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Enjoy 9 days of events and activities and find out more about the wonderfully diverse and dynamic museums in the City of Bath World Heritage Site. Contact details and days open – October 2016
Museum Sat 22 Sun 23 Mon 24 Tue 25 Wed 26 Thur 27 Fri 28 Sat 29 Sun 30 American Museum in Britain (gardens and grounds) | 01225 460503 ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ www.americanmuseum.org | [email protected] Bath Abbey | 01225 422662 | www.bathabbey.org [email protected] Bath Jewish Burial Ground | 07761 586728 ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ www.bathjewishburialground.org | www.thebathcrinium.com Bath Postal Museum | 01225 460333 ✘ ✘ ✘ www.bathpostalmuseum.co.uk | [email protected] Beckford’s Tower | 01225 460705 Free admission to the Tower during Museums Week is by booked tour only www.beckfordstower.org.uk | [email protected] Fashion Museum | 01225 477789 www.fashionmuseum.co.uk | [email protected] Herschel Museum of Astronomy 01225 4466865 | www.herschelmuseum.org.uk Holburne Museum | 01225 388569 www.holburne.org | [email protected] Keynsham Civic Centre | A Roman Baths event – 01225 477785 ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Mayor’s Parlour | 01225 477411 ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ www.mayorofbath.co.uk | [email protected] Museum of Bath Architecture ✘ 01225 333895 | www.museumofbatharchitecture.org.uk Museum of East Asian Art ✘ 01225 464640 | www.meaa.org.uk | [email protected] Museum of Bath at Work 01225 318348 | www.bath-at-work.org.uk | [email protected] No. 1 Royal Crescent | 01225 428126 www.no1royalcrescent.org.uk | [email protected] Prior Park Landscape Garden | 01225 833977 ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ www.nationaltrust.org.uk/priorpark | @nationaltrust.org.uk Radstock Museum* | 01761 437722 ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ www.radstockmuseum.co.uk | [email protected] Roman Baths Museum | 01225 477785 www.romanbaths.co.uk | [email protected] Sally Lunn’s House | 01225 461634 | www.sallylunns.co.uk Saltford Brass Mill | 01225 317277 ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ www.brassmill.com | [email protected] Victoria Art Gallery | 01225 477233 www.victoriagal.org.uk | [email protected]
*Please note, although there is an event on Monday 24 October the museum is closed. Free admission is not available on the afternoon on Thursday 27 October. Saturday 22 October Beckford’s Tower and Lansdown Cemetery Tour 11am-12 noon Museums Week celebrates the unique Fully Alive Art Exhibition 9am-5.30pm A guided tour of the Tower and the cemetery An exhibition of paintings from the national that was once Beckford’s garden. Booking collections and activities in our local museums Methodist Modern Art Collection. The essential: [email protected] or 01225 in Bath & North East Somerset. exhibition will be complemented by a 460705. (Free admission to the Tower during family-friendly discovery trail. Museums Week is by booked tour only.) Enjoy 9 days of events and activities and find out more about the Bath Abbey A Beckford’s Tower and Museum A wonderfully diverse and dynamic museums in the City of Bath World Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns 10am-12 noon The Mail Coach 2pm-5pm Heritage Site. Go out and about in North East Somerset by taking Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our Getting letters around the country was slow fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different until a mail coach was introduced. Find out part in free events during this special celebration of museums. sweet topping every morning. about how the mail coach changed the mail Sally Lunn’s House A delivery in our special exhibition. Bath Postal Museum A Ex Libris 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm Learn a bit of Latin and make a Roman Towers of Lansdown Walking Tour bookmark. 3pm-4pm Roman Baths A A walking tour of the various Towers which can be found around Lansdown. Booking Saltford, the Brass Industry and essential: [email protected] or 01225 Waterpower 10am-4pm 460705. (Free admission to the Tower during Displays in Saltford Brass Mill on the Avon Museums Week is by booked tour only.) Brass Industry, the use of waterpower and the Beckford’s Tower and Museum A wider history of Saltford. Saltford Brass Mill Project A
Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail Sunday 23 October 10.30am-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) Hunt around the museum for objects which Fully Alive Art Exhibition 9am-5.30pm connect with our exhibition’s theme of An exhibition of paintings from the national Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. Methodist Modern Art Collection. The No. 1 Royal Crescent A exhibition will be complemented by a family- friendly discovery trail. Draw like an Architect 10.30am-5.00pm Bath Abbey A Discover how architects use drawing instruments to create their designs by Ex Libris 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm reproducing famous Bath buildings, using a Learn a bit of Latin and make a Roman protractor and other equipment. bookmark. Museum of Bath Architecture A Roman Baths A
The Big Draw Saltford, the Brass Industry and 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm Waterpower 10am-4pm We do mean BIG! Make a giant drawing of Displays in Saltford Brass Mill on the Avon yourself. Brass Industry, the use of waterpower and the Victoria Art Gallery A wider history of Saltford. Saltford Brass Mill Project A
A All welcome or suitable ages shown. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns 10am-12 noon Monday 24 October Silver Carousels Tuesday 25 October Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our 10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3.30pm fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different Fully Alive Art Exhibition 9am-5.30pm Come and make a moving carousel toy Fully Alive Art Exhibition 9am-5.30pm sweet topping every morning. An exhibition of paintings from the national inspired by a fountain in our exhibition An exhibition of paintings from the national Sally Lunn’s House A Methodist Modern Art Collection. The Silver: Light and Shade. Methodist Modern Art Collection. The exhibition will be complemented by a Holburne Museum 5-11 exhibition will be complemented by a Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail family-friendly discovery trail. family-friendly discovery trail. 10.30am-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) Bath Abbey A Animal Art Trail 10.30am-5pm Bath Abbey A Hunt around the museum for objects which Explore the animals hiding in the gallery. connect with our exhibition’s theme of Autumn at Prior Park 10am-4.30pm Victoria Art Gallery A Hallowe’en Trail 10am-4.30pm Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. Discover creepy creatures on a spooky Discover creepy creatures on a spooky No. 1 Royal Crescent A Hallowe’en trail for £1.00 per child, or just Twenty Minute Tales: Bathampton Hallowe’en trail for £1.00 per child, or just enjoy Prior Park in its autumn finery. and Claverton 11am-11.20am enjoy Prior Park in its autumn finery. Draw like an Architect 10.30am-5.00pm Prior Park Landscape Garden A An illustrated talk on the stories of Bathampton Prior Park Landscape Garden A Discover how architects use drawing and Claverton. instruments to create their designs by Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns Museum of Bath at Work A Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns 10am-12 noon reproducing famous Bath buildings, using a 10am-12 noon Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our protractor and other equipment. Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our Welcome to the Mayor’s Parlour 11am-4pm fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different Museum of Bath Architecture A fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different 800 years of history – see the City’s Royal sweet topping every morning. sweet topping every morning. Charters, Gold, Silver and Sword. Sally Lunn’s House A Beckford’s Tower and Lansdown Sally Lunn’s House A The Mayor’s Parlour A Cemetery Tour 11am-12 noon Ex Libris 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm A guided tour of the Tower and the cemetery Ex Libris 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm The Mail Coach 11am-5pm Learn a bit of Latin and make a Roman that was once Beckford’s garden. Booking Learn a bit of Latin and make a Roman Getting letters around the country was slow bookmark. essential: [email protected] or 01225 bookmark. until a mail coach was introduced. Find out Roman Baths A 460705. (Free admission to the Tower during Roman Baths A about how the mail coach changed the mail Museums Week is by booked tour only.) delivery in our special exhibition. Silver Carousels Beckford’s Tower and Museum A Bath Postal Museum A 10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3.30pm Come and make a moving carousel toy Towers of Lansdown Walking Tour Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail inspired by a fountain in our exhibition 3pm-4pm 12.00 noon-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) Silver: Light and Shade A walking tour of the various Towers which Hunt around the museum for objects which Holburne Museum A can be found around Lansdown. Booking connect with our exhibition’s theme of essential: [email protected] or 01225 Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. 460705. (Free admission to the Tower during No. 1 Royal Crescent A Museums Week is by booked tour only.) Beckford’s Tower and Museum A Liquid Light Show 2pm-3pm Workshop with Bath Sound and Light. Use the technology of the 1960s to make a short film. Museum of Bath at Work A
