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[email protected] www.museums-sheffield.org.uk Friends Autumn Newsletter September 2019 Dear Friend, Welcome to your autumn newsletter, I hope you all had a wonderful summer and had the chance to enjoy and explore our summer programme. Leader House, Surrey We have had a great response to our exhibition John Ruskin: Art & Wonder at MillenniumStreet Gallery which marked 200 years of the influential artist, critic and scholar John Ruskin. The feedback we received was perhaps best summed up in this comment from one of the exhibition’s 48,000 visitors:Sheffield S1 2LH ‘What a beautifully curated and truly inspiring and informative exhibition – wonderful.’ Tel: 0114 278 2610 Although the Ruskin exhibition has ended, there’s still the opportunity to get involved and find out more about the many Ruskin bicentenary celebrations still to comeinfo@museums in 2019 at - ruskin200.com sheffield.org.uk We were delighted to offer Friends Circlewww.museums members a private- tour of the exhibition with Louise Pullen, Curatorsheffield.org.ukk of the Ruskin Collection here at Museums Sheffield. As part of the event the Friends Circle were also given the opportunity to handle some of the rare books and manuscripts from the collection. ‘To view, to touch and to turn the pages16 of someJanuary of the 2015 beautifully illustrated books in the Ruskin collection – it was very magical!’ Friend’s Circle member. As we move into autumn/winter our exhibitions programme shows no sign of slowing down.