Champagne tasting and Georgian dancing are on offer for one night only at Bath‘s Fashion Museum this month. To celebrate Museums at Night 2013, the popular attraction is offering special tours of its 50th anniversary […]
Category: The Gallery
Summer Diary
Bath Preservation Trust has just supplied the Virtual Museum with its Summer diary running through to August. This covers events at No 1 Royal Crescent, the Building of Bath Collection and the Herschel Museum. May […]
Three in One – The Bath Store with a difference.
A exhibition on one of Bath‘s most important retail businesses – Cater, Stoffell and Fortt – has just opened at the Museum of Bath at Work and will continue throughout the summer. By the end of […]
Smooth finish!
Good to see a new tarmac surface finally going down on the High Street after all the months of inconvenience while pavements have been enlarged and crossings moved to create a safer and larger presence […]
Set In Stone
Managed to get my hands on a clip from a Carlton Television series l presented nearly twenty years ago on the architectural history of Bath and called Set in Stone. It was produced and directed […]
Moore art.
A touring exhibition of Henry Moore’s inspirational work from the Arts Council Collection will make its only stop in the West of England at Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery, from 13 April to 23 June 2013. […]
Case 7, the British Museum and Bath’s Beau Street Hoard.
You cannot get a current ticket for the British Museum‘s blockbuster exhibition on Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum for love or money but that did not stop me threading my way through the […]
Orpheus – the full story!
Elsewhere within the Virtual Museum is a lengthy piece about Keynsham and its Roman past. I mentioned a wonderful mosaic ‘pavement’ discovered at Newton St Loe during the construction of Brunel’s Great Western Railway. After […]
Table top talent!
My partner’s party trick of creating a trussed oven-ready chicken out of a folded napkin must pale into insignificance compared with the rather unique exhibition currently entertaining and amazing visitors to the Holburne Museum in […]
Hidden doors, street art and a ‘king’ gets his sign back!
I often cycle in from Larkhall along the Kennet and Avon Canal and down into the city through Sydney Gardens. I had pedaled past two clumps of bushes – across the road from the entrance […]
