The York City Art Gallery first opened in 1879 for the Yorkshire Fine Art Exhibition as a temporary building. Three years later the building which houses the current gallery was built as a permanent fixture. The gallery’s collections are organised in six themes and include paintings by Etty, Basano, Turner, Snyders, Lowry, Paul Nash, Danby, Reynolds as well as sculptures and pottery. The gallery fell victim to an armed raid in 1999 when twenty paintings worth in the region of £700,000 were stolen but subsequently recovered. In 2005 the gallery re-opened after a lavish refurbishment costing £360,000.