MUSEUMTHE JOURNAL OF NATIONAL HERITAGE ● SUMMER 2008 ● ISSUE 83 ● £3news INSIDE

NEWS History at risk listed 1 Lottery cash for collections 2 ’s eco-friendly museum 3 Motion to head MLA 3 General Wolfe saved 3 NH PROFILE Nick Dodd 4 Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, 200 years on LOCAL FOCUS Hitchin’s elementary battle 5 Throughout 2009 Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire, built on the site where Abraham Darby first smelted iron with coke in 1709, will be celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of the Industrial ART FUND PRIZE Revolution. Woking’s wonder 6-7 The first of a series of events marking Darby’s discovery at Coalbrookdale was a public archaeology programme coinciding with National Archaeology Week in July. The major archaeological NH investigation was intended to provide more detailed information about the workings of Darby’s original furnace, now known as the “Old Furnace” (above). On certain days the general public were DEBATE 7 invited to participate in the excavation - in the less sensitive areas of the site, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The results of the excavation will go on show in 2009. MUSEUM IN THE NEWS Our black history 8 English Heritage to

MUSEUM OF THE YEAR REVISITED list history at risk The River and Rowing Museum New register latest safeguard for are for buildings. It is to include grade II listed build- (1999) 9 heritage in peril ings, scheduled monuments, archaeology, historic landscapes, parks and gardens, places of worship, English Heritage have launched a new Heritage At conservation areas, battlefields and even designated Risk Register in a bid to safeguard all aspects of the maritime wrecks, deemed to be at risk of loss national patrimony in the same way that buildings through decay or damage. are. In the first phase of the project experts have Modelled on the Buildings At Risk register first added to their knowledge of the country’s 30,687 NATIONAL compiled in 1998, the new list will make Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings – which are HERITAGE GUIDE the only European country to have a comprehensive eligible for the Buildings At Risk register published knowledge of the state of its protected heritage. each of the last ten years – an assessment of all A selective list of current and “The Heritage At Risk project is at the heart of 19,711 of the country’s scheduled monuments, all forthcoming museum what English Heritage does, identifying what is 1,595 of its registered historic parks, gardens and and gallery exhibitions 10 - 15 important and in danger and devising ways to save landscapes, all 43 of its registered battlefields and all it” said Simon Thurley, chief executive of English 45 of the protected wrecks off our coasts. EVENTS Heritage. This very ambitious systematic survey of “The long barrow overgrown with brambles Forthcoming heritage at risk will enable us to prioritise the most that you saw on your last country walk, the Civil War visits to the urgent cases and save more of them, more quickly. battlefield under threat of development, the broken Museum of Seeing the whole picture, we will be able to identify war memorial in the village square or the boarded-up Garden solutions which can be applied across the whole old mill buildings that no-one seems to care about, History, and country.” these are all part of the rich backdrop of our lives in the AGM at The new register is English Heritage’s bid to England” Thurley said. “But our heritage is a finite the 16 create the kind of safeguards for our ruined resource, and if we don’t act these things won’t be and buried history and for our landscapes that there here for our grandchildren.” MUSEUM NEWS

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER Lottery cash for collections Introducing the The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded in providing curators with a sum of money for £3m for 22 museum and galleries in a bid to stim- strategic collections development rather than hav- NH blog ulate collecting and curatorial skills. ing to wait for a specific painting or object to Grants have gone to a range of institutions, become available on the art market. o win the biggest arts prize in the including museums in Norwich, Buxton, The programme was over-subscribed – 95 country (the £100,000 Art Fund Northern Ireland, Barking and Exeter. Collecting applications worth a total of £13.3m were received T Museums and Galleries Prize) projects which will be funded under the scheme, against the budget of £3m. Grants awarded range within its first year of opening is a called Collecting Cultures, include a range of from £50,000 to £200,000. 18th-century bagpipes, Inuit art and artefacts, Organisations were also asked to show how remarkable achievement for the small memorabilia from Belfast’s Titanic, exquisite Tain they planned to develop curatorial skills, increase (but, in the judges’ view, perfectly silver, and trainers, boots and fashion footwear public involvement and enjoyment of their collec- formed) Lightbox Museum in Woking, from the shoe capital of Northampton. tions. not least because it was up against the Announcing the grants HLF outgoing chair Dame Liz said that although it was a one-off Wellcome Collection in , the Dame Liz Forgan said that she had backed the programme, she hoped it would act as a catalyst for British Empire and Commonwealth scheme because she felt “the culture of collecting other funders. Museum in Bristol and the Shetland was under threat because lack of money meant The Lottery is an important part of a bigger Museum in Lerwick. But the judges that many curators were not given the opportunity support system for museums and galleries and found the Lightbox irresistible, in the to develop collection expertise”. must work alongside a culture of private giving words of their chairman, Sue MacGregor, She added that Collecting Cultures was unique and strong government support,” she said. because of its novelty, its international and local collections, the professionalism and air of enthusiasm of its staff, and of The 22 successful Collecting Cultures projects the fine design of its building (by Marks Barfield). The museum is featured on East of England Art Gallery - The Potters Art in the 20th page six of this issue. • Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge - Century (£60,000) Not everyone will share the judges’ Arctic Visions: Inuit Art and Material Culture • Macclesfield Silk Museums/Macclesfield verdict. We are not privy to the judges’ (HLF grant: £200,000) Museums Trust - Changes and Exploration deliberations but it would be surprising if • Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery - in Silk (£74,500) Collecting Cultures: Sharing Norfolk’s Past there had not been some voices raised (£199,500) Scotland in favour of one or other of the other • Groam House Museum - Developing the three, particularly perhaps for the East Midlands George Bain Collection, Rosemarkie Wellcome, which is financially flush and • Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, Derby (£99,000) had announced in advance that if it won Museums & Art Gallery and Belper North • Tain and District Museum – Tain Silver – it wished the prize money to be shared Mill - Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the the Collection (£98,400) between the other three. Readers who Pace in the Eighteenth Century • Edinburgh University Collection of Musical turn to our website (£200,000) Instruments – Enriching our Musical • Northampton Museums and Art Gallery and Heritage (£80,000) (www.nationalheritage.org.uk) will see Kettering Manor House Museum - that we have recently introduced a blog Collecting Cultures - Trainers, Sneakers, South East which includes a number of lively Pumps and Daps (£130,000) • Crafts Study Centre, Farnham – Developing comments from our members and a National Collection of Modern Crafts others on what’s going on in the London (£185,000) museum and gallery world, including • V&A - Staying Power – The story of Black • Museum of English Rural Life, Reading – one unflattering appraisal of the Woking British Identity 1950 – 1990s (£157,500) Collecting Rural Cultures (£95,000) • – The Industries of museum. The writer wonders what the Barking and (£60,000) South West judges were thinking of in selecting it as • Museum of Garden History - To Develop • Dorset County Museums Advisory Service: the winner. Others question our our Art and Design Collection (£99,400) Dorset County Museum, Portland Museum, acceptance of the Museum Association’s Sidmouth Museum, Lyme Regis Museum, new criteria for the disposal of museum North East Wareham Museum, Swanage Museum, objects (see my letter in the last issue of • Tyne and Wear Museums – Collecting Langton Matravers Museum, Allhallows Museum News), urge that the old Design (£145,000) Museum, Fairlynch Museum, Royal Albert Museum and Galleries Commission be Memorial Museum Exeter – Jurassic Life Northern Ireland Initiative (£200,000) reinstated, and praise our publication but • Fermanagh County Museum, Derry Heritage are critical of the Museums Journal. and Museum Service, Inniskillings Museum Wales I urge you to read the blog, and to – Connection and Division (£100,000) • Chepstow Museum Monmouth Museum – put forward your own views and • National Museums Northern Ireland (Ulster The Wye Tour (£200,000) suggestions on museum and gallery Folk and Transport Museum) - Titanic Built subjects. You’ll find much to comment in Belfast (£174,500) West Midlands • The Herbert, Coventry and Wolverhampton on in this issue of Museum News – or North West Art Gallery – Peace and Reconciliation you can write to us at the National • The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Project (£199,500) Heritage Administration Centre, Rye Manchester - Cultural Reflections: Strategic Road, Hawkhurst, Kent TN18 5DW. We Acquisition for the Whitworth Art Gallery Yorkshire and Humber need to hear from you. Wallpaper Collection (£ £196,500) • National Coal Mining Museum for England – James Bishop • Gallery Oldham, The Harris Museum and Seeing the Whole Picture (£60,000)

