The Holburne Museum

The Holburne Museum
Changing lives through art.

Welcome to a new season at the Holburne.

To help you plan your visit, please read our Visitor Charter and Q&As.

Book your day ticket in advance here. (Friends and Members no need to book in advance just show your membership card on arrival)

Our Brownsword Picture Gallery is currently closed whilst we carry out some essential maintenance. You can view the collection from this gallery here

What’s On

Unfinished Portrait of Arthur Atherley (1772–1844)

Thomas Lawrence Coming of Age

May 30, 2021 - May 31, 2022

Online Exhibition Now Open! The exhibition Thomas Lawrence: Coming of Age is the Holburne Museum's first virtual show and gives fresh insight into the first twenty-five years of one of Britain’s greatest portrait painters it includes an introductory film and rarely...

Find out more

Sunil Gupta: The New Pre-Raphaelites

September 23, 2021 - January 19, 2022

To accompany its major new exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portraits, the Holburne is proud to announce a display of photographs by Sunil Gupta that explore the legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites and their influence on contemporary art. You can book in...

Find out more

Mick Peter: Old Ghosts

January 14, 2022 - May 15, 2022

Old Ghosts is an exhibition of new work by Glasgow-based artist, Mick Peter. Old Ghosts takes a wry and affectionate look at the idea of history as an industry. In several surprising interventions, inside and outside the Holburne Museum, visitors...

Find out more

Queen Elizabeth I by Unknown English artist, circa 1588 © National Portrait Gallery, London

The Tudors: Passion, Power & Politics

January 28, 2022 - May 8, 2022

In our opening exhibition of 2022, The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics, you will come face-to-face with the five Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I - who, to this day, remain some...

Find out more

People Make Museums

January 27, 2022 - May 2, 2022

People Make Museums is a celebration of creativity and the importance of people in museums. People bring stories, memories, lived experience and ways of seeing which constantly reinvigorate and challenge museums and their collections. It is people that make museums relevant. You can...

Find out more

All Exhibitions and Events

Explore the legacy of slavery through new collection and family history research

The Holburne Family and Caribbean Plantations

BRIDGERTON Episode 101 of BRIDGERTON. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2020

GET MARRIED IN THE HOME OF BRIDGERTON'S LADY DANBURY

VENUE HIRE AT THE HOLBURNE

News

Featured Home Press

John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG 2 November 1927 to 14 January 2022

15 Jan at 12:08 pm

We were deeply saddened to hear the news that Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover had died. Like so many cultural…

The Brownsword Gallery, University of Bath

Exhibitions Featured Home

Artist Call Out

18 Nov 2021

New opportunity for artists The Holburne Museum is seeking applicants to participate in a new experimental, open submission arts programme.…

Featured Home The Friends of The Holburne

Sir Nicholas Penny talks about the relationship between public and private art

8 Oct 2021

A talk by Sir Nicholas Penny (Art historian and Director of the National Gallery 2008-15) The National Gallery and Longford…

All News

The Holburne Museum @Holburne·

19h

Coming Soon!
People Make Museums: A celebration of creativity and the importance of people in museums.
Book Now!
https://www.holburne.org/events/people-make-museums/

#myholburne #create #creativity #art #visitbath #wellbeing

Reply on Twitter 1483016577184407553 Retweet on Twitter 14830165771844075531 Like on Twitter 14830165771844075532 Twitter 1483016577184407553

The Holburne Museum @Holburne·

16 Jan

We love this list of things to look forward to in 2022, thank you @visitbath! https://visitbath.co.uk/blog/read/2021/12/things-to-look-forward-to-in-bath-in-2022-b140

#myholburne #visitbath #art #museum

Reply on Twitter 1482684246015852546 Retweet on Twitter 14826842460158525461 Like on Twitter 14826842460158525463 Twitter 1482684246015852546

The Holburne Museum @Holburne·

16 Jan

Coming Soon in 2022!
The Tudors: Passion, Power & Politics
January 28, 2022 – May 8, 2022
Tickets on sale now
https://www.holburne.org/events/the-tudors-passion-power-politics/

#TudorsOnTour #myholburne #Tudors #NPG #art #visitbath #whatsonbath

Reply on Twitter 1482654057198403587 Retweet on Twitter 14826540571984035876 Like on Twitter 148265405719840358716 Twitter 1482654057198403587