Welcome to Bath’s Holburne Museum, open daily 10am to 5pm (Sunday and Bank Holiday 11am to 5pm). There’s an admission charge to visit the Holburne’s collection, displays and exhibitions on the first and second floor galleries. Admission is free from 3 to 5pm every Wednesday and from 5 to 9pm the last Friday in the month.
Welcome to The Holburne Museum
Featured Exhibitions and Events
Exhibition
February 7, 2019 – May 19, 2019 all-day
On the Ballroom table 7 February to 19 May We invited visitors and people in our local community to complete the statement ‘Museums matter to me because…’ as a way of understanding what people value about museums and how the...
Exhibition
February 8, 2019 – May 6, 2019 all-day
The Holburne is the only European venue for Shaw’s major retrospective at the Yale Center for British Art. It covers his career from 1996 to the present, including some new works never shown in the UK. Shaw’s paintings, made with...
Adults Exhibition Featured Learning Study Day
April 5, 2019 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
The Symposium is now fully booked – please email for waiting list. Friday 5 April, 10am–4.30pm £30 (includes refreshments on arrival and welcome pack) ‘Increasingly museums are an essential part of the social health infrastructure as well as the...
Exhibition In Conversation Talk
April 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Tristram Hunt (Director, V&A), Sonia Boyce, (Artist and Professor of Black Art & Design at University of the Arts London), Maria Balshaw CBE (Director of Tate) and Chris Stephens (Director, Holburne) As museums redefine their place in society,and their financial positions become...
News
In Memory of Mary Holbrook
It was with great sadness that we heard of the death this week of Mary Holbrook, Curator of The Holburne from 1967 to 1977. Under her leadership many of the seeds of the modern Holburne were sown, including the staging...
Bath Art Fair
Bath Art Fair Bath Pavilion, North Parade Road, Bath , BA2 4EU Friday 1st March 11am to 7pm Saturday 2nd March 10am to 6pm £5 on the door or half price with discounted ad or flyer The Bath Art fair...
Holburne and Edge to share contemporary art curator
The Holburne Museum and The Edge at the University of Bath have been awarded a three year grant from the John Ellerman Foundation to fund a new shared post of Contemporary Art Curator. The Holburne and The Edge at University...
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