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Gainsborough Masterpiece Returns to Bath

March 30, 2020

Thomas Gainsborough started The Byam Family in the early 1760s, shortly after the wedding of George Byam and Louisa Bathurst, seen here strolling in a poetic landscape. Contemporary accounts indicate that the…

Holburne Closure

March 18, 2020

Katie Jenkins

Featured, Home, Press

Message from our Director The Holburne Museum will be closed from 18 March until 1 May 2020. Our absolute priority is always the health and wellbeing of our people – our…

Supporters Spring 2020 Newsletter

February 7, 2020

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Support Us>The Friends of The Holburne, The Friends of The Holburne

The Supporters Spring 2020 Newsletter is available now and can be viewed here.

Plants, Produce and Cakes – Help Please!

February 7, 2020

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Support Us>The Friends of The Holburne, The Friends of The Holburne

We are looking for your kind contributions of: homemade food in jars (jams, chutneys, relishes &c that will last beyond May 2020) – please contact Olivia Eliot on 01225 462156…

Grayson Perry: Self portrait cracked and warped

Grayson Perry The Pre-Therapy Years

January 21, 2020

Katie Jenkins

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We are delighted, in the run up to opening our latest exhibition, to have a four star review in the Telegraph. Alastair Smart: ‘Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, Holburne Museum,…

2019: A Year in Up Lates!

December 12, 2019

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Home, Learning and Education

This year, we have welcomed in a whopping 2,459 visitors through our doors for our Up Late events! Taking place on the last Friday of the month, from 5-9pm, our…

Felicity Hammond Surface Treatment

November 13, 2019

Katie Jenkins

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We’re excited to announce Felicity Hammond’s new site specific installation, Surface Treatment. Emerging from the waters of Cleveland Pools, Surface Treatment brings themes including architectural heritage, our built environment and…

Felicity Hammond Surface Treatment

November 13, 2019

Katie Jenkins

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Surface Treatment Cleveland Pools, Bath Saturday 23 November to Sunday 8 December Friday to Sun 12 – 5pm Felicity Hammond has created Surface Treatment, a site-specific installation that mines architectural…

Grayson Perry, Cocktail Party, 1989 Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro London/Venice

2020 Exhibition Programme

October 31, 2019

Katie Jenkins

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Grayson Perry and Canaletto exhibitions among stand-out highlights Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years 24 January to 25 May 2020 One of the most eagerly anticipated shows of the New Year…

Funding received for Pathways to Wellbeing

Funding for Pathways to Wellbeing

October 2, 2019

Katie Jenkins

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The Holburne Museum secures £200,000 funding to continue its nationally recognised Pathways to Wellbeing programme The Holburne Museum is delighted to announce funding for its nationally recognised Pathways to Wellbeing…

Ira Aldridge, after James Northcote, c.1826 © Private Collection; on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London

Coming Home Ira Aldridge

October 1, 2019

Katie Jenkins

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Born in New York, Ira Aldridge came to England in 1824 at the age of seventeen. He first performed on the London stage a year later, going on to become…

Art Strike for Climate Crisis

September 20, 2019

Katie Jenkins

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Holburne Museum puts painting on strike for #ClimateStrike The Holburne Museum has put one of our paintings, Brueghel’s Robbing the Bird’s Nest on strike today in support of the young…

Gainsborough Masterpiece Returns to Bath

Holburne Closure

Supporters Spring 2020 Newsletter

Plants, Produce and Cakes – Help Please!

Grayson Perry The Pre-Therapy Years

2019: A Year in Up Lates!

Felicity Hammond Surface Treatment

Felicity Hammond Surface Treatment

2020 Exhibition Programme

Funding for Pathways to Wellbeing

Coming Home Ira Aldridge

Art Strike for Climate Crisis

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