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] The De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society was a gallery in the London Borough of Wandsworth,
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, which was home for a few years to the De Morgan Collection. From 2002 the De Morgan Centre provided public access to the De Morgan Collection in a dedicated gallery named the De Morgan Centre, which was based in the former West Hill Reference Library in
Wandsworth Wandsworth Town () is a district of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Toponymy Wandsworth takes its nam ...
, South West London. The West Hill Library closed on 28 September 2007 and latterly, the De Morgan Foundation shared the building with Wandsworth Museum. Both the De Morgan Centre and Wandsworth Museum closed to the public on 28 June 2014 due to the discontinuation of their lease by the building's freeholder Wandsworth Council. Since the closure of the De Morgan Centre, th
De Morgan Foundation
continues to display the collection to the public in its new museum at
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, and has long-term exhibitions at Watts Gallery - Artists' Village, and
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Defunct art galleries in London Museums in the London Borough of Wandsworth Decorative arts museums in England {{UK-art-display-stub