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Exhibition
May 25, 2018 – September 16, 2018 all-day
The National Trust owns some of the finest paintings in Britain by Dutch masters of the Golden Age. Normally seen in the rooms of country houses, the best of these seventeenth-century paintings will be displayed together in a gallery for...
Exhibition Featured Music
May 25, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Enjoy after-hours access to our galleries and garden as we stay open until 9pm on the last Friday in the month. Relax with friends and a drink, share some nibbles and enjoy music in the Garden Café throughout the evening....
Lunchtime Concert Music
June 12, 2018 @ 1:10 pm – 1:50 pm
“I will sing of my Love”: Scottish and English 18th century Songs for Voice and Historical Harps Anne Lewis and Bill Taylor present a programme of Scottish and English 18th-century songs, airs and dance tunes for voice and historical harps....
Exhibition Talk
June 13, 2018 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
JoinGeorgia Powell, Curator of the exhibition Made for the Table , to find out about the inspiration for the display. Discover more about the contemporary silver from the Goldsmiths’ Company Collection as well as the objects dating back to the sixteenth century....
Exhibition Featured
June 14, 2018 – October 21, 2018 all-day
Discover the eclectic collection of art formed by Miss Ellen Tanner following her journey to the Middle East in the 1890s. From sumptuous textiles to delicate carved woodwork and lacquer and elaborately decorated metalwork, this collection is on display for...
Adults Exhibition Tour Workshop
June 22, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
What does a work of art taste like? Does a painting have a unique smell? Enjoy a sensory exploration of different works of art through taste and smell with award-winning food historian Tasha Marks, founder of AVM Curiosities.This Aroma-Tour will...
Exhibition Featured Music
June 29, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Drawn to the Holburne Discover the art of drawing in this vibrant Up Late curated by students and staff from the Bath School of Art and Design. Join us for an eclectic mix of pop-up talks, life drawing, hands-on art...
Lunchtime Concert Music
July 3, 2018 @ 1:10 pm – 1:50 pm
Consonant Connections: A musical perspective on 17th century Anglo-Dutch relationships Explore seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch music in this lunchtime recital. In honour of our temporary exhibition, Prized Possessions, this recital looks at Constantijn Huygens – musician, poet, art connoisseur and statesman (and...
Adults Workshop
July 14, 2018 @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
This one-day silversmithing course will introduce you to some of the basic techniques of silversmithing. Led by Penelope Makower, Principle of the Bishopsland Educational Trust, you will create a unique hall-marked silver ring of your own design. Bishopsland is a...
Exhibition Music
July 27, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Enjoy after-hours access to our galleries and garden as we stay open until 9pm. Join Bath Spa curatorial students for a performance painting intervention on the Holburne front lawn! Then relax with friends and a drink, share some nibbles and...
Exhibition Music
August 31, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Enjoy after-hours access to our galleries and garden as we stay open until 9pm on the last Friday in the month. Relax with friends and a drink, share some nibbles and enjoy music in the Garden Café throughout the evening....
Lunchtime Concert Music
October 3, 2018 @ 2:10 pm – 2:50 pm
Experience the music of the Georgian stage! Florentine Arts Ensemble present an invigorating programme of music that explores the challenges faced by 18th-century performing artists. Discover the public’s attitude toward music and the theatre, and the development of what became...
Exhibition Featured
October 5, 2018 – January 20, 2019 all-day
By bringing together some of Thomas Gainsborough’s finest portraits of his friends in the theatre, this exhibition will create a conversation between the leading actors, managers, musicians, playwrights, designers, dancers and critics of the 1760s-80s. Gainsborough & the Theatre explores...
Adults Learning Workshop
October 10, 2018 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Celebrating World Mental Health Day FREE DROP IN EVENT Come for coffee, cake and a chat! Enjoy a friendly guided tour around the museum as well as beautiful creative activities. For further info: l.campion@holburne.org . Complete list of World Mental Health...
Families Family Workshops Learning
October 31, 2018 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Museums Week FREE HOLIDAY DROP-INS Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 October 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30-3.30pm Spooky Stage Sets Make a mini stage-set complete with ghastly ghouls and scary skeletons. Then have hours of fun creating your own plays at home. Halloween...
Exhibition
November 2, 2018 – January 27, 2019 all-day
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a collector and lover of the antique, and his sculpture was influenced by his admiration for classical art. Alongside works from the British Museum and the Holburne’s own collection, this display will show The Thinker alongside...
Exhibition
November 2, 2018 – January 27, 2019 all-day
One of the nation’s most loved paintings, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is also one of the great portraits of British art. The image speaks powerfully to the eighteenth-century conversation pieces in the Holburne’s own collection as well as...
Exhibition Workshop
November 3, 2018 @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Enjoy a rigorous portrait-drawing class with renowned artist, Saied Dai. Inspired by Gainsborough & the Theatre this workshop is designed for those looking to establish a firm and intelligent foundation in drawing for a lifetime of creative practice. View Gainsborough’s...
Evening Lecture Exhibition Talk
November 3, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Enjoy two talks for the price of one as we celebrate our exciting new display, Rodin: Rethinking the Fragment. Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker: Revolutionizing Modern Art It is hard to believe that Rodin’s most famous sculpture,The Thinker, began life as...
Adults Exhibition Featured
November 24, 2018 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
For one night only, immerse yourself in the colourful world of the Sydney Hotel, the Holburne’s original manifestation in the late 1700s* and experience an eclectic mix of live music, dance and card games in our galleries. Sample gin cocktails...
Families Family Workshops
December 1, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Saturday 1 December, 12 noon – 4pm FREE Enjoy an afternoon of pantomime-themed Christmas creativity. Make a fairy godmother for your tree, a Peter Pan snow globe and a Cinderella’s carriage table decoration. Come…and all your wishes will come true!
Film
December 1, 2018 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Join us for a screening of Jack Hazan’s ground-breaking 1974 biopic of David Hockney (cert 18). Taking its title from Hockney’s most famous Californian swimming pool painting, this film tells the story of how Hockney was left struggling to paint...
Exhibition Talk
January 23, 2019 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Advance Booking Recommended Back by popular demand! Holburne Director, Chris Stephens will be delivering his recent sold-out talk on David Hockney in the last week of the painting’s display at the Museum. Holburne Director Chris Stephens, co-curator of last year’s...
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