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£6m eco-friendly Stockwood development opens Luton discovers a new museum Luton has what amounts to a new £6m museum, which was being opened on July 12. After a year of radical refurbishment, the Museum is re-emerging as the environmentally friendly Stockwood Discovery Centre, created by the Manchester based archi- tects Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams. Now, visitors are greeted with a new entrance and orientation areas that lead through a series of new buildings and landscaped spaces into the extended Mossman Carriage Museum, a much loved element of the original museum. Run by Museums Luton on behalf of the Luton Cultural Services Trust, the new Stockwood Discovery Centre has been made possible thanks to a £3.7 million cash injection from the Heritage Lottery Fund along with £1.2 million Objective 2 European Funding and con- tributions from , the DCMS/Wolfson Foundation Museums and history of the region from prehistoric times to the are an integral part of the landscape. Once part of Galleries Improvement Fund, Waste Recycling evolution of Stockwood House and the Farley the original Stockwood House walled areas, the Environmental Ltd (WREN), Garfield Weston estate. period gardens reflect the changing styles of gar- Foundation, Renaissance and other trusts and The display collections include geology, dening in this country. New areas include a con- groups. Members of the public have also been archaeology, social history and rural crafts. templative sensory garden, a colourful world gar- supportive with donations and by helping to Highlights include the Wenlok Jug, a rare den and a medicinal garden highlighting the use- shape the displays and gardens through special medieval masterpiece with strong links to Luton’s fulness of plants. projects, giving their time and expertise to sup- history and development, the town’s last tram and Maggie Appleton, director of museums, said: port the plans. the famous Mossman collection of carriages, the “Our new Discovery Centre will offer something Using the themes of community identity and largest of its kind on display in the UK. for everyone: a stroll through the gardens, a environmental sustainability, the centre is The new centre is one of the few places in the museums visit or fun in the play area. With its designed with environmentally green and sus- country where the work of acclaimed artist Ian exciting new features, it is a real jewel in Luton’s tainable principles in mind. It tells the stories of Hamilton Finlay can be seen on permanent dis- crown and a visitor attraction of regional impor- real people behind the collections, exploring the play in a classical garden in which the sculptures tance.”

The has saved Poet laureate chairs MLA this JSC Schaak Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, is the new chair- portrait of the victor of the Battle of Quebec, man of the Museums, Libraries and Archives General James Wolfe, Council (MLA), taking up his new position on July after a campaign to 3 for a period of four years. He has succeeded Mark stop it from being sold Wood who has chaired the organisation for six years. overseas. “This is a Motion, who intends to stand down as Poet painting that belongs Laureate in 2009 after ten years, takes over an organ- in Britain, for whom isation in transition, having recently split operations Wolfe’s victory meant between two new offices in South Kensington and so much” said the Birmingham. Its nine regional agencies are to be historian Professor scrapped by next April, to be replaced by three Richard Holmes. “directors of engagement” covering three “super Contributions from the regions” and working to a single integrated staff National Heritage under chief executive Roy Clare. Memorial Fund, the Art “It is an exciting time to be entering the heart of Fund, the Garfield the cultural arena” Motion said “with the enormous Weston Foundation boost in popularity that museums and galleries have and the Society of seen over the past few years, and the Olympics just Friends of the National around the corner. I am confident the MLA can Army Museum helped build on this and achieve even greater things in the meet the £300,000 future.” target. Roy Clare said: “Andrew arrives at a very appro- priate and exciting time as a newly reshaped MLA equips itself to focus on the integration, improve- ment, and innovation of museums, libraries and archives.”

MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 3 MUSEUM PROFILE NICK DODD

ices as they battled to save housing or social serv- ices from the axe. “It was tough,” says Dodd. “When the munic- Family planning ipal museums were established they were the apple of the eye of local politicians but by now they were shrivelling. We wanted to do stuff but Weston Park Museum in Sheffield has won a sheaf there wasn’t any money.” of awards since it reopened last year, and the Somehow the Herbert Museum managed to gather the £500,000 needed to put on a major latest is the Guardian’s Family Friendly Museum exhibition – Godiva City –the story of Coventry. Much of the funding came from the European Prize for 2008. Patrick Kelly spoke to the chief Union or from charitable trusts like the Wolfson, executive of Museums Sheffield, Nick Dodd. and it was Dodd’s real introduction to the world of multi-agency funding. It was an immense under- taking – and the museum set out to reach the heffield city centre is now transformed by a take on jobs like commissioning designers, liais- highest standards it could, Innovative design, con- clutch of glitzy buildings and there’s none ing with contractors and so on. “It was a good job, sultation with local communities , a strong Sglitzier than the Millennium Galleries. The in many ways, I have never had one quite like it emphasis on accessibility for disabled people – Galleries are at the centre of the steel city’s recent since.” much of what is now standard practice in muse- makeover as a cultural destination and its no sur- But he was now hooked on the museum busi- um exhibition was invested in this exhibition. prise that the lynchpin of the latest exhibition is ness and successfully applied for a place on Dodd moved on to head Wolverhampton’s arts fashion icon Vivienne Westwood. So it is some- Leicester University’s museum studies certificate, and museums service, with an MA in cultural thing of a surprise to meet Sheffield’s museum one of only two such courses in the country at that policy under his belt. Although Wolverhampton supremo in a modest, even anonymous office in a time. It was a hothouse for a new generation of had an affection for its galleries and the set-up nondescript block behind the gallery. thrusting young curators – with York’s Janet was efficiently run, “it was a bit dull” says Dodd, But Nick Dodd is rather proud of the fact that Barnes and Peter Jenkinson among that year’s with a bit of everything spread across various his HQ is Sheffield city centre’s oldest building. graduates. “A new kind of professionalism was sites. Not enough was being made of its first He’s prouder still of the trust’s latest success - being created” says Dodd, “ a new thoughtfulness class contemporary art collection, including a 60s winning the Guardian’s family friendly museum and we were on the cusp of it. Not only were we Pop art anthology second only to the ’s. He prize for Weston Park Museum – which reopened were now well trained and determined to bring decided to concentrate activities on different in October 2007 after a £19 million makeover. change to museums, we all had a sense of mis- buildings, moving the town’s history exhibition to For a man who sits in the top counsels of both sion”. Bantock House and promoting the visual arts in the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and His opportunity to start making changes came the main gallery. the Heritage Lottery Fund, it may seem like a quickly with a post at the new Kent Museum of He painted walls, commissioned artists to cliché to suggest that Dodd has museums cours- Rural Life, near Maidstone where he was the third design furniture, improved lighting. “I did every- ing through his veins. But he does – a great uncle person on the payroll. The new museum was thing to make the spaces more beautiful – so that ran the local museum in Bangor, Wales and determined to do things in a different way, to people would come in off the street simply another relative was keeper of mineralogy at the engage with its customers, setting up a hop farm, because they were nice places to be.” The audi- Natural History Museum. Even so, as a history organising beer festivals. Dodd learned to muck ences increased tenfold to 200,000 a year and graduate at Sussex University, he had no plans for in in every aspect of the rural museums work, and won Wolverhampton a clutch of awards. a career in the business. “I didn’t even know that became very handy with a shovel. Dodd was then headhunted to run Sheffield’s there was such a thing as a paid job in museums” After four years he moved to Coventry as sen- new Museums Trust in 2002 which had just he admits, until a university careers officer put ior keeper of social history to get more experience opened the Millennium Galleries and was him straight. of working in a larger museum service in a city embarking on ambitious plans to transform its He bashed out 150 letters and got three posi- with its own rich urban and industrial history. It Weston Park gallery and museum. By now lottery tive replies – one from the National Postal was not an auspicious time to be in local authori- money was flowing, but the trust model “still had Museum, in London. As an assistant to the exhi- ty museums service. The Thatcher approach to a lot to prove”, says Dodd. “You can’t justify tak- bition team, the young Dodd was thrown in at the public spending meant that local councils were ing the service out of local authority control if it deep end, mainly because there was no-one else to abandoning their pride in their local cultural serv- then doesn’t do the job better”. Doing it better meant pioneering partnerships with the likes of the V&A, bringing international Imagining Britain class exhibitions to Sheffield and creating an air Tyne and Wear Museums, , of excitement around the trust’s work. Sheffield Museums Sheffield and Norwich Castle has responded enthusiastically, with visitors to Museum and Art Gallery have been awarded Weston Park shooting up from 75,000 to 275,000 £1.15m by the Heritage Lottery Fund for the in 2007. Imagine a Nation project. The project, which Now he has his sights trained on the third will run for 4 years, will use collections to major site in the Trust’s care, the Graves Art explore a vision of Britain, and what it means Gallery. He has completed a cosmetic makeover to be British in the 21st century, and will of the gallery, which shares a building with the culminate in events and exhibitions during city library but admits that a complete revamp summer 2012. may have to await a 2013 Lottery bid. The project aims to reach over one million His plans are ambitious and envisage a people across the country, from a wide range takeover of the whole building – which would of backgrounds, and allow them access to constitute a cultural quarter all of its own. But a some major British artworks. One of the survey by consultants working on the Trust highlights of the project will be a series of rebrand – hence the new name of Museums major exhibitions featuring masterpieces of British art drawn from collections around the Sheffield – found that what most people felt country. about the trust was that they were “up for it”. They are a major player, and now they know it. 4 MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 The 1905 classroom and the girls' and infants' school of 1857 (right).

