Play the Museum Pop-Up Exhibition

9 May 2026 – 25 May 2026

Included in general admission tickets
Suitable for all ages
Wheelchair accessible

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Play the Museum is a pop exhibition created in collaboration with MA Fine Art Students, at Bath Spa University and the Holburne Museum. Students were invited to respond to the collection, the site and Willim Holburne’s legacy.

Running throughout the collection galleries and Space to Be. The exhibits invite people to be curious about the collection and look through the eyes of contemporary makers and artists.

There are Play the Museum Maps to help visitors navigate work at front desk.

Locations of artworks:

Front Garden

Camille Danner, Plaster hands either side of pathway leading to front door

First Floor landing

Jennifer Hamblin, Byam Family porcelain shoes and other shoes placed in the central display

Lachlan Albutt, Projection of insects (filmed at Bath City Farm)

17^th century Gallery

Harry Wilkins, TV installation of ‘unknown’ man lying on the floor in Brownsword Gallery

Posnett Gallery

Harriet Anderson, Ceramic gardening tools – In front of far window

Kate McMahon Parkes, Ceramic plate installed in Beadwork basket display cabinet

Mezzanine Stairs (window shelf)

Lucy Cummins, Hand-made books and mini-spools of thread (to hold)

Fletcher gallery

Ceramic shoes – referencing enslaved people

Space to Be (top floor)

Emma Lilwall, Open Monday 11 June – referencing the maple tree in Sydney Gardens and its links with Quaker abolitionists and those who boycotted buying plantation grown sugar (they used maple syrup as a substitute)