Outdoor Fossil Hunt 2pm-4pm Outdoor fossil hunt on coal spoil heap. Bring small hammer and suitable clothes and footwear. Goggles provided. Meet outside Museum. Radstock Museum 5-11
A All welcome or suitable ages shown. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail Welcome to the Mayor’s Parlour 11am-4pm Wednesday 26 October Twenty Minute Tales: Bathford and 10.30am-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) 800 years of history – see the City’s Royal Warleigh 11am-11.20am Hunt around the museum for objects which Charters, Gold, Silver and Sword. Fully Alive Art Exhibition 9am-5.30pm An illustrated talk on the stories of Bathford connect with our exhibition’s theme of The Mayor’s Parlour A An exhibition of paintings from the national and Warleigh. Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. Methodist Modern Art Collection. The Museum of Bath at Work A No. 1 Royal Crescent A The Mail Coach 11am-5pm exhibition will be complemented by a Getting letters around the country was slow family-friendly discovery trail. Welcome to the Mayor’s Parlour 11am-4pm Animal Art Trail 10.30am-5pm until a mail coach was introduced. Find out Bath Abbey A 800 years of history – see the City’s Royal Explore the animals hiding in the gallery. about how the mail coach changed the mail Charters, Gold, Silver and Sword. Victoria Art Gallery A delivery in our special exhibition. Autumn at Prior Park 10am-4.30pm The Mayor’s Parlour A Bath Postal Museum A Discover creepy creatures on a spooky Fairy Tale Faces Hallowe’en trail for £1.00 per child, or just Monster Treasure Trails 1pm-4pm 10.30am-11.30am and 12 noon-1pm Falconry Demonstration enjoy Prior Park in its autumn finery. Design your own map of the museum and Create a troll picture or sculpture using card 12.30pm-1pm and 2.30pm-3pm Prior Park Landscape Garden A grounds, filled with scary creatures of your and collage. Come along to see owls, eagles, hawks and own invention. Victoria Art Gallery A falcons swoop over the Museum grounds. Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns 10am-12 noon American Museum in Britain 3-11 American Museum in Britain A Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our Twenty Minute Tales: Bathwick fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different Leg-Room 1pm-4.30pm 11am-11.20am Leg-Room 1pm-4.30pm sweet topping every morning. See our brilliant leggings and trousers. Create An illustrated talk on the story of Bathwick. See our brilliant leggings and trousers. Create Sally Lunn’s House A life-size leggings with amazing patterns. Museum of Bath at Work A life-size leggings with amazing patterns. Fashion Museum A Fashion Museum A Ex Libris 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm Horrible Histories – Making Remedies Learn a bit of Latin and make a Roman Draw like an Architect 2pm-5pm Workshop 11am-3.30pm Draw like an Architect 2pm-5pm bookmark. Discover how architects use drawing Drop in to find a cure and mix your own herbal Discover how architects use drawing Roman Baths A instruments to create their designs by remedies. Use a quill and ink to take home instruments to create their designs by reproducing famous Bath buildings, using a your own medicine label. reproducing famous Bath buildings, using a Magnificent Masks protractor and other equipment. No. 1 Royal Crescent 5-11 protractor and other equipment. 10.30am-11.30am and 12 noon-1pm Museum of Bath Architecture A Museum of Bath Architecture A Get mask-making at the gallery and turn yourself into a work of art. Liquid Light Show 2pm-3pm Liquid Light Show 2pm-3pm Victoria Art Gallery A Workshop with Bath Sound and Light. Use the Workshop with Bath Sound and Light. Use the technology of the 1960s to make a short film. technology of the 1960s to make a short film. Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail Museum of Bath at Work A Museum of Bath at Work A 10.30am-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) Hunt around the museum for objects which Family Fun – Red Crafts 2pm -4pm connect with our exhibition’s theme of Celebrate our Red exhibition, enjoy an Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. afternoon of red-themed craft making and No. 1 Royal Crescent A learn about Chinese symbols. Museum of East Asian Art A Animal Art Trail 10.30am-5pm Explore the animals hiding in the gallery. The Big Ben Project 2pm-4pm Victoria Art Gallery A Help us draw a huge version of Big Ben on the floor of the museum, using giant architectural instruments. Museum of Bath Architecture A
