High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Royal Museum and Art Gallery, known locally as the Beaney Institute or The Beaney, is the central museum, library and art gallery of the city of Canterbury, Kent, England. Until it closed for refurbishment in 2009, this Grade II listed building contained the regimental museum of the Buffs (the Royal East Kent Regiment) as well as a gallery devoted to the 19th-century cattle painter Thomas Sidney Cooper.