LOCAL FOCUS changed little since then. In 1925 the trustees of the British Schools gave the site to Hertfordshire County Council, and it became known as Queen Street Infants' School, later Queen Street Junior School. In An elementary battle 1969 the last school on the site closed, but the buildings continued to be used as Hitchin College's Community Annex. he project of the British Schools Museum When he died, Wilsher left the schools to the When the site was offered for sale by at Hitchin in Hertfordshire is a mission of British Schools Trust he had created for the pur- Hertfordshire in 1990, the British Schools Trust Ta small army of dedicated volunteers, pose. was reformed to save the buildings from redevel- determined to tell the story of these buildings, a The school became very popular, particular- opment and to create the British Schools story fundamental in the history of elementary ly for boys, and in 1837, a year before Museum; they are gradually being restored by a education in this country. Because it relies so Lancaster’s death, the Lancasterian schoolroom team led by retired aerospace engineer Terry totally on volunteers, it can open on just three was built to accommodate the growing numbers Ransome and the professional curator, Fiona days of the week, and then only in the spring and of boys, which had reached 300 with 30 moni- Dodwell. Earlier this year the bicentenary of summer months, tors. Joseph Lancaster’s visit was marked by the But the museum is unique. Based in the orig- In 1851 the poet and scholar Matthew Arnold, reopening of parts of the museum after a new inal Victorian and Edwardian Grade II listed son of the famous headmaster of Rugby School, ceiling and heating had been installed, thanks to buildings, it is the only museum devoted to the Thomas Arnold, and an inspector of education, a grant from the British and Foreign School controversial educational theories of Joseph visited the school. On his recommendation, a Society and additional funding from the Friends Lancaster - which are now being re-examined by galleried classroom was built in 1853 providing of the British Schools Museum. However, the schools, 170 years after his death. light and more airy accommodation for 110 museum still needs £3m to complete the restora- In 1808 William Wilshere, a respected local boys, who were taught sitting on rows of bench- tion, to include the master’s house. solicitor, had attended a lecture in Hitchin by es. Recently the publication of a book about the Lancaster, often described as the “father of ele- In 1845 the old malthouse had been caught in museum, Educating Our Own: The Masters of mentary education”, in which he promoted his a fire that swept along the Queen Street, but the the Boys British School, Hitchin, 1810 to 1929, radical views. repairs were inadequate and in 1856/57 it was compiled by a group of volunteers under the edi- Like Lancaster, Wilshere was concerned at pulled down and replaced by new infants' and torship of Terry Ransome, was made possible by the number of young boys receiving no educa- girls' school. Next door two houses were built, a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. In those tion and too often getting themselves into trou- one each for the headmaster and headmistress. years there were just seven masters. One disap- ble, and he concurred with the idea of educating The last addition was made in 1905 when the peared mysteriously and another resigned to the working poor at a time when it was thought Edwardian classrooms were added alongside the become a general practice doctor, but William that trying to school the poor was not only an Lancasterian schoolroom, and the site has John Fitch served for 45 year, and retired in 1899 unnecessary expense, it was detrimental in giv- at the age of 73. ing them ideas above their station. “We hope to be able to celebrate the bicente- Accepting both the radical argument and the nary of the opening appropriately in 2010” said method advocated by Lancaster, Wilshere decid- Terry Ransome, “but we have no regular funding ed that the children of the town should have the and it is a struggle. We suffer because we are not opportunity, and founded his “Lancasterian” in a regional development area, so that strand is school in an old malthouse. closed to us, but we have a very strong voluntary Lancaster’s method was that one master was ethos.” in charge of the whole school, and he taught a Although it has limited general opening, on cohort of the older and more able “monitors” Tuesdays, Saturday mornings and Sunday after- who then passed what they had learned on to rhe noons in the summer months, the museum is others. From the beginning the school was for always available for school parties for which ses- both boys and girls, but they were taught sepa- sions are oversubscribed. rately. The Lancaster method was later adopted British Schools Museum is at 41/42 Queen by the Roman Catholic Church in England and The Lancasterian schoolroom, with its new Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 9TS, tele- Wales, and then by the national schools system. ceiling. phone 01462 420144 / 452697.

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Woking’s wonder

he assumption had been that, like most dormitory suburbs born in the railway age, Woking had no history - the assumption outside Woking, any- way. Locals knew better, and in 1993, T77 of them got together to prove it. There was the Brookwood Cemetery, created by the London Necropolis Company in the 1850s as the largest in Europe, which had its own railway served by Waterloo Station and its own platform there. There was Brookwood Hospital, the mental hospital closed to become luxury flats whose in- house museum, containing everything from 19th century lockable shoes for women internees to the apparatus for performing lobotomies in the 1950s, was given to the people of Woking with no sug- gestion as to where they might be seen. And there was the first mosque in Britain, cre- ated by a linguistics professor in the 1880s. “It was the only town in Surrey without a museum, and we couldn’t see why” said Marilynn Scott, a local resident, trustee of that early group and now director of the Lightbox. The Lightbox is the town’s museum and gallery which resulted from the local campaign. It opened last September and now has won not only the £100,000 Art Fund Museums and Galleries Prize – beating the Shetland Museum, the Wellcome Collection and the Commonwealth and Empire Museum in Bristol – but an RIBA offers of money other, sometimes more valuable award for its architects Marks Barfield. things, came.” It was a 15 year odyssey, however, to get the turer on Greenwich University’s heritage and One was the Ingram Collection, 400 pieces of museum open, a journey which started when Gill museums course, and a one-time fundraiser. “The British modern art by the likes of Eduardo Washington, a local silversmith, teacher and collection was already there, in people’s attics, Paolozzi, Elisabeth Frink and Henry Moore, put chairman of Woking’s arts and crafts society, garages and under their beds, but with nowhere to together by the media millionaire Chris Ingram, found common cause with the local history group show it” she said. a Woking boy and owner of Woking Town – she wanted somewhere other than the occasion- She restarted the stalled campaign and per- Football Club. His collection had been in store, ally available church hall to show the work of suaded the by now enthusiastic local authority to but is now on long-term loan to the museum. local craftspeople and artists, they wanted a muse- give £500,000 to develop a business plan; and she At first the Heritage Lottery Fund had been um. They sought a disused building which for, say, got advice on finding an architect from Peter unenthusiastic about funding a new museum, but £1m could be converted. Wilson, the project director who had seen the cre- when Woking Borough Council pledged £3m The campaign coincided with a property boom ation of the Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate towards the £7m building costs for the “land- time, however, with companies relocating 25 Modern. “His advice is to start thinking big and mark” it sought, the fund promised £1.6m, with miles out of London so that available buildings continue that way” she recalled “so we had an the rest coming from trusts like Garfield were snapped up to either convert or be demol- international competition”. Western, Esmée Fairbairn and Wellcome, but ished or new-build. The winners were Marks Barfield whose ambi- also from local individuals and companies. The museum would need to be purpose-built, tious first proposal was soon changed to a simpler Marilyn Scott had hoped that the Lightbox and Woking Borough Council gave the new trust steel frame, clad by wood and steel in artist- would draw 50,000 visitors in its first year: by a small parcel of land, located paradoxically designed patterns – benches, the courtyard gates May it had already had 70,000, and will have between the 400,000-cars-a-day A320 dual car- even some of the courtyard flowers have been recorded well over 100,000 by its first birthday riageway and the sylvan Basingstoke Canal. commissioned from local makers. in September. But none of the trust members had museum “The secret of good fundraising” Ms Scott said Now, with the museum open and acclaimed, experience, except for Marilyn Scott, then a lec- “is research, and if the research didn’t throw up Marilyn Scott’s job is predominantly fundraising 6 MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 The Road to Damascus?

