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.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Refreshments available in the café. Concert begins at 7.30pm in the Ballroom. A Winter’s Tale - after their sell-out yuletide performance last year, this year’s talented crop of Dowland Youth Works musicians return to the Holburne for a winter’s evening of music, songs and skits from Tudor times. Directed from the...
As the days shorten and summer colours disappear from our gardens, this is an opportunity to see a wonderful exhibition tracing the development of Dutch flower painting from its beginnings in the early 17th century to the height of its popularity in the late 18th century. It features a selection of the finest examples of...
The Holburne Museum welcomes gardeners to a special occasion: Gardeners' Question Time. This will be a rare opportunity to pick the brains of our panel of experienced gardeners: Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, a garden designer and author; her books include Peonies - The Imperial Flower and The Garden, an English Love Affair. Jane has also won two...
Galliarda’s An Enlightened Heart project highlights the music and performing traditions of women in the eighteenth-century. With the inclusion of new pieces for early instruments commissioned by group members from young female composers (Jenni Pinnock and Rebecca Rowe) connect with the developing tradition of female composers today. We aim to raise awareness of the music,...
This event has now sold out Please inform us of any dietary requirements by emailing us at friends@holburne.org. Courtesy of the Holburne Museum's Friends Committee, we are offering a fantastic opportunity to visit two outstanding examples of Cotswold medieval manor houses. We will spend the morning at Owlpen, which dates back to 1450 but was...
This event has now sold out Please inform us of any dietary requirements by emailing us at friends@holburne.org. Courtesy of the Holburne Museum's Friends Committee, we are offering private guided tours of two superb gardens. In the morning we will visit Cerney House Gardens, near Cheltenham. Cerney House was built around 1660, subsequently remodelled...
Please inform us of any dietary requirements by emailing us at friends@holburne.org upon purchasing your ticket. Courtesy of the Holburne Museum's Friends Committee, we are offering a private walking tour of the amazing castle at Sudeley. Sudeley’s origins date to a 10th century Saxon manor house, in a region that was both agriculturally and...
Please inform us of any dietary requirements by emailing us at friends@holburne.org upon purchasing your ticket. Courtesy of the Holburne Museum's Friends Committee, we are offering private tours of two spectacular gardens. Woodchester Park House is a large Victorian Gothic building which has existed in its present form since 1874. When the Bidwells arrived...
*Doors open 6:30pm, refreshments available in the cafe. Concert starts 7:30pm. Two accomplished musicians bring a sparkling programme of pieces written for the beloved instruments of the 19th century salon: the fortepiano and romantic guitar. The programme will feature virtuoso and chamber music by Schubert, Rossini, Giuliani and others. Dominika Maszczyńska, in her Holburne...
Please inform us of any dietary requirements by emailing us at friends@holburne.org upon purchasing your ticket. Courtesy of the Holburne Museum's Friends Committee, we are offering a fantastic opportunity to explore the gardens of Charlton Down House and Tetbury. Charlton Down House is owned by Neil and Julie Record. Previously the focus of the...
Please inform us of any dietary requirements by emailing us at friends@holburne.org upon purchasing your ticket. Courtesy of the Holburne Museum's Friends Committee, we are offering a visit to the superb Gloucester Cathedral and Wallsworth Hall. What better way to brighten an autumnal day than boarding the Friends’ private coach to see two of...