A All welcome or suitable ages shown. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Thursday 27 October Fairy Tale Faces Happy Hallowe’en! 1pm-4pm Friday 28 October 10.30am-11.30am and 12 noon-1pm Join Wiltshire Scrapstore for an array of creepy Fully Alive Art Exhibition 9am-5.30pm Create a troll picture or sculpture using card crafts. Fully Alive Art Exhibition An exhibition of paintings from the national and collage. American Museum in Britain 3-11 9am-5.30pm Methodist Modern Art Collection. The Victoria Art Gallery A An exhibition of paintings from the national exhibition will be complemented by a Leg-Room 1pm-4.30pm Methodist Modern Art Collection. The family-friendly discovery trail. Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail See our brilliant leggings and trousers. Create exhibition will be complemented by a Bath Abbey A 10.30am-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) life-size leggings with amazing patterns. family-friendly discovery trail. Hunt around the museum for objects which Fashion Museum A Bath Abbey A Autumn at Prior Park 10am-4.30pm connect with our exhibition’s theme of Discover creepy creatures on a spooky Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. Draw like an Architect 2pm-5pm Autumn at Prior Park Hallowe’en trail for £1.00 per child, or just No. 1 Royal Crescent A Discover how architects use drawing 10am-4.30pm enjoy Prior Park in its autumn finery. instruments to create their designs by Discover creepy creatures on a spooky Prior Park Landscape Garden A Welcome to the Mayor’s Parlour reproducing famous Bath buildings, using a Hallowe’en trail for £1.00 11am-4pm protractor and other equipment. per child, or just enjoy Prior Park in its autumn Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns 10am-12 noon 800 years of history – see the City’s Royal Museum of Bath Architecture A finery. Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our Charters, Gold, Silver and Sword. Prior Park Landscape Garden A fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different The Mayor’s Parlour A The Mail Coach 2pm-5pm sweet topping every morning. Getting letters around the country was slow Ex Libris Sally Lunn’s House A Become a Shopkeeper Workshop until a mail coach was introduced. Find out 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm 11am-3.30pm about how the mail coach changed the mail Learn a bit of Latin and make a Roman Ex Libris 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm Dress up in a costume to stamp books delivery in our special exhibition. bookmark. Learn a bit of Latin and make a Roman in the Bookbindery, make sweets at the Bath Postal Museum A Roman Baths A bookmark. Confectioners and other exciting activities. Roman Baths A No. 1 Royal Crescent 3-11 Liquid Light Show 2pm-3pm Animal Art Trail Workshop with Bath Sound and Light. Use the 10.30am-5pm Mosaic Mix-up 10.30am-12 noon Twenty Minute Tales: Batheaston and technology of the 1960s to make a short film. Explore the animals hiding in the gallery. Create mosaic pictures and patterns, using Swainswick 11am-11.20am Museum of Bath at Work A Victoria Art Gallery A card and special papers. An illustrated talk on the stories of Batheaston Keynsham Civic Centre A and Swainswick. Museums at Night Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns Museum of Bath at Work A 6pm-8pm; last entry at 7pm. 10am-12 noon Hallowe’en Bats 10.30am-5.30pm See the Great Baths in a new light, as they are Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our Scary bats have taken over our historic illuminated by torchlight. fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different kitchen. Come and count them all for a Roman Baths A sweet topping every morning. Hallowe’en treat. Sally Lunn’s House A No.1 Royal Crescent A Plasticine Pets Life in Victorian Radstock 10.30am-11.30am and 12 noon-1pm 10.30am-12.30pm Use plasticine to make mini-sculptures. Experience what everyday life was like in Victoria Art Gallery A Victorian Radstock. Meet a miner, his wife, a shopkeeper and a schoolteacher. Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail Radstock Museum A 10.30am-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) Hunt around the museum for objects which Animal Art Trail 10.30am-5pm connect with our exhibition’s theme of Explore the animals hiding in the gallery. Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. Victoria Art Gallery A No. 1 Royal Crescent A
