Book your day ticket in advance here or just turn up on the day and purchase entry tickets at our Information desk. (Friends and Members no need to book in advance). Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the collection Regardless of their social status, most women were expected to be competent...
Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. If you're a member there's no need to pre-book. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the collection A sumptuous collection of rarely seen drawings by one of our most popular and recognisable artists The Telegraph ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Hockney at his most irresistible" Lucy...
Saturday 3 September 10am-4pm Sunshine & Clouds inspired by a 17th Century Raised Embroidery Panel at the Holburne Museum Join the Royal School of Needlework and the Holburne Museum, Bath on 3 September for this exclusive Raised Embroidery partnership class inspired by the museum’s upcoming exhibition Marvellous Makers, Wondrous Worlds; Raised embroidery from the 17th...
Director of the Holburne, Chris Stephens has worked with David Hockney several times over the last fifteen years. Rich with illustration, personal anecdote and historical facts, this talk will demonstrate how all of Hockney’s art reflects a heartfelt belief in the pleasure to be derived from the ordinary things around us, from the images of...
Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. If you're a member there's no need to pre-book. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the collection In 2019 the Holburne received a bequest of 35 objects from the estate of sculptor Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993). The artworks included sculptures, drawings, etchings,...
Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. If you're a member there's no need to pre-book. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the collection This exhibition brings together major sculptures by two of the towering figures in modern European art: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917). It focuses...
Tom de Freston is a renowned artist who creates multimedia worlds, combining paintings, film and performance into immersive creations that tell a story. In this painting workshop Tom will work with you to create a piece of artwork based on his illustrations from Julia and the Shark, the stunningly beautiful children’s book written by his...
Have you ever thought about creating your very own story based on the letters of your name? David Cadji-Newby, author of Wonderbly's best-selling, personalised Lost My Name adventure will be here providing story writing tips in this fun and interactive session for young writers. Everyone will get to take home their own personalised book! You...
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...
Watch the Museum's Director, Chris Stephens, give a tour of the exhibition. Richard Smith was one of the most innovative and celebrated painters in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Seen as the father of Pop Art, a mentor to numerous artists including David Hockney, he repeatedly sought to reinvent the language of painting....
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...