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gallery
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + gallery
an art gallery
• a guide to the city's museums and art galleries
a picture/portrait gallery
• The picture gallery is full of treasures.
a private gallery
(= owned by a private person )
• The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States.
the national gallery
(= owned by the country )
• Edinburgh has three national galleries.
verbs
visit/go to a gallery
• The children visited the gallery on a school trip.
a painting hangs in a gallery
• Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.
a gallery is showing/exhibiting something
• The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works.
exhibit something in/at a gallery
• It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery.
gallery + NOUN
gallery space
(= area for displaying art )
• She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology.
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noun for art ADJ. art, exhibition, picture, portrait | commercial, private, public | national He offered ten major paintings to start a national gallery of modern British art. VERB + GALLERY go to, visit GALLERY + VERB exhibit sth, show sth Some of his work has been exhibited by local art galleries. | specialize in sth a gallery specializing in ceramics | close, open GALLERY + NOUN space The extension will provide 600 square metres of new gallery space. PREP. at a/the ~ The painting is now on display at the National Gallery in London. | in a/the ~ There were very few people in the gallery. in a hall ADJ. long, wide | first-floor, upper | public The packed public gallery at Teesside Crown Court erupted in a roar of approval. PREP. in a/the ~ I found myself in a wide gallery looking down on the floor below.
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