fter a decade or more of being told that the arts, museums and heritage A had to be accountable for the public subsidies that they consumed, we suddenly seem to be faced with a U-turn of breathtaking extent and suddenness. Accountability (and the widely despised and misunderstood measurement that seems to go with it) is apparently out and excellence is in. Brian McMaster’s report Supporting Excellence in the Arts http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/pu blications/3577.aspx) recommended a new system of assessment for cultural institutions focused on judgement rather than measurement in order to encourage and reward excellence, NATIONAL innovation and risk-taking. Ministers have endorsed the McMaster report and the civil servants at the Department for Culture, Media HERITAGE and Sport (DCMS) are busily looking at ways to implement the new mantra. In the short term this will presumably have DEBATE most impact on those cultural organisations with Stuart Davies directly funded by the DCMS, including the national museums. But these initiatives have a The move from measurement to judgement, habit of percolating down through other from control to trust, which Sir Brian suggests, government agencies and projects, delivering is not entirely new thinking. Baron Evans of an influence way beyond Westminster. Temple Guiting (then the chairman of In July 2007 James Purnell, the then secretary Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives of state, asked Sir Brian McMaster, former and Libraries, now a government spokesperson director of the Edinburgh International Festival, in the House of Lords) pleaded that trust was to undertake a review to report on: more important than accountability in his New • How the system of public sector support for Statesman Lecture in 1991. the arts can encourage Since then the move in the cultural and excellence, risk-taking and innovation heritage sectors has been decidedly in the • How artistic excellence can encourage direction of command and control, not least of wider and deeper engagement with the all in the organisation that Lord Evans left in arts by audiences 2002. The obvious problem about linking trust • How to establish a light touch and non- and judgement, as McMaster is doing, is bureaucratic method to judge the quality deciding whose judgement is legitimate and of the arts in the future how do you judge things as subjective as again. The Art Fund prize money will pay for a The review involved artists, directors, curators, excellence, quality and creativity. new outside gallery to help meet the growing producers and administrators from across the The arts and heritage worlds have tended to demand for temporary exhibition space, but the country, and from across a wide variety of art diverge on this one. The latter’s approach has need to meet a £1m turnover is never satisfied. forms. Sir Brian was supported by Nicola been to establish standards which have been She negotiated a service deal with Woking Thorold and staff from DCMS and Arts widely consulted upon and enjoy a broad Council for and index-linked annual grant of Council England, and included the obligatory consensus of support. Unfortunately that can £300,000 fore 15 years, “an absolutely vital “public consultation” in November 2007. mean a tendency to operate at the lowest cushion” she says “but the reality of modern We are told – by government spokespersons denominator. On the other hand it quite suits museums is that fundraising is perpetual”. – that this review will mark a real shift in how the arts world to leave everything to a vague The Lightbox’s permanent local history exhi- we view and talk about the arts in this country. peer review of the cognoscenti. It means bition is the story of a quiet, Victorian railway “The time has come to reclaim the word anything can be art and anyone can claim to be town and how it has grown up: its shopping – the ‘excellence’ from its historic, elitist undertones creative. owner of the now closed local department store, and to recognise that the very best art and This conversion to excellence is to be Robinson, has given his archive - and its indus- culture is for everyone; that it has the power to welcomed if it means that not everything is tries, from Kenwood kitchen mixers to McLaren change people’s lives, regardless of class, judged by the numbers. But then, the numbers racing cars. There are local VC winners, the education or ethnicity.” have advantages too, not least in providing a football club, the Woking-born celebrities from McMaster also put forward the view that it stable set of easily understood and easily the cricketing Bedser twins to rock stars Rick is time to trust our artists and our organisations reported criteria. Ironically, there has been of Parfitt and Paul Weller. to do what they do best – to create the most late a growing confidence in the way that “But a lot of our collection is oral” said Mrs excellent work they can - and to strive for what DCMS has been getting to grips with some Washington. “Right from the start volunteers is new and exciting, rather than what is safe aspects of measurement. Perhaps the answer is were recording memories of Woking life, from and comfortable. Apparently, they are currently to find a convincing way of merging the two commuting to visiting the mosque. It’s a work- being constrained by “outdated structures and approaches and avoid swinging too ing museum at the centre of our society.” burdensome targets.” energetically between the two.

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Britain is to get its first black history museum after a 27 year campaign, thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund and the London Borough of Lambeth. Our black history takes its place

he Black Cultural Archives (BCA) has won a £4m lottery grant to create the Tmuseum in Raleigh Hall, a former Liberal club in Windrush Square, Brixton, which it has been given by the borough. “We want to tell our stories from our own per- spectives” Paul Reid, the archives’ director, said. “We’ve worked so hard to get here and there’s still a lot to do to reach our remaining fundraising target, but I’m confident that we will be able to build a centre that we can all be proud of.” The collection has been accumulating since the archives were created in 1981, and two years ago the BCA appointed a new board and rebuilt the staff under Reid, a former Brixton town cen- tre manager. Two years ago Lambeth Council gave the project Raleigh Hall, a once grand building which is now on the English Heritage Buildings black children were not doing well at school, and At Risk Register with its condition rated as part of the reason, Garrison believed, was that “poor”. Its conversion will cost £6.5m, but with they knew nothing about the black contribution to the HLF grant and £1.3m from the London Britain, going back long before slavery was an Development Agency £1.5m was left to be raised, issue. Paul Reid said. The museum, which has still to be The catalyst to the creation of the archives had named, will open in 2011. been an iconic American black activist known as The story of black people in this country goes Queen Mother Audley Moore – “The Warrior Sislin Fay Allan, who in 1968 became back at least to Roman times, and elements of it Woman” – who founded the African American Britain's first black woman police officer are dotted around museums and archives so that Cultural Foundation and before her death in 1997 (top) and from the Edwardian Reid’s team are trawling the country’s collections at the age of 99 made several visits to Britain to Barbour-James collection (above). as well as the family histories of black house- advise black community leaders here on how to holds. use black heritage to point to an integrated future. century Paddington-based doctor. The archives began through concern about In association with Middlesex University, “The BCA’s vision for a major black history black children’s performance at school, which Garrison helped found the Archives and Museum and cultural centre has been a long time in the key thinkers on academic issues such as the late of Black Heritage as a charitable trust, the parent making but worth the wait” said Carole Souter, Len Garrison began to associate with their lack of of the Black Cultural Archives. chief executive of the Heritage Lottery Fund, place in British society. It became an issue that As well as expanding the BCA’s outreach work “and Raleigh Hall will make the perfect setting – with schools and the communities, the new muse- a listed building with huge potential at the heart um will have a permanent display, a temporary of Brixton – in which to properly celebrate the exhibitions space, access to the archive and, Reid contribution of black Britons to our cultural, said, a presence outside in Windrush Square, social, political and economic life.” opposite Lambeth Town Hall. It will feed into the The architects Pringle Richard Sharratt, who borough’s wider plans to regenerate that part of designed the new Herbert Gallery in Coventry Brixton as a cultural quarter. and the Hull History Centre have been appointed The collection numbers some 8,000 items, to convert the building, and Ralph Applebaum, including letters, notebooks and memorabilia who has been responsible for permanent displays relating to the black Edwardian Barbour-James in the Foundling, Horniman, Natural History and family; an original bill of sale from 1843 with National Maritime Museums, will design the details of slaves to be sold on the auction block in exhibition. England; an original score by the 19th-century BCA chairman Stafford Neil, of the account- musician and composer, Samuel Coleridge ancy firm Ernst & Young, said he hoped the new Taylor; and photographs of a range of prominent museum would “capture black history in the UK figures such as Sislin Fay Allen (1968), the first for posterity, reflect the truth and motivate the Raleigh Hall in Brixton which will be home black woman to join the Metropolitan Police countless swaths of young blacks who every year to the Black Cultural Archives. Force, and John Alcindor, the prominent 19th- try to make sense of their place in this society”.

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View past the statues of Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Mathew Pinsent towards the museum.

River & Rowing Museum exterior, Jaap Oepkes © The River & Rowing Museum MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 9 ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE Two hundred of the Museum’s most Landscapes (until 21 Sept 2008) Aberystwyth University, significant objects on display include Loans from private collections &

E Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, the Jericho Skull, from 8000BC, museums, explore Sisley’s Ceredigion SY23 3DE the Anglo-Saxon Alfred Jewel, Guy fascination with views of the Tel: 01970 622882 Fawkes’s lantern, & a 17th-century Parisian suburbs of Louveciennes

D www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk native-American mantle that & Port-Marly. The exhibition Mon-Sat 9.30-8, Sun 12-5.30. belonged to the father of spans the years from the first I Admission free. Pocahontas. Impressionist exhibition in 1874 Paul Peter Piech 1920-1996 until Sisley’s death from throat (14 June-26 July 2008) cancer in 1899. U Linocuts, woodcuts, original prints & Bartholomew Lane, off blocks by a prolific artist whose Threadneedle St, London EC2R 8AH BRITISH EMPIRE & strong visual imagery was often used Tel: 020 7601 5545 COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM

G to publicise good causes, ranging www.bankofengland.co.uk/ Station Approach, Temple Meads, from Save Small Schools to Amnesty education/museum Bristol BS1 6QH

International. Mon-Fri 10-5. Closed 25 Aug. Tel: 0117 925 4980 Admission free. www.empiremuseum.co.uk E THE AMERICAN MUSEUM The Pound in your Pocket Daily 10-5. Admission £7.95, seniors IN BRITAIN (until 31 Oct 2008) & students £6.95, children £3.95; Claverton Manor, Bath BA2 7BD The exhibition examines inflation, its family (2+2 or 1+3) £19.95.

