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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...

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
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

SOLD OUT – Woodchester Park House garden & Kiftsgate Court Gardens

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 private tours of two spectacular gardens. Woodchester Park House is a large Victorian Gothic building which has existed in its present form since 1874. When the Bidwells arrived...

£70

Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery

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 "Sheer pleasure everywhere you look" Ali Smith, The New Statesman This major exhibition celebrates Lucie Rie (1902–1995), one of the most accomplished and influential potters of the twentieth century....