Gallery

Gallery may refer to:

  • An art museum (art gallery)
  • A retail art shop (also often known as an art gallery)
  • An exhibition room in a museum
  • Long gallery, an element in architecture: a long hallway or long, narrow room, frequently decorated with sculptures and frescoes
  • A narrow balcony, usually including a railing, inside or outside of a building
    • A minstrels' gallery, a balcony used by performing musicians
    • An observation deck, usually on the upper floors of a building, used to afford visitors a long-distance view
    • Gallery, in a theatre or concert hall, one or more raised seating platforms towards the rear of the auditorium — see Theater (structure)
    • In UK television production, gallery is used as a substitute for production control room
  • An audience or group of spectators
    • A peanut gallery, an audience that heckles performers
  • In mining, a horizontal passage in an underground mine
  • Gallery Project, an open source project enabling management and publication of digital photographs and other media through a web server

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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:

    Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)