A gentle, interactive and intimate session of colours, animals, space, music and fireworks...! James will perform from his collection of poems, tailoring the experience especially for an audience with profound and multiple learning difficulties of all ages. James Carter is a prize-winning poet, guitarist and educational writer. He travels all over the UK to give...
Get creative with author and poet Rachel Piercey to celebrate all the fun and exciting things that happen in a woodland year. An interactive event packed full of nature-inspired activities featuring Bear and all his friends from Rachel’s new book If You Go Down to the Woods Today. Rachel Piercey is a freelance poet, editor...
Join us for a series of hands-on, interactive activities looking at the presence and absence of women from the arts. All too often women were depicted in the visual arts to satisfy a certain (male) gaze. What happens when we disrupt these depictions, and we give women the space to tell their own stories? How...
Alex, like lots of children, sometimes worried about things – like dancing badly or getting an answer wrong in class. But unlike lots of children, every time Alex worries a real-life llama appears! And the more Alex worries, the bigger Llama grows... which starts getting him into all sorts of trouble! Join Rachel Morrisroe as...
It’s not just people that live on your street; there are animals, plants and trees too. In her new book Adoette, author and illustrator Lydia Monks (What the Ladybird Heard) tells the tale of the life of one tree from a young sapling to a mighty oak that became the beating heart of a community...
Bath-based Jasbinder Bilan is celebrated for her ability to combine poetic prose with page-turning storytelling that plunges the reader into the adventure full gusto. She writes with a vivid sense of place, drawing on her heritage, experiences and the Indian myths of her childhood. Jasbinder will tell you some of those myths and explore common...
Drinks from 6.30pm, quiz and two-course supper with wine, Saturday 8 October, £32.50 All proceeds help to support the Museum Following a thoroughly enjoyable evening last year, we are very happy to announce another quiz evening with master of ceremonies, Howard Davies, Vice President of De Beers UK, with fiendish questions to task your little...
This October half term pop-in and make a Haunted House to take away with you! Brilliant materials and lots of creative inspiration. FREE - All welcome! Workshop is suitable for children aged 5+, children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. When? Tuesday 25 October, 10 - 1 Where? The Holburne Museum, Clore...
Enjoy FREE access to our collection galleries and discounted entry to our exhibition. Our Garden Café will be open throughout the evening serving , wine, beers, and special themed cocktails. *FREE entry to museum for all* NO BOOKING REQUIRED Museum trail / Free face painting / Fancy dress competition - dress to impress us...
Join us for a morning of making and creating to celebrate Bonfire Night! In a morning workshop led by artist Holly Dabbs you can enjoy working together to make your own fantastical handmade 'fireworks'. When? Saturday 5th November 10.30-12.30 Where? The Holburne Museum, Bath in the Clore Learning room (ground floor of museum, opposite...
Come along to browse and buy from our wonderful array of good quality, hand-picked secondhand books. A wide range of subjects from art and architecture, to history, gardening, cooking and lots more. Music CDs and handmade greeting cards are also for sale. All proceeds go towards helping the Museum.
Lynn Chadwick made his home in Lypiatt Park, a Grade I listed building on the edge of Stroud. One of the giants of c.20th sculpture, Chadwick’s unique and singular work spanned 50 years and he created over a thousand pieces. His presence in the area has left a legacy of fine craftsmanship and reputation for...