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Play the Museum

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

MA Dance | MA Fine Art | MA Music Performance As part of the this Years PARTY IN THE CITY  - Bath Spa University postgraduate students respond to the collection, the space and the history of the Holburne Museum in a playful, cross disciplinary collaboration, combining artwork, music and dance. The building will be reanimated...

FREE

CANCELLED – Cosmo Fry and friends in conversation

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

*Due to unforeseen circumstances this talk has been cancelled. We are working to refund all ticket buyers via their original method of payment.   Cosmo Fry and friends will talk about his father, the inventor and entrepreneur, Jeremy Fry and his scheme to make art accessible to a wider public, the subject of the exhibition...

Day Trip to Cerney House & Gardens and Barnsley House – Sold Out

Coach Tour

This event has now sold out   Please inform us of any dietary requirements by emailing us at friends@holburne.org. Courtesy of the Holburne Museum's Friends Committee, we are offering private guided tours of two superb gardens. In the morning we will visit Cerney House Gardens, near Cheltenham. Cerney House was built around 1660, subsequently remodelled...

SOLD OUT

CANCELLED – Michael Simpson in conversation with Mark Wallinger

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

*Due to unforeseen circumstances this talk has been cancelled. We are working to refund all ticket buyers via their original method of payment.   To coincide with the first museum survey of his works on paper, we are delighted to announce that Michael Simpson will be in conversation with one of his greatest admirers, the...

£15.00

STRAVIG – an Installation at the Holburne Museum Grounds

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

This sculptural piece is a project born out of curiosity and exploration in how people interact with art and nature - a project which originally began through practising metalwork and welding skills. Its concept came from the collaboration between Josh Nicoll and Susie Beare, and was then designed by Josh. The sculpture itself was built...

Free

UP LATE – Summer of Love

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

The Holburne Future Collective is pleased to host our second Up Late: Summer of Love! Celebrating the Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits exhibition. Enjoy free entry into the collection and reduced entry into Painted Love, visitors can expect tours, portrait drawing activities in the galleries and help create a Love Wall inspired by Le mur...

£7.00

SOLD OUT – Sudeley Castle Day Trip

Coach Tour

Please inform us of any dietary requirements by emailing us at friends@holburne.org upon purchasing your ticket.   Courtesy of the Holburne Museum's Friends Committee, we are offering a private walking tour of the amazing castle at Sudeley. Sudeley’s origins date to a 10th century Saxon manor house, in a region that was both agriculturally and...

£70

So long as breath controls my being: Love and Marriage Portraiture in Renaissance Europe

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Join guest curator Lucy Whitaker for an evening of discovery and exploration of marriage portraiture in the Renaissance. The social and political implications of wedlock, its rituals and ceremonies, and the way these aspects interacted with the fine and decorative arts, will be underpinned by an ultimately elusive and current question: how to convey deep...

£15.00
Recurring

Creative Technology Weekend

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Explore the way that creative technologies including AI Computer Vision, 3D scanning and user-generated object descriptions are being used to reimagine The Holburne's  Collection.   Take part in live testing, meet creative technologists working on the project and contribute to the development of these new creative technologies.  

Free