The purpose-built gallery is home to a notable collection of permanent works, from Old Masters to 20th Century British painters and sculptors.
The interior is broken up into 12 purpose-built galleries, intimate yet interlinked, ranging in size from around 600 square feet to 3,500 square feet.
Lord Rosebery practised his speeches here, in a purpose-built gallery.
Today, Turbinia is housed in a purpose-built gallery at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle.
In 2006-07 a purpose-built gallery was set up in the Norton Priory Museum to accommodate it.
It is housed in a purpose-built gallery on the first floor of the University's Faculty of Classics.
The gallery is thought to be the largest purpose-built gallery to open in the United Kingdom since 1968.
A separate purpose-built gallery contains the medieval sandstone statue of Saint Christopher, which is considered to be "a work of national and even international importance".
A purpose-built gallery for the Nolan collection was built in the grounds in 1980.
In 1843, the Royal Institution's collection was displayed in a purpose-built gallery next to the Institution's main premises.