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Welcome to a new season at the Holburne your ticket includes: Rossetti’s Portraits, Sunil Gupta: The New Pre-Raphaelites, ceramics from Angell & Claydon and My Kid Could’ve Done That! (at the Edge Art Centre)

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)

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...

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Hornet, hailstone, crab eye, aerodrome... (etc.)

September 9, 2021 - January 3, 2022

Aaron Angell & Steven Claydon Hornet, hailstone, crab eye, aerodrome… (etc.) 9 Sept 2021 – 3 Jan 2022 Hornet, hailstone, crab eye, aerodrome… (etc.) presents the fruits of a recent anagama kiln firing by Aaron Angell and Steven Claydon. These two leading British artists share an anachronistic...

Find out more Astrid Cooper five co-curator of My Kid Couldve Done That at the Holburne Museum Bath © Will-Cooper.

My Kid Could've Done That! At the Edge

September 18, 2021 - December 18, 2021

Until 18 December at the Edge Art Centre, University of Bath Kenneth Alme, Sara Barker, Harriet Bowman, Dicken Drury, Jesse Darling, Sean Edwards, Lilah Fowler, Ryan Gander, Jasleen Kaur, Tessa Lynch, Joanne Masding, France-Lise McGurn, Natasha McVoy, Kate Owens, Laure Prouvost,...

Find out more Blue Silk Dress (Jane Morris), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1868 © Society of Antiquaries of London: Kelmscott Manor

Rossetti's Portraits

September 23, 2021 - January 9, 2022

This autumn sees a unique show devoted to one of the giants of Victorian art – the first ever exhibition dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portraits. The Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐ You can book in advance here, or you can also just purchase tickets...

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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...

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Amber Butchart and Pre-Raphaelite Fashion

December 16, 2021 - December 16, 2021

Medieval Revivalism in Pre-Raphaelite Fashion Free Zoom Lecture with fashion historian, writer and broadcaster Amber Butchart to celebrate our exhibition Rossetti's Portraits 7pm Thursday 16 December Fashion historian, writer and broadcaster Amber Butchart delves into the fashion of the Pre-Raphaelite era to consider...

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Explore the legacy of slavery through new collection and family history research The Holburne Family and Caribbean Plantations

GET MARRIED IN THE HOME OF BRIDGERTON'S LADY DANBURY VENUE HIRE AT THE HOLBURNE

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