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Three photographs showing different tea pots in Millennium Gallery. Three photographs showing different tea pots in Millennium Gallery.

Time for Tea

Sat 14 September 2024 - Sun 7 September 2025

Millennium Gallery

This new display celebrates a great British social pastime – enjoying a cup of tea together. 

In the last year, Sheffield’s designated Metalwork Collection received two significant donations of Britannia metal vessels, designed and manufactured in Sheffield from 1780s to 1860s, including several teapots and containers for loose leaf tea. 

We’ve also been working with Xenia, a social group for women learning English in Sheffield to include their reflections on the culture of tea, alongside artworks and objects from the city’s Visual Art, Industrial and Social History collections. 

This display is made possible thanks to objects generously donated by Mr and Mrs Pert, and by Mrs Lamb on behalf of the David Lamb Collection 

 

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Opening Times

Tue–Sat 10am–5pm

Sun 11am–4pm

***The Ruskin Collection will be closed for redisplay from Sun 1 Dec and reopen on Sat 21 Dec 2024***

Millennium Gallery

Arundel Gate

Sheffield

S1 2PP

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