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.
Changing Lives Through Art
Featured Exhibitions and Events
Upcoming Featured Events
Lauren Child: The Art of Illustration
Step inside the joyfully eclectic world of Lauren Child MBE, award-winning author, illustrator and Waterstones Children’s Laureate (2017-2019). Best loved for her fictional series, Clarice Bean and Charlie and Lola, Lauren Child’s vibrant collage illustrations and witty narratives have charmed and amused children and adults alike for nearly twenty years. This exhibition celebrates the art of Child’s illustrations and her love of pattern, colour and textiles. It features works from her original stories as well as her recent re-imaginings of…
Graham Fagen: The Slave’s Lament
Written in 1792, The Slave’s Lament is Robert Burns’ only work that communicated the appalling realities of the transatlantic slave trade. Despite being more than 200 years old, the song brings the social, political and human tragedies of today into sharp focus. Performed by the Scottish Ensemble and reggae singer Ghetto Priest, artist Graham Fagen’s contemporary interpretation connects Scottish and Caribbean history through these seemingly disparate musical cultures. Presented across four screens, the result is both haunting and melancholy, yet…
Collecting Craft
This display highlights a lifetime of collecting contemporary crafts including the best of British silver, textiles, ceramics, furniture and glass. Including many well-known makers such as Edmund de Waal and Lucie Rie often with a particular focus on early-career works, the display is a celebration of commissioning and supporting emerging makers and of the outstanding work produced by generations of British craftspeople.
Edouard Vuillard The Poetry of the Everyday
★★★★ 'worlds of thought and feeling' The Telegraph ★★★★ 'dazzling show' Mail on Sunday ★★★★ ‘a beguiling collection’ The i ★★★★ 'an artist's world encompassed... dizzying pattern and colour' The Arts Desk ★★★★ ‘his best paintings’ TheArtlicker The Holburne presents an extensive exhibition of works by Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), including many that are rarely publicly displayed. Vuillard was one of the leading figures in French art at the end of the 19th-century. Famed for his small, subtle studies mostly of…
Jazz Gig: Jim Blomfield Trio
£15
The Jim Blomfield Trio bring a night of jazz to the Holburne café . Featuring Jim Blomfield (piano), Roshan 'Tosh' Wijetunge (bass) and Mark Whitlam (drums), the Trio's past collaborations read like a who's-who of the UK jazz scene. Drawing their influences from Rock, Drum and Bass, Latin and Contemporary jazz and Classical Piano, the Trio will perform two sets of evocative melodies and adventurous improvisations. Bar open for drinks 6 - 8.45pm.
In Conversation: Alastair Sooke & Chris Stephens
£15
Join art critic and BBC broadcaster, Alastair Sooke, in conversation with Holburne Director, Chris Stephens, as they discuss the work of 19th-century French painter, Édouard Vuillard, in celebration of our major exhibition, The Poetry of the Everyday. “For all their quiet modesty, and debt to traditional domestic interiors by Vermeer, Vuillard’s ‘intimiste’ paintings (as they are known) have a surprisingly radical quality” – Alastair Sooke, The Daily Telegraph (2018) 6 to 7pm: Exhibition free to access and Garden Café open…
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Hear Why Museums Matter
Following our sell out evening with Tristram Hunt (Director, V&A), Maria Balshaw (Director, Tate), Sonia Boyce (artist and academic) and…
Forest of Imagination 2019
Forest of Imagination 2019 20 to 24 June Forest of Imagination is a collaborative, creative partnership. Discover a free, fantastical…
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At the heart of the Holburne Museum is the collection of Sir William Holburne (1793-1874), fifth baronet of Menstrie.
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