Drinks from 6.30pm, quiz and two-course supper with wine, Saturday 8 October, £32.50 All proceeds help to support the Museum Following a thoroughly enjoyable evening last year, we are very happy to announce another quiz evening with master of ceremonies, Howard Davies, Vice President of De Beers UK, with fiendish questions to task your little...
Enjoy FREE access to our collection galleries and discounted entry to our exhibition. Our Garden Café will be open throughout the evening serving , wine, beers, and special themed cocktails. *FREE entry to museum for all* NO BOOKING REQUIRED Museum trail / Free face painting / Fancy dress competition - dress to impress us...
Art as Social Activism! Friday 25 November 5-9pm Take part in creating a large-scale mixed-media artwork inspired by Nalini Malani’s My Reality is Different. Respond to and reinterpret the Holburne ’s 18th century collection, challenging perceptions of gender, nationality, empire, and colonialism. Come, respond and create inspired by the Holburne’s collection of 18th century paintings and feel safe...
Doors open at 6:30pm. Refreshments available in the café. Concert begins at 7.30pm in the Ballroom. A Winter’s Tale - after their sell-out yuletide performance last year, this year’s talented crop of Dowland Youth Works musicians return to the Holburne for a winter’s evening of music, songs and skits from Tudor times. Directed from the...
Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. If you're a member there's no need to pre-book. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the collection This is a rare opportunity to view the complete set of woodcuts known as The Great Passion, produced by the most famed artist of the...
Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. If you're a member there's no need to pre-book. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the collection Listen to Alberta Whittle’s recording of ‘Spell for Release' and explore her suggested reading list for adults and children Fresh from representing Scotland at the...
Join artist Alberta Whittle In Conversation with curator Will Cooper for a discussion about the artist’s latest exhibition, Dipping below a waxing moon, the dance claims us for release. Drawing on their long-term working relationship, the conversation will explore Whittle’s practice of promoting self-compassion and collective care as key methodologies in fighting anti-Blackness, and how...
Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A East, will talk about one of the world’s most significant new museum projects, comprising of two sister sites currently under construction in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. As a platform for new kinds of creative excellence, V&A East will strive to shift the canon and celebrate work that truly demonstrates the dynamism and complexity of global creativity, highlighting under-represented movements and voices by presenting a diverse...
Widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer was an artist of prodigious skill and ingenuity. As one of the leading printmakers during a time of great change, his images had an enduring influence on both artistic and religious thought. Join assistant curator Eleanor Hutchison for a talk that...
The Holburne Museum welcomes gardeners to a special occasion: Gardeners' Question Time. This will be a rare opportunity to pick the brains of our panel of experienced gardeners: Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, a garden designer and author; her books include Peonies - The Imperial Flower and The Garden, an English Love Affair. Jane has also won two...
Galliarda’s An Enlightened Heart project highlights the music and performing traditions of women in the eighteenth-century. With the inclusion of new pieces for early instruments commissioned by group members from young female composers (Jenni Pinnock and Rebecca Rowe) connect with the developing tradition of female composers today. We aim to raise awareness of the music,...
Alberta Whittle, Dr Jill Sutherland, Natalie McGuire and Allison Thompson discuss the legacies of the Ball’s Plantation, owned by Sir William Holburne’s great-grandfather, Guy Ball. The conversation will be chaired by Dorothy Price. Alberta Whittle is a Scottish-Barbadian artist; she won the Turner Bursary in 2021 and in 2022 represented Scotland at the 59th Venice...
