Mixed fortunes for West attractions
Mixed fortunes – attendance-wise – amongst our local museums and art galleries during 2012 according to Visit England’s annual Survey of Visits to Visitor Attractions. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery...
View ArticleIt’s going to be a blue (and white) Christmas at the Holburne!
Got a chance to meet Jennifer Scott – the new Director of the Holburne Museum – today and she’s very excited about the venue’s new exhibition which features the comic art of Thomas Rowlandson. He was...
View ArticleHolburne takes flight!
Artist Laura Ellen Bacon – pictured at the Holburne. Starting this week – artist Laura Ellen Bacon will transform the facade of the Holburne Museum with an intricate yet imposing sculpture. Visible...
View ArticleWillow pattern in place.
Laura Ellen Bacon’s completed installation. Click on images to enlarge. Illness prevented me from witnessing much of the work that went into installing ‘Murmuration’ – a new installation by Laura Ellen...
View ArticleRomans, A-boards and a Murmuration.
Mary Beard in Bath this week. Spotted in Bath this week. World-renowned classicist and tv Historian Mary Beard doing some shopping at the Roman Baths Museum. Not much room on this pavement?! She is...
View ArticleHolburne turns Gold
The Holburne Museum. Click on images to enlarge. Bath stone may well turn to gold in the right light but while the effect on the Holburne Museum’s facade is magical – inside they are just about to...
View ArticleFirst Impressions
The Holburne Museum Bath’s Holburne Museum celebrates its 2016 centenary with an amazing artistic line-up – including figurative works by some of the artists who exhibited at the first Impressionist...
View ArticlePark gate now open at the Holburne
Bath’s Holburne Museum has unveiled its new look for the cafe terrace and surrounding garden leading into Sydney Gardens behind this historic building. The steps down into the Holburne from Sydney...
View ArticleStubbs and the Wild
It’s no good – the temptation to use the expression ‘roaring success’ to describe the Holburne Museum’s new summer/autumn exhibition is too great a one to resist. The fact there’s a lion on the banners...
View ArticleNew Holburne Director named!
Bath’s Holburne Museum has named its new director. He’s Dr Chris Stephens – currently Head of Displays and Lead Curator of Modern British Art at Tate Britain. He will take up his new role in early...
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