 Herbert died in May 1957, and the museum and art gallery that bears his name was opened on 9 March 1960 by his third wife Lady Herbert.The first phase of a two-phase refurbishment was completed in 2005 with £3 million of funds from Coventry City Council, Advantage West Midlands and the European Regional Development Fund.During the refurbishment, it was considered that a painting by seventeenth-century artist Luca Giordano was too large and fragile to be moved.