Another record year for the city’s world-famous Roman Baths with 1,202,491 visitors generating £23.3 million income and a surplus profit – after costs – to B&NES of £8.5 million pounds. That’s according to the annual […]
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A Bath ‘treasure’ still to be fully revealed.
Why is it – when l step down the basement stairs at the Assembly Rooms – l always get a sense of what Aladdin or Howard Carter must have felt when – in their darkness […]
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 […]
World stage for local museum
Singer, songwriter and activist, Peter Gabriel may have helped make Bath’s (Little) Solsbury Hill world-famous but more recently he’s been doing his bit for a lesser-known feature within our city. The Museum of Bath Architecture […]
Seeing double!
Not one – but two designers – have been chosen for The Fashion Museum Bath’s prestigious annual accolade, Dress of the Year. The two 2018 ensembles, as chosen by Alexander Fury, Fashion Features Director of AnOther […]
Let’s see Santa get this down the chimney!
This has to be one of the most expensive ‘stocking-fillers’ available in Bath for this Christmas – and you’re going to have to knit a very big – and strong – stocking to put it […]
Make it more of a People’s Museum?
It’s great that Bath has hot springs, Roman remains and Georgian architecture to bolster its prestige and provide a tourist income but – as our visitors flock into this World Heritage city to admire our […]
What a picture!
I am sitting in the jewel box that is Number 15 Great Pulteney Street – drinking a welcome cup of hotel-poured coffee – and about to meet a living photographic legend. Well, Clive Arrowsmith didn’t […]
Holburne returns to charging.
Bath’s Holburne Museum has decided to re-introduce admission charges to all its galleries to help balance the books. You’ll be paying from early next month but there are some concessions and free periods. The new […]
Women at war
The First World War was a conflict on a scale never experienced before and one in which a regular army would not be big enough. What did you do in the war daddy? – is […]
