commuter belt, with frequent trains and a journey time of 24 minutes to Waterloo station....
which mainly focuses on art, sculpture and inventions. It was opened on 15 September 2007.
The museum has had many exhibitions including a Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series consisting of four British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations...
exhibition, a Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition and many Artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
exhibitions. There are many hands hanging from the ceiling in The Lightbox.
Rooms
There are three exhibition rooms:History Of Woking
History of Woking
Woking means " followers of Wocc ". Over time, the name has been written variously as, for example, Wochingas, and Wokynge.-Anglo-Saxon and Norman Woking:...
(first floor)
Main Exhibition hall (first floor)
Upper Exhibition Room: (second floor)
There is also a Cafe on the ground floor.
Ingram Collection
The Ingram Collection is an art collection on a long-term loan to The Lightbox from Woking Football ClubWoking F.C.
Woking Football Club is a football club from in Woking, Surrey, England, formed in 1889. They are playing in the Conference South in the 2011–12 season. For the 2011/2012 season, Woking are sharing their ground with Conference National club Hayes & Yeading United.-Promotion to the...
owner and local businessman, Chris Ingram.
Ingram started collecting the artwork on display after a visit to a St Petersburg museum in 1990. Since then he has collected over 200 pieces of art. Some are rare and some pieces by well-known artists are included in the collection. The collection mainly consists of sculptures rather than paintings. Some of the artwork dates back to c.1900. The sculptures are shown on a rotating timetable because at the moment (January 2011), The Lightbox does not have a room big enough to fit them all in at once.