G Tel: 01225 460503 causes & its significance, & includes Breaking the Chains www.americanmuseum.org an interactive display showing how (until Oct 2008) Exhibition area: Tues-Sun, & bank- the Bank of England handles its The brutal story of Britain’s A holiday Mons, 12-5. Admission £7.50 occurrence. involvement in the transatlantic (includes museum), concessions slave trade, paying tribute to the

T £6.50, children £4; family (2+2) £20. BARBICAN ART GALLERY courage & resilience of those who Titanic: The Ship that Shook , Silk St, were enslaved & to the tireless I America (until 2 Nov 2008) London EC2Y 8DS campaigning of those who fought A collection of Titanic Tel: 0845 1207550 to end this barbaric practice.

R memorabilia–including testimonies www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery from survivors heard during the Daily 11-8 (Tues, Wed until 6; BRITISH LIBRARY United States Senate Enquiry of Thurs until 10). Admission £8, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB E 1912–illustrates the impact of this concessions £6. Tel: 0870 444 1500 tragedy on America. Among the The House of Viktor & Rolf www.bl.uk dead were many of its prominent (18 June-21 Sept 2008) Mon-Fri 9.30-6 (Tues until 8), Sat

H citizens: Colonel John Jacob Astor IV; These radical Dutch fashion 9.30-5, Sun & bank-holiday Mons

industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim; designers have had a major 11-5. Admission free. Isidore Strauss, founder of Macy’s influence on fashion over the last 15 The Ramayana: Love & Valour department store; & streetcar years. This specially-commissioned in India’s Great Epic L magnate George Widener. installation presents a selection of (until 14 Sept 2008) dramatic signature pieces. One of the world’s greatest & most

A ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM enduring stories, the Ramayana is Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM regularly performed in dance, drama Tel: 01865 278000 & ART GALLERY & shadow-puppet theatres around www.ashmolean.org Chamberlain Sq, the world. More than 120 colourful N Tues-Sat, & bank-holiday Mons 10-5; Birmingham B3 3DH paintings from the British Library’s Sun 12-5. Closed 7-9 Sept. Admission Tel: 0121 303 2834 17th-century manuscripts depict the free. www.bmag.org.uk traditional tale.

O Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Mon-Sat 10-5 (Fri from 10.30), Sun Coins & Casts (until 31 Dec 2008) 12.30-5. Admission to museum free. I Camera in Canton: Photographs Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG by Felice Beato (until 10 Aug 2008) Tel: 020 7323 8000

T From the Fitzwilliam Museum: Photographs of the Chinese city of www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round Canton (Guangzhou), taken when Daily 10-5.30 (Thurs, Fri until 8.30). Beato accompanied English forces Admission to museum free. A in 1860, at the conclusion of the Hadrian: Empire & Conflict Second Opium War. The images are (24 July-26 Oct 2008) shown alongside lithographs, The turbulent life & legacy of Rome’s N engravings & other photographic most enigmatic emperor who from material drawn from the collections 117 to 138 AD ruled much of A selective list at Birmingham Central Library. Europe, northern Africa & the Middle of current & East. The exhibition also examines BOWES MUSEUM Hadrian’s passion for architecture, as forthcoming Newgate, Barnard Castle, Co well as some of the sharp museum Durham DL12 8NP contradictions in the emperor’s Tel: 01833 690606 character. Admission £12, & gallery www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk concessions & children £10; exhibitions. Daily 11-5. Admission £7, accompanied children under 16 concessions £6, children free. free. Advance booking on 020 7323 Alfred Sisley: Impressionist 8181, or via website.

1O MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 THE COLLECTION people, animals, plants & geometric Danes Terrace, Lincoln LN2 1LP motifs. They are shown alongside Tel: 01522 550990 contemporary ornamental www.thecollection.lincoln.museum metalwork from other museums. Daily 10-4. Admission free. On the Shoulders of Giants: Luttrell Psalter: ‘Stitch the Photographic Portraits from the Fantastical’ (until 26 Sept 2008) University of Cambridge Friezes created from scenes in the (10 June-28 Sept 2008) 14th-century Psalter by members of As part of the University’s 800th- The Embroiderers’ Guild are shown anniversary celebrations, Cambridge alongside a film (screened at photographer Howard Guest weekends & during school holidays) presents portraits of academics, recreating medieval farming & daily porters, students, surgeons & others, life. Visitors can handle replica offering an insight into this world- objects made for the film, dress up renowned academic institution. in period costume or take part in quizzes & competitions. FLEETWOOD MARITIME MUSEUM COMPTON VERNEY Queen’s Terrace, Fleetwood, Kineton, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Lancs FY7 6BT Warwicks CV35 9HZ Tel: 01253 876621 Tel: 01926 645500 www.lancashire.gov.uk www.comptonverney.org.uk Mon-Sat 11-4, Sun 1-4. Admission Tues-Sun & bank-holiday Mons 11-5. £3, concessions £2, children free. Admission £7, seniors £5, students Worse Things Happen At Sea £4, children £2; family (2+4) £16. (21 June-31 Oct 2008) Portraits from Chequers: Kings, Morecambe Bay is an area of Queens & Revolutionaries outstanding beauty & magnificent (7 June-14 Dec 2008) views. The exhibition compares this A selection of works from the official aspect with its many dangers: the country residence of Britain’s prime bay is also a treacherous place with ministers features portraits of stormy unpredictable seas, shifting Charles I & Henrietta Maria; Mary I; & sands & tidal areas that have seen Elizabeth Claypole, daughter of Oliver shipwrecks, drownings, floods & Cromwell; as well as a locket ring pollution. belonging to Elizabeth I, containing portraits of Elizabeth & of her GAINSBOROUGH’S HOUSE mother, Anne Boleyn. From the National Portrait Gallery: Wyndham Lewis: Portraits 46 Gainsborough St, Sudbury, The Fabric of Myth Suffolk CO10 2EU (21 June-7 Sept 2008) Tel: 01787 372958 Organised thematically, this show Daily 10-6. the mountains of four continents, www.gainsborough.org explores the symbolic significance of Admission to pavilion free. from Nepal to the Caucasus, Alaska Mon-Sat 10-5 (bank-holiday Mons textile-related myths. Artists include Unpopular Culture to Uganda. 2-5). Admission £3.50, OAPs £2.80, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, (until 6 July 2008) students & children £1.50. William Holman Hunt, Henry Moore, This Hayward touring exhibition FERENS ART GALLERY John Bellany RA Elaine Reichek & Michelle Walker. features a selection of post-war Queen Victoria Sq, Kingston upon (14 June-20 Sept 2008) British painting, sculpture & Hull HU1 3RA John Bellany, one of the best-known COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART photographs from the Arts Council Tel: 01482 613902 & most influential Scottish artists Strand, London WC2R 0RN Collection that were made before www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums/ferens working today, shows a selection of Tel: 020 7848 2526 British art became fashionable. It Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 1.30-4.30. prints & drawings portraying his own www.courtauld.ac.uk includes works by Paul Nash, LS Admission free. family alongside works by Thomas Daily 10-6. Admission £5, Lowry, Henry Moore, Anthony Caro, Made for Us: Hull’s Collections of Gainsborough–admired by Bellany concessions £4; students & children Lynn Chadwick, Eduardo Paolozzi, Craft & Design (until 28 Sept 2008) for his power, vision & brushwork. under 18 free; all admission free Elisabeth Frink & Barbara Hepworth. Items of furniture, silver, costume, Mon 10-2 (except bank holidays). ceramics, tapestry & archaeology HANDEL HOUSE MUSEUM The Courtauld Cézannes ESTORICK COLLECTION OF demonstrate the human instinct to 25 Brook St, London W1K 4HB (26 June-5 Oct 2008) MODERN ITALIAN ART decorate, & to create special things. Tel: 020 7495 1685 For the first time the Courtauld’s 39A Canonbury Sq, London N1 2AN www.handelhouse.org entire collection of Paul Cézanne’s Tel: 020 7704 9522 FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM Tues-Sat 10-6 (Thurs until 8), Sun drawings, paintings & watercolours www.estorickcollection.com Trumpington St, Cambridge 12-6. Admission £5, concessions go on show together, alongside Wed-Sat 11-6 (Thurs until 8), Sun CB2 1RB £4.50, children £2. several hand-written letters in which 12-5. Admission £3.50, concessions Tel: 01223 332900 Handel & the Divas he reflects upon the fundamental £2.50, students & children under 16 www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk (until 16 Nov 2008) principles of his art. free. Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun & bank-holiday The exhibition explores the turbulent Frozen in Time: The Mountain Mons 12-5. Admission free. lives of the female singers who DE LA WARR PAVILION Photography of Vittorio Sella Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round brought Handel’s operas to life, Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea, (25 June-14 Sept 2008) (until 7 Sept 2008) looking at their careers, rivalries, E Sussex TN40 1DP Spectacular images by pioneering Gold shillings & silver pennies from successes, failures & sometimes Tel: 01424 229111 mountaineer & photographer Sella the De Witt collection of Anglo- scandalous behind-the-scenes www.dlwp.com (1859-1943) record his journeys to Saxon coins feature bold images of behaviour.

MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 11 NATIONAL HERITAGE GUIDE

HARLEY GALLERY Let’s Imagine: In the Jungle early-19th-century Romantics. This KETTLE’S YARD Welbeck, Worksop, Notts S80 3LW (14 June-14 Sept 2008) exhibition in brings together the Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ Tel: 01909 501700 A wide range of textures & objects, work of artists such as John Le Tel: 01223 352124 www.harleygallery.co.uk plus story-telling sessions & Capelain & Peter Le Lievre who were www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk Tues-Sun 10-5. Admission free. opportunities for hands-on discovery, inspired by local scenes. It explores Tues-Sun & bank-holiday Mons Horses & Landscapes: help under-8s to experience the Romanticism in other art forms, & 11.30-5. Admission free. George Stubbs at Welbeck diversity, exoticism & excitement of includes the work of one of the Michelle Charles (6 Sept-21 Dec 2008) life in the jungle. Channel Islands’ most famous exiles, (7 June-27 July 2008) Stubbs was commissioned by the French novelist Victor Hugo. This British artist, who worked in the 3rd Duke of Portland to paint United States for more than 20 portraits of the duke, his brother & Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ NEVILL KEATING MCILROY years, takes commonplace objects their favourite horses. The artist Tel: 020 7416 5320 5 Pickering Place, St James’s St, such as glasses of milk, medicine- subsequently drew on the rugged www.iwm.org.uk London SW1A 1EA bottles & bars of soap & repeats local scenery for many of his other, Daily 10-6. Admission to museum Tel: 020 7839 8386 motifs to present the same item in more exotic works. free. www.nevillkeating.com many different ways. From War to Windrush Mon-Fri 10-5.30. Admission free. Roger Hilton (2 Aug-22 Sept 2008) (13 June 2008-29 Mar 2009) John Hoyland (11 June-4 July 2008) More than 40 works from public & South Bank Centre, London SE1 8XX The exhibition uses historical Major works from the 1960s by the private collections across the UK Tel: 08703 800 400 material & personal memorabilia to Sheffield-born artist often viewed as show Hilton’s paintings to be as www.hayward.org.uk tell the stories of the West Indian the European Mark Rothko. This rumbustious as the life he led. It Daily 10-6 (Fri until 10). Admission people who came to Britain during selection of acrylics & works on features oil paintings & drawings £10, seniors £9, students & the First & Second World Wars. paper shows Hoyland’s bold use of from 1953 to 1965, when he left unemployed £6, children £4.50 Marking the 60th anniversary of the colour & his brand of abstract London to settle in Cornwall. They (under-12s free outside school arrival in Britain of the MV Empire expressionism that placed him at range from his austere black, red & hours); 11 July, for the Hayward’s Windrush in 1948, bringing post-war the heart of the 1960s Situation white paintings of 1954 to the lively 40th-anniversary celebration, West Indian settlers, it also examines scene. Dancing Nude of 1963. 40p for all. the establishment of Britain’s Psycho Buildings contemporary Caribbean KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY LADY LEVER ART GALLERY (until 25 Aug 2008) populations. & MUSEUM Lower Rd, Port Sunlight Village, Rachel Whiteread & nine other artists Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AG Wirral, Merseyside CH62 4EQ from around the world create a JERSEY MUSEUM Tel: 0141 276 9599 Tel: 0151 478 4136 series of architectural environments The Weighbridge, St Helier, Jersey, www.glasgowmuseums.com www.ladyleverartgallery.org.uk that include a village of 250 dolls- Channel Islands JE2 3NF Mon-Thurs & Sat 10-5; Fri & Sun 11- Daily 10-5. Admission free. houses, a room frozen in a moment Tel: 01534 633300 5. Admission free. Masterpiece Watercolours & of explosive disaster, & a huge www.jerseyheritagetrust.org Harry Benson–A photographer’s Drawings (28 June-9 Nov 2008) iridescent observatory. Daily 9.30-5. Admission £5.60, journey (until 14 Sept 2008) Fifty British drawings & concessions £4.80, children under Intimate photographs from the 60- watercolours–including works by THE HERBERT six free; family (2+2 or 1+3) £16.90. year career of Glaswegian Harry JMW Turner, David Cox, Peter de Jordan Well, Coventry, Romantics in the Channel Islands Benson, whose images of world Wint, Edward Burne-Jones & Dante W Midlands CV1 5QP (until 7 Dec 2008) leaders & events, icons of fashion, Gabriel Rossetti–illustrate the Tel: 024 7683 2386 The Channel Islands’ rugged music & film, & Scottish & American flowering of the British watercolour www.theherbert.org coastlines, extreme weather, athletes have featured in Life, Vanity school in the 18th century & its Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 12-5. atmospheric light & lush interiors Fair, Architectural Digest & The development through to the early Admission free. were perfect ingredients for the Sunday Times Magazine. 20th century.

MANCHESTER ART GALLERY Mosley St, Manchester M2 3JL Tel: 0161 235 8888 www.manchestergalleries.org Tues-Sun & bank-holiday Mons 10-5. Admission free. Green drops & Moonsquirters: The Utterly Imaginative World of Lauren Child (21 June-21 Sept 2008) This large interactive exhibition is based on characters & themes from the works of best-selling children’s- book author & illustrator Lauren Child. Young visitors will discover Charlie & Lola, Clarice Bean, That Pesky Rat & other favourites.

MILTON KEYNES GALLERY 900 Midsummer Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes MK9 3QA Tel: 01908 676900 From the Manchester Art Gallery: Green drops & Moonsquirters: The Utterly Imaginative World of www.mk-g.org Lauren Child Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-5. Admission free.

12 MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 Richard Woods: Flora & Fauna MUSEUM IN DOCKLANDS (28 June-31 Aug 2008) No 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Woods is celebrated for his all- Hertsmere Rd, London E14 4AL encompassing installations of wood- Tel: 0870 444 3857 block printing on floors & walls in a www.museumindocklands.org.uk variety of contexts. Sites have Daily 10-6. Admission £5 (admits for ranged from a British stately home one year), concessions £3, students to a Venetian courtyard, from private & children under 16 free. apartments to New York boutique Jack the Ripper & the East End stores; here it will include a new (until 9 Oct 2008) work to decorate the exterior of the The human stories behind the Gallery’s own building. sensationalised accounts of the 1888 serial killings are unfolded through mima original documents that include Centre Square, police files, newspaper accounts & Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ photographs, giving a greater Tel: 01642 726720 understanding of the victims, www.visitmima.org.uk witnesses & suspects & of the world Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun & bank-holiday they inhabited. Mons 12-4. Admission free. British Surrealism & Other MUSEUM OF CANNOCK Realities: The Sherwin Collection CHASE (until 17 Aug 2008) Valley Rd, Hednesford, Cannock, The ground-floor galleries are filled Staffs WS12 1TD with hundreds of works from a large Tel: 01543 877666 collection of British Surrealism built www.cannockchasedc.gov.uk up by a Leeds doctor over the last Daily 11-5. Admission free. 20 years. They include paintings by Changing Landscapes Ceri Richards, Humphrey Jennings & (9 Aug-12 Oct 2008) Emmy Bridgwater. A collaboration between the National Coal Mining Museum for MODERN ART OXFORD England & English Heritage, the 30 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP exhibition examines the changing Tel: 01865 722733 face of the coal industry. Case www.modernartoxford.org.uk studies from six English regions Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5. show the visual impact coal has Admission free. made on England’s landscape; Gary Hume: Door painting historic & modern photographs (15 June-31 Aug 2008) illustrate pits from their heyday Hume’s seemingly abstract through to their decline & closure. compositions in high-gloss, From the Imperial War Museum: From War to Windrush commercial house-paint date back to 1988 & were inspired by the Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 5DN institutional, swing doors of St Tel: 020 7747 2885 Mon-Sat 9.30-5 (Thurs until 8), Sun Wyndham Lewis: Portraits Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. www.nationalgallery.org.uk 12-5. Admission to gallery free. (3 July-19 Oct 2008) This survey presents 18 of his 50 Daily 10-6 (Wed until 9). Admission Impressionist Interiors Lewis’s portraits form a unique door paintings, from the muted to gallery free. (until 10 Aug 2008) record of the most important literary elegance of the early Magnolia Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist More than 40 paintings & works on modernist creators of the first half of Doors to the brilliantly-coloured Painters 1891-1910 paper drawn from the Gallery’s the 20th century. A centrepiece is aluminium panels of recent years. (18 June-7 Sept 2008) collection, shown alongside loans the controversial 1938 portrait of TS An exploration of the complex from European & US collections, Eliot; its rejection by the Royal MONTACUTE HOUSE relationship between Italian highlight a rarely-seen side of Academy caused Augustus John to Montacute, near Yeovil, Somerset Divisionism & the emerging Futurist Impressionism. Examples by Manet, resign from the Academy in protest. TA15 6XP movement. Dissatisfaction with Renoir, Degas, Monet, Signac & Admission £10, seniors £9, children Tel: 01935 823289 modern civilisation led artists to Cassat reveal the way artists used £8. Advance booking on 0870 013 www.nationaltrust.org.uk explore Symbolism, representing interior spaces as social metaphors. 0703, or via website. Wed-Mon 11-5. Admission £9.50, political concerns & making their art Admission 10? (includes children £4.50; family (2+3) £23.50; an instrument of social change. audioguide), concessions 6?, NORTHAMPTON MUSEUM members free. Sainsbury Wing. Admission £8, children 3?; family (2+3) 23?. & ART GALLERY On the Nature of Women: concessions £7 (Tues from 2.30, Advance booking on +353 1 663 Guildhall Rd, Northampton NN1 1DP Tudor & Jacobean Portraits of concessions £4), students & children 3513 or via www.ticketmaster.ie. Tel: 01604 838111 Women 1535-1620 (until Oct 2009) £4, under-12s free. Advance booking www.northampton.gov.uk More than 60 portraits of on 0870 906 3891, or via website. NATIONAL PORTRAIT Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5. Admission noblewomen, from the National GALLERY free. Portrait Gallery’s collection, show NATIONAL GALLERY St Martin’s Place, Colore! 17th- & 18th-Century historical figures including Catherine OF IRELAND London WC2H 0HE Art of Venice (until 10 Aug 2008) Parr & Elizabeth I. The subjects Merrion Sq West & Clare St, Tel: 020 7306 0055 Northampton’s collection of Venetian range from dutiful wives & mothers Dublin 2 www.npg.org.uk masterpieces includes works by to characters tainted by scandal & Tel: +353 1 661 5133 Daily 10-6 (Thurs, Fri until 9). Antonio Zanchi & Rosalba Carriera. intrigue. www.nationalgallery.ie Admission to gallery free. These are supplemented by other

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Life After Iraq: Photography by Angela Catlin (13 June-26 Oct 2008) The Scottish Refugee Council commissioned photojournalist Angela Catlin & writer Billy Briggs to travel to Syria to document the lives of some of the millions of Iraqis living there after fleeing their homeland. They look at the humanitarian crisis there, & also give an insight into the lives of Iraqi refugees who have sought refuge in Scotland.

SCIENCE MUSEUM Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2DD Tel: 0870 870 4868 www.sciencemuseum.org.uk Daily 10-6. Admission to museum free. Does Flying Cost the Earth? (until Nov 2008) From the British Gallery: The Ramayana: Love & Valour in India’s Great Epic The exhibition investigates the impact of aviation on climate change, with models of tomorrow’s Italian works on loan from major Works by Prunella Clough, Alan www.royalacademy.org.uk aeroplanes that will use lighter galleries, museums & private Davie, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Daily 10-6 (Fri until 10). materials & advanced engine collections. Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, John Admission charges vary. technologies to reduce the carbon Piper & William Scott illlustrate the Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry cost of air travel. NOTTINGHAM CASTLE development of abstract art in of Silence (28 June-7 Sept 2008) MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Britain. Among more than 60 paintings by SCOTTISH NATIONAL Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Hammershøi (1864-1916) are many PORTRAIT GALLERY Nottingham NG1 6EL REDBRIDGE MUSEUM of this celebrated Danish artist’s 1 Queen St, Edinburgh EH2 1JD Tel: 0115 915 3700 Central Library, Clements Rd, characteristically quiet, haunting Tel: 0131 624 6200 www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/whatso Ilford, Essex IG1 1EA interiors, as well as portraits, www.natgalscot.ac.uk n/museums/castle.asp Tel: 020 8708 2317 landscapes, & deserted urban scenes Daily 10-5 (Thurs until 7). Daily 10-5. Admission Mon-Fri free; www.redbridge.gov.uk in Copenhagen & London. Admission to gallery free. Sat, Sun £3, concessions & children Tues-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-4. Admission Admission £8, concessions £7, Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs £1.50 1; family (2+3) £7. free. students £6, children £4 & £3. 1913-2008 (14 June-21 Sept 2008) Laura Knight at the Theatre Celebrating Sylvia Pankhurst Advance booking on 0870 8488484, Portraits of Albert Einstein, Charlie (19 July-28 Sept 2008) (until 21 June 2008) or via website. Chaplin & Jean Harlow are among Works on loan from public & An exhibition about the remarkable classic images by legendary private collections across the UK life of the campaigner, suffragette & ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS photographers, from Edward by an artist who achieved early artist who lived in Woodford, Essex Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB Steichen & Cecil Beaton to Annie recognition as a key member of between 1924 & 1965. It features Tel: 020 8332 5655 Leibovitz & Mario Testino. Subjects the Newlyn colony, & was her artwork, suffragette material & www.kew.org.uk Admission £6, concessions £4. appointed official war artist at the displays about her life both in Daily 9.30-6.30 (Sat, Sun until Nuremberg trials. In 1919 she Woodford &, later, in Ethiopia–where 7.30); from 31 Aug, daily 9.30-6. SHIPLEY ART GALLERY obtained permission to work behind Pankhurst is buried. Admission £13, concessions £12, Prince Consort Rd, Gateshead, the scenes at Diaghilev’s Ballets children free. Tyne & Wear NE8 4JB Russes; her studies explore the WALTER ROTHSCHILD Highlights from the Kew & Tel: 0191 477 1495 splendour of costume & scenery on ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM Sherwood Collections www.twmuseums.org.uk/shipley stage but also quiet moments Akeman St, Tring, Herts HP23 6AP (until Oct 2008) Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5. Admission backstage, away from the public Tel: 020 7942 6171 Plant illustrations from the 200,000 free. eye. www.nhm.ac.uk/tring items held by the Royal Botanic 18th-Century Blues: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5. Admission Gardens, Kew–some dating from Exploring the Melancholy Mind PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY free. about 1700–& others from Dr Shirley (14 June-2 Nov 2008) 9 North Pallant, Chichester, The Blaschkas’ Incredible Sherwood’s comprehensive An examination of the way W Sussex PO19 1TJ Creatures: Sculptures from the Sea collection by today’s new wave of visual artists of 200 years ago Tel: 01243 774557 (21 July-30 Sept 2008) botanical painters from more than depicted depression. Some were www.pallant.org.uk A chance to see glass models of 30 countries. themselves depressive, some Tues-Sat 10-5 (Thurs until 8), Sun & jellyfish, sea anemones & other were interested in medical bank holidays 12.30-5. Admission creatures accurately crafted by ST MUNGO MUSEUM OF matters connected with the £7.50, students £4, children £2.30; Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka in the RELIGIOUS LIFE & ART condition, some painted melancholy family (2+2) £17. Half-price Tues all 1800s. 2 Castle St, Glasgow G4 0RH scenes, some made fun of day, & Thurs from 5pm. Tel: 0141 553 2557 depression for satirical purposes, & Driven to Abstraction: British ROYAL ACADEMY www.glasgowmuseums.com others painted friends & well-known Abstract Art from the Collection Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD Mon-Thurs & Sat 10-5, Fri & Sun 11- figures known to have suffered from (until 7 Sept 2008) Tel: 020 7300 8000 5. Admission free. periodic low spirits.

