The Holburne Museum

Changing lives through art.

Opening Times
Open daily 10am to 5pm
Sunday and Bank Holiday 11am to 5pm
Free Entry to the Collection Galleries- Wednesday afternoons 3 to 5pm, and the last Friday in the month 5 to 9pm

General Admission £12.50/ £7 Concession
Under 18 FREE
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What's On

Instagram or be Damned

December 6, 2019 – February 9
Mark Clarke’s assemblage sculptures explore the notion of contemporary celebrity culture. Intended as works of latter-day folk art, his portraits of pop icons such as Madonna, Greta Thunberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are constructed from...

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Grayson Perry The Pre-Therapy Years

January 24 – May 25
24 January to 25 May 2020 The first exhibition to survey Grayson Perry’s earliest forays into the art world will re-introduce the explosive and creative works he made between 1982 and 1994. These ground-breaking ‘lost’ pots will be reunited for the...

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In Conversation: Lolita Chakrabarti and Dr Roger Apfelbaum

February 10 7:00 pm – February 10 8:00 pm
Join actress, director and playwright, Lolita Chakrabarti, in conversation with Dr Roger Apfelbaum (Bath Spa University) as they explore her play Red Velvet and its representation of the Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge. This event celebrates our loan of a portrait of...

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Talk: Stories from Makers of Bath

March 3 6:30 pm – March 3 8:30 pm
FREE Presented by Mytton Williams Book your free ticket through Eventbrite Inspired by Mytton Williams’ book, Made in Bath, this event is a celebration of the dynamic spirit of makers in the city. Enjoy fascinating and inspirational, PechaKucha (Japanese for chit-chat) style, talks...

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Coming Home Ira Aldridge

October 3, 2019 – March 1
On loan from the National Portrait Gallery this autumn, the portrait of Ira Aldridge (1807– 1867) will go on display in the Picture Gallery. Born in New York, Aldridge came to England in 1824 at the age of seventeen. He...

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Candace Bahouth's Box of Delights

September 6, 2019 – February 2
The Ballroom table’s Perspex box has been transformed by Candace Bahouth into a creative hot house! A riot of colour, pattern and mosaic, Candace takes the ordinary and reimagines it to create bizarre, surreal and fanciful objects....

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Grayson Perry: Self portrait cracked and warped

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Grayson Perry The Pre-Therapy Years

January 21, 2020

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We are delighted, in the run up to opening our latest exhibition, to have a four star review in the…

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Felicity Hammond Surface Treatment

November 13, 2019

Katie Jenkins

We’re excited to announce Felicity Hammond’s new site specific installation, Surface Treatment. Emerging from the waters of Cleveland Pools, Surface…

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2020 Exhibition Programme

October 31, 2019

Katie Jenkins

Grayson Perry and Canaletto exhibitions among stand-out highlights Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years 24 January to 25 May 2020 One…

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Victoria Miro @victoriamiro·

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The artist's ground-breaking ‘lost’ pots have been reunited for the first time in the new exhibition Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, now open @Holburne Museum, Bath: https://t.co/9bOKfgzRlu

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Grayson Perry: ‘Laughter and joy are more profound than pseudo-political woke b----cks’ https://t.co/pbq3ndh0VK via @TelegraphArt

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Amazing new exhibition @Holburne about Grayson

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