A All welcome or suitable ages shown. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Welcome to the Mayor’s Parlour Saturday 29 October Sunday 30 October Draw like an Architect 10.30am-5.00pm 11am-4pm Discover how architects use drawing 800 years of history – see the City’s Royal Fully Alive Art Exhibition 9am-5.30pm Fully Alive Art Exhibition 9am-5.30pm instruments to create their designs by Charters, Gold, Silver and Sword. An exhibition of paintings from the national An exhibition of paintings from the national reproducing famous Bath buildings, using a The Mayor’s Parlour A Methodist Modern Art Collection. Try our Methodist Modern Art Collection. The protractor and other equipment. family-friendly discovery trail. exhibition will be complemented by a Museum of Bath Architecture A Twenty Minute Tales: Twerton and Newton Bath Abbey A family-friendly discovery trail. St Loe 11am-11.20am Bath Abbey A Bath Jewish Burial Ground – Open Day An illustrated talk on the stories of Twerton Saltford, the Brass Industry and 11.00am-4pm and Newton St Loe. Waterpower 10am-4pm Saltford, the Brass Industry and Visit beautiful and tranquil burial ground, the Museum of Bath at Work A Displays in Saltford Brass Mill on the Avon Waterpower 10am-4pm resting place of Bath’s Jewish community Brass Industry, the use of waterpower and the Displays in Saltford Brass Mill on the Avon during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Big Apple 1pm-4pm wider history of Saltford. Brass Industry, the use of waterpower and the Bath Jewish Burial Ground A Join us for an autumnal apple celebration. Saltford Brass Mill Project A wider history of Saltford. American Museum in Britain 3-11 Saltford Brass Mill Project A Beckford’s Tower and Lansdown Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns 10am-12 noon Cemetery Tour Make a Sundial 1pm-3pm Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our Tastings of Sally Lunn Buns 10am-12 noon 11am-12 noon and 3pm-4pm Come and see a beautiful sundial in the fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different Come and enjoy a tasting of one of our A guided tour of the Tower and the cemetery museum, hear how it works and make a sweet topping every morning. fabulous Sally Lunn buns. Taste a different that was once Beckford’s garden. Booking simple version to take home. Sally Lunn’s House A sweet topping every morning. essential: [email protected] or 01225 Herschel Museum of Astronomy 5-11 Sally Lunn’s House A 460705. (Free admission to the Tower during Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail Museums Week is by booked tour only.) Draw like an Architect 2pm-5pm 10.30am-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) Pleasure and Leisure Family Trail Beckford’s Tower and Museum A Discover how architects use drawing Hunt for objects linked to the theme of 10.30am-5.30pm (last entry at 4.30pm) instruments to create their designs by Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. Hunt around the museum for objects which reproducing famous Bath buildings, using a No. 1 Royal Crescent A connect with our exhibition’s theme of protractor and other equipment. Indulgence. Draw a cake as part of the trail. Museum of Bath Architecture A Draw like an Architect 10.30am-5.00pm No. 1 Royal Crescent A Discover how architects use drawing Liquid Light Show 2pm-3pm instruments to create their designs by Workshop with Bath Sound and Light. Use the reproducing famous Bath buildings, using a technology of the 1960s to make a short film. protractor and other equipment. Museum of Bath at Work A Museum of Bath Architecture A
The Mail Coach 2pm-5pm Beckford’s Tower and Lansdown Getting letters around the country was slow Cemetery Tour until a mail coach was introduced. Find out 11am-12 noon and 3pm-4pm about how the mail coach changed the mail A guided tour of the Tower and the cemetery delivery in our special exhibition. that was once Beckford’s garden. Booking Bath Postal Museum A essential: [email protected] or 01225 460705. (Free admission to the Tower during Tea Ceremony Demonstration 6pm-7pm Museums Week is by booked tour only.) Learn about the essence of Japanese tea Beckford’s Tower and Museum A ceremony, taste a selection of Asian tea, immerse in the tranquil Japanese music. The Mail Coach 2pm-5pm Museum of East Asian Art A Getting letters around the country was slow until a mail coach was introduced. Find out about how the mail coach changed the mail delivery in our special exhibition. Bath Postal Museum A A All welcome or suitable ages shown. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Children’s Trail I am gold, glisten in the sun, and It was used as the guard for help you tell the time. Can you find the dead by frightening me? Do you know what I am? off demons and robbers Clues American Museum in Britain Museum of East Asian Art
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