Woodlands Art Gallery
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Woodlands Art Gallery is housed in a Georgian villa, next door to Mycenae House, in the Westcombe Park area of Greenwich, London.
The building was built in 1774 for John Julius Angerstein, a Lloyds under-writer whose art collection was bought in 1824 to form the nucleus of the National Gallery, London. Acquired by the London Borough of Greenwich in 1967, the house opened as a Local History Library and Art Gallery in 1972.
In October 2003, the local history archives were moved to a new site on the Woolwich Arsenal site in Woolwich. Since then, there have been fears that the Gallery might have to close; the council was seeking new funding for the adjacent Mycenae House and proposals included closure of the Gallery and redevelopment of the building.