The Mercer Art Gallery is housed in Harrogate's elegant former Promenade Rooms, near the Valley Gardens and the Royal Pump Room Museum.
Harrogate's fine art collection consists of some 2,000 works of art, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. Among them are examples by William Powell Frith, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Dame Laura Knight and Alan Davie. The gallery boasts a diverse exhibition programme featuring painting, photography, sculpture and crafts.