Bath’s premier period house – No 1 Royal Crescent – is currently showing its visitors that the whole social media thing is nothing new. While we – in this age of Instagram – are […]
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Category: The Gallery
Check your art in – online – and hurry!
This year’s Bath Society of Artists annual exhibition will open at the Victoria Art Gallery on Saturday 18 May and run until Saturday 29 June 2019. This year – for the first time – submissions […]
At home with Horatio.
Follow in the footsteps of Britain’s heroic Lord Nelson this summer when the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution will be hosting some exciting guided trails over separate weekends. The Nelson Society and the World […]
Face up to a Big Issue.
It’s not the largest exhibition the Museum of Bath @ Work has ever hosted but it’s one that deals with a big issue. I make no excuse for making the pun because this is a […]
A column about Nelson.
It’s still a bit weird to realise that this year’s summer exhibition – which has just opened at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution – features an object that l have been fortunate enough […]
Shakespeare’s Women
What was it with Shakespeare? Viola loves Orsino dressed as Cesario, disguised as a boy shepherd Rosalind woos Orlando under guise of ‘curing him of his love for Rosalind and Bassanio parts with the ring […]
Psssst! It’s a Poussin.
Nicolas Poussin’s masterpiece The Triumph of Pan is touring the UK this year and its first stop will be Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery, where it will be on show from 11 April 2019. As part […]
Fingers crossed for the Herschel.
Congratulations are in order – and fingers are crossed – regarding Bath’s Herschel Museum of Astronomy being shortlisted in a national competition. The Museums and Heritage Awards celebrate best practice within museums, galleries and heritage […]
Thumbs up for Bath’s Fashion Museum.
A glove worn by Queen Elizabeth I and a pair of gloves worn in the Star Wars films are to go on show as part of a fascinating new display, Glove Stories, which will open […]
New ‘hangings’ at No 1
A private collector has generously loaned two large portraits to No. 1 Royal Crescent. They are of Peter and Amy Burrell, who married in 1723, by Allan Ramsay (1713–1784). With no known connection to Bath […]
