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Holburne Museum Plant Sale

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Our popular annual Plant Sale takes place on the Coronation Weekend. In addition to many stalls and specialist nurseries selling beautiful plants and herbs, there sales for pre-loved books and handmade cards. Visitors will also be able to enjoy expert gardening advice and tips free of charge, alongside refreshments including teas, coffees, and delicious homemade cakes...

FREE

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...

Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. Members are granted free entry. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the Collection Galleries. The Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "it tugs the heartstrings and stirs the loins" The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This lavish exhibition explores the role of portraiture in the process of marriage in Renaissance Europe. Marriage...

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

Jann Haworth & Liberty Blake: Work In Progress

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

This seven-panel mural depicting 130 women from British history and culture was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery as part of a three-year project to enhance female representation in its collection. The mural, by Jann Haworth and Liberty Blake, was inspired by the absence of women in the album cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely...