The Lowry

This award-winning modern building contains two theatres and a large art gallery, with many works by L.S. Lowry (1887-1976). When he was 22 his family moved from a leafy suburb to Pendlebury, an industrial district of Salford; he detested but then became fascinated by its landscape. Initially he tried to paint in the Impressionist style but the results were gloomy, so he took to using a flake-white ground, and populated the scenes with his characteristic "matchstick men". He also secretly painted the disturbing "marionette" works, only found after his death, and only displayed on request.

• museum
• family

Address

Pier 8, The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ

Hours

Sun-Fri 11AM-5PM, Sat 10AM-5PM

Price

Gallery is free

Website

thelowry.com (opens in a new tab)