{"id":315697,"date":"2026-03-06T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:30:07","slug":"southampton-city-art-gallery-to-reopen-after-2m-refurbishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315697\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton City Art Gallery to reopen after \u00a32m refurbishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a great moment not just for Southampton, but also for the whole country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chairman of Arts Council England, Sir Nicholas Serota, thinks that the imminent reopening of the Southampton City Art Gallery shows the country&#8217;s arts scene is in rude health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacing some of the roof, windows and other structures cost \u00a32.23 million, the vast majority of the money coming from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport&#8217;s Museum Estate and Development Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The gallery was closed a little over a year ago the building could be refurbished. It will open again on Saturday, March 7th. Admission will remain free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is a great moment not just for Southampton, but also for the whole country.&#8221; The Chairman of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-315697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}