A day trip to Salisbury to visit the wonderful Cathedral and admire its inspirational architecture and many fine artistic treasures, ancient and modern. We will also have an opportunity to see a special exhibition of beautiful wood engravings and to explore the Salisbury Museum with a talk by one of its expert guides. Tickets, available...
Dowland Youth Works | Laurence Williams director | Sam Brown lute Dowland Youth Works was formed in 2018 to introduce gifted young singers to the world of early music. You are warmly invited to an Elizabethan evening of songs and carols in the company of this special ensemble and their directors. Music by Byrd, Tallis, Dowland, et al. 7pm...
Join us for our first UP Late of 2022. 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 NO BOOKING REQUIRED* *Booking only required for Tudor tours (5.30pm / 6.30pm / 7.30pm) - see...
A full day trip to see these splendid properties, a few miles apart but separated by 700 years of history. We start at Woodchester an incomplete Victorian Gothic manor. From oustide, the masonry and roof look complete but inside it is hauntingly empty. Afterwards we go to Berkeley Castle (pictured) home of the eponymous family...
A Spring day in Dorset to see two of the county's finest properties, both still owned by the extended Digby family. Sherborne Castle has two incarnations, the original castle now in ruins and Sir Walter Raleigh's hunting lodge which we visit. Minterne is known as much for its gardens as its Arts & Craft House....
Come and join us for a fun day out with friends and family. There will be beautiful plants to buy, as well as books and CDs, and delicious refreshments to enjoy. Take in the beehive display and buy some honey and get free gardening advice and tips.
A full day trip to see the glorious gardens at High Glanau Manor (pictured below) and Wyndcliffe Court. Both gardens were designed by the noted gardener H Avray Tipping in the 1920s. They retain much of his original design and Arts & Crafts flourishes such as bowling green lawns and yew topiary. Tickets, only available...
A day trip to see these two very fine Gloucestershire Gardens. Almost a century separates Painswick — the country's only surviving complete Rococo garden — from Miserden, a classically designed series of garden rooms and spaces. At Painswick (pictured below) ornate follies, gazebos and pavilions are as important as the plantings. Miserden's highlights include a...
The Schantz fortepiano, acquired in 1983, is one of the highlights of the Holburne’s collection. It was made in Vienna around 1795, and is exceptionally rare, only four such instruments have survived. We have invited the internationally respected keyboard artist Nathaniel Mander, to play the Schantz for us this summer - he has chosen to...
Pop Down, Zone in, Chill out Join us for our Up Late on Friday 26 August 5pm – 9pm. During the evening you can enjoy: FREE entry to our collection galleries Reduced entry to Hockney: Love Life Cocktails in the Garden café and Terrace DJ Pablo Tinte Enjoy FREE access to our collection galleries...
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...
Come along to browse and buy from our wonderful array of good quality, hand-picked secondhand books. A wide range of subjects from art and architecture, to history, gardening, cooking and lots more. Music CDs and handmade greeting cards are also for sale. All proceeds go towards helping the Museum.
