As well as playing host to many works by BarbaraHepworth - together with equally-famous local lad Henry Moore - the gallery will also be the new home for Wakefield's art collection which, until recently, was held in a small Victorian town house on the other side of the city.
These include pieces by important 20th-century masters: Gaston Lachaise, Constantin Brancusi, Jacques Lipchitz, BarbaraHepworth, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, George Rickey, Richard Serra, David Smith, Mark di Suvero.