A £420,000 scheme to improve cycle access between Bath Spa University’s Newton St Loe campus and the city of Bath will continue in the new year. Already B&NES has created a new cycle path alongside the A4 […]
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Month: December 2014
Last few weeks for Sassoon exhibition
Ardent admirers of the Bellville Sassoon fashion house in London have just a few more weeks left to see an exhibition at Bath’s Fashion Museum, one of the world’s leading fashion museums. The Bath & […]
Bath bridge to get art honour.
Bath’s own Victoria Suspension Bridge is back in business – after a very expensive and extensive refurbishment – and due to get its official reopening within weeks. The Virtual Museum has learned that sections of […]
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in […]
New Year greetings from the Virtual Museum
The Virtual Museum of Bath wishes all its followers – whatever their religion or beliefs – the compliments of the festive season and hopes they enjoy peace, good health and much happiness in the new […]
‘The East of Bath issue.’ Hopes for reducing city’s traffic load.
The Leader of Bath and North Somerset Council wanted to show me something. Cllr Paul Crossley led me down through Green Park Station and along the river bank – and past Sainsbury’s – to point […]
Coin it in!
The Beau Street Hoard will be back on display at the Bath & North East Somerset Council-run Roman Baths just after Christmas – and there’s a chance for a lucky visitor to win a top […]
Canaletto, Contemporary Art and some great Brits! Holburne’s 2015 programme.
Four months to the day after she officially started her new job , the Director of Bath’s Holburne Museum faced the Virtual Museum’s camera to promise that – alongside the museum’s amazing permanent collection – there would […]
New look at the Nativity.
Bath Abbey has taken a contemporary approach to the traditional nativity scene this Christmas. An installation by artist and Bath Spa University graduate, Annette Smith, reinterprets the scene of the birth of Jesus using a […]
USA link to Soldier’s Prayer Book.
The year now drawing to a close marked one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. A conflict that I came face to face back in the summer. Not in a clipped […]