14 MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 TATE BRITAIN constructivism & the development RUPERT WACE ANCIENT WOLVERHAMPTON Millbank, London SW1P 4RG of abstraction in St Ives during the ART LTD ART GALLERY Tel: 020 7887 8008 middle of the 20th century. It 14 Old Bond St, London W1S 4PP Lichfield St, www.tate.org.uk/britain includes works by Barbara Tel: 020 7495 1623 Wolverhampton WV1 1DU Daily 10-5.50 (first Fri of month until Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Naum www.rupertwace.co.uk Tel: 01902 552055 10). Admission to gallery free. Gabo, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Mon-Fri 10-5 (14 June 11-5). www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk Francis Bacon Wilhelmina Barns-Graham & Terry Admission free. Mon-Sat 10-5. Admission free. (11 Sept 2008– 4 Jan 2009) Frost. In Our Own Image: Gods & Mortals Pop Art: Now & Then Heralding Bacon’s centenary in in Antiquity (4 June-18 July 2008) (until 9 Aug 2008) 2009, this major retrospective brings TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM Selling exhibition of sculpture Among such familiar names as Roy together the most important & ART GALLERY from Ancient Egypt & the Classical Lichenstein, Patrick Caulfield & Andy paintings from each period of the Castle St, Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8TP world spanning 3,000 years, Warhol are those of more modern artist’s life & reassesses his work in Tel: 01228 534781 depicting gods in mortal guise as artists such as Dexter Dalwood, the light of new information that www.tulliehouse.co.uk well as images of kings, princes & Michael Craig Martin & David Mach has emerged since his death. Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5 heroes. who have taken ideas from Pop Art Admission £12.50, seniors £11.50, (from 1 July, Sun 11-5). & brought them into a contemporary students & children £10.50 (under- Admission to house free. context. 12s free). Advance booking on 020 No Such Thing as Society: Hertford House, Manchester Sq, 7887 8888, or via website. Photography in Britain 1967-1987 London W1U 3BN THE WORDSWORTH TRUST (until 13 July 2008) Tel: 020 7563 9500 Dove Cottage, Grasmere, More than 150 photographs from www.wallacecollection.org Cumbria LA22 9SH Bankside, London SE1 9TG the British Council & the Arts Daily 10-5. Admission free. Tel: 015394 35544 Tel: 020 7887 8008 Council collections depict the way Boucher & Chardin: Masters of www.wordsworth.org.uk www.tate.org.uk/modern British society, from the late 1960s Modern Manners Daily 9.30-5.30. Admission £7.50 Daily 10-6 (Fri, Sat until 10). until the late 1980s, was in a state (12 June-7 Sept 2008) (including Dove Cottage admission), Admission to gallery free. of unrest & transition following Highlights of this show, focusing on children £4.50; family (1 or 2+1-3) Cy Twombly: Cycles & Seasons de-industrialisation, the rise of French genre painting & depictions £17.20. (19 June-4 Sept 2008) Thatcherism, the miners’ strikes of tea-drinking, are two major works: Paths to Fame: Turner A major exhibition of works by one & conflict in Northern Ireland as Chardin’s Lady Taking Tea, from the Watercolours from The Courtauld of the most highly regarded painters well as radical shifts in the Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery in (16 July-12 Oct 2008) working today, who rose to structure of society itself. Admission Glasgow, & Boucher’s A Lady in her A selection of works by JMW Turner, prominence in the 1950s through a £5.20, concessions £3.60, children Daybed, on loan from the Frick on loan from the Courtauld Institute, distinctive blend of scribbles & free. Collection in New York. are evidence of the the artist’s vibrantly-daubed paint. In 1957 he inventive approach to the making of left America for Italy, where he drew VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY landscape in watercolour & of his inspiration from European literature Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL Angel Alley, 80-82 Whitechapel High wide variety of style & technique. & classical culture & became Tel: 020 7942 2000 St, London E1 7QX influenced by antiquity, myth & the www.vam.ac.uk Tel: 020 7522 7888 WORLD MUSEUM LIVERPOOL Mediterranean. Admission £10, Daily 10-5.45 (Fri until 10). www.whitechapel.org William Brown St, Liverpool L3 8EN seniors £9, concessions & children Admission to museum free. Wed-Sun 11-6 (Thurs until 9). Tel: 0151 478 4393 £8 (under-12s free). Advance Fashion V Sport Admission free. www.worldmuseumliverpool.org.uk booking on 020 7887 8888, or via (5 Aug-14 Dec 2008) Wang Jianwei & Ali Kazma Daily 10-5. Admission free. website. Contemporary fashion & global (9 July-17 Aug 2008) The Beat Goes On sporting wear have both been One of China’s best-known (12 July 2008-1 Nov 2009) TATE ST IVES inspired by street style. Around 60 conceptual artists, Wang Jianwei An exploration of Liverpool’s Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, outfits on display include uses video to explore the presence musical identity, from early Cornwall TR26 1TG performance sportswear, clothes by of history & relationships of power transatlantic musical influences Tel: 01736 796226 fashion designers such as Stella within China’s changing social & of the 1940s & 1950s to the www.tate.org.uk/stives McCartney, & garments under the economic background. phenomenal success of Daily 10-5.30. Admission £5.75, Japanese label Visvim that illustrate Merseybeat & the continuing concessions £3.25, children free. the influence of sportswear on high WHITWORTH ART GALLERY popularity of Merseyside musicians Dawn of a Colony: Picturing the fashion. Admission £5, concessions University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, today. It is illustrated with audio West, St Ives 1811-1888 & children £3 (under-12s free). Manchester M15 6ER points, jukeboxes & vintage films, (until 21 Sept 2008) Advance booking on 0870 906 Tel: 0161 275 7450 plus Beatles memorabilia & Following the trend for remote, 3883, or via website. www.whitworth.man.ac.uk opportunities for visitors to mix unspoilt locations & subject-matter China Design Now: Photography Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5. tracks or to try out their own singing for plein-air painting set by Parisian by John Ross (until 13 July 2008) Admission free. voices. studios, artists from Europe & North As China opens up to global Neverland: Rediscovering Child Art America came to St Ives where they influences, the exhibition takes a (until 17 Aug 2008) created an international colony with look at the explosion of new Works by Pablo Picasso, Jean a cosmopolitan outlook. Starting design in China, from the Olympic Dubuffet, Paul Klee, Joan Miro & The details in this guide were correct with the arrival of JMW Turner in stadium to the latest fashion & Karel Appel show how these at the time of going to press, but 1811, the exhibition considers other graphics, & at developments in artists were inspired by children’s may be subject to change. key figures such as Edward Cooke, three rapidly expanding art, in which they recognised a For a more comprehensive guide James Clarke Hook, Henry Moore & cities–Beijing, Shanghai & Shenzhen. unique creativity & spontaneity. visit our website - John Brett. Admission £9.40, concessions £7.20, The exhibition looks at two www.nationalheritage.org.uk Modernism in St Ives students & children £4.75 (under- pioneering figures in child art, Material for possible inclusion in the (until 21 Sept 2008) 12s free); family (2+2) £23. Viennese Professor Franz Cizek next listings (October 2008 -January A selection of works from the Tate Advance booking on 0870 906 (1865-1946) & British teacher 2009) may be sent to collection explores the influence of 3883, or via website. Marion Richardson (1892-1946). [email protected]

MUSEUM NEWS SUMMER 08 15 EVENTS ✁ THE GARDEN HISTORY MUSEUM, July 29th MUSEUM OF GARDEN HISTORY I am a member of National Heritage, Please send me one LAMBETH PALACE ROAD, LONDON SE1 7LB free ticket and ……. tickets at £10 each for the visit to Tuesday, 29th July, 6.30pm The Garden History Museum on Tuesday, July 29th at 6.30pm. I enclose remittance and stamped addressed envelope. The Museum of Garden History was created in 1977 in the historic St Mary- at-Lambeth Church, which had been Name ...... saved from demolition. Its inspiration came from the discovery of the Address ...... neglected and forgotten tomb of the 17th century plant hunters, John ...... Tradescant, father and son...... In the graveyard, the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury designed a Telephone number ...... garden in the style, which the Tradecsants would have found familiar – To: Liz Moore the elder Tradescant had been head gardener at the Salisbury National Heritage Administration Centre family home, Hatfield, from 1610 to 1615. The 17th century style Rye Road, Hawkhurst, Kent TN18 5DW knot garden was planted with authentic plants in 1981 and (01580 752 052) officially opened by the Queen Mother in 1983.

Inside, the collections are divided into tools, ephemera and the ✁ library. The tools are one of the finest collections on dislay, and the ephemera include prints, photographs, bills and catalogues. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AT THE WELLCOME There is also a new multi-media display telling the story of the COLLECTION, November 20th local area and its sites of historical, horticultural and social I am a member of National Heritage, Please send me one free significance. ticket and ……. tickets at £10 each for the visit to The WELLCOME COLLECTION Wellcome Collection on Thursday, November 20th, at 6.00pm. I enclose remittance and stamped addressed envelope. 183 EUSTON ROAD, LONDON NW1 2BE AGM, Thursday 20th November, 6pm Name ...... The £30m Wellcome Collection was opened in June 2007 and was short-listed for this year’s Art Fund Prize and has had over Address ...... 300,000 visitors already. There are three aspects to it, with an eclectic selection from the ...... Henry Wellcome’s original “cabinet of curiosities” which includes an ancient mummy, Napoleon’s toothbrush, Darwin’s walking ...... stick, Nelson’s razor, Florence Nightingale’s moccasins, a lock of George III’s hair (containing arsenic which was used not to poison Telephone number ...... him but, in 18th century medical practice, to attempt to cure his perceived madness), and Disraeli’s death mask. To: Liz Moore There is also a medical display from Wellcome’s museum of National Heritage Administration Centre medical discovery that includes a DNA-sequencing robot and an Rye Road, Hawkhurst, Kent TN18 5DW art gallery with specially commissioned works including a Marc (01580 752 052) Quinn sculpture.

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