Below is a chronological list of our currently planned coach trips, Behind the Scenes and Gallery visits, walks and talks.
This is followed by a list of some of the online offerings from the Museums Service. For a full list of what is on across the Service click here.
Bristol is well-known to be a ‘walkable’ city and this was especially true in the late Middle Ages when the city was much smaller.
This is an online talk with Professor Helen Fulton and Dr Evan Jones from the University of Bristol about different ways in which the city can be mapped on foot.
To book a place for this online talk via the Museum’s website click here.
Winterbourne House is a fine example of an Arts & Crafts house and garden, built in 1903 for John Nettlefold, British industrialist and entrepreneur, and his wife Margaret.
PLEASE NOTE
The booking form enclosed with the March newsletter also featured the possibility of visiting the Barber Institute close by, but their rebuilding work has evidently over-run. It should have been reopened in March, but is now closed until the summer.
As an alternative, the Lapworth Museum of Geology looks interesting, although it is further away. More like 900m than the 400 to the Barber. A good prospect for the more intrepid though!
Cost: £45 per person.
Book online using the following link:
Alternatively you may book by post using the form enclosed with the March newsletter.
Organizer: Richard Avery, membership@friendsofbmga.org.uk, 0117 329 6656.
An opportunity to enjoy a ride in a 1960 Royal Blue coach to Dyrham Park to view the refurbishment of the house and formal garden. Member Sally Dore is on hand to give a ‘1,000 years of war’ tour.
Cost: £37.50 per person.
Book online using the following link:
Alternatively you may book by post using the form enclosed with the March newsletter.
Organizer/driver: Richard Avery, membership@friendsofbmga.org.uk, 0117 329 6656.
To coincide with a major exhibition of Angelica Kauffman’s work at the Royal Academy, Dr Jan Cox will give us an overview of this celebrated 18th century female artist.
Cost: £9.50 per person.
Book online using the following link:
Alternatively you may book by post using the form enclosed with the March newsletter.
Administrator: Catherine Dixon, blackrockcfd@hotmail.com, 01275 849200.
A guided tour of the Corn Exchange, built in 1741, and the market including recently-discovered underground World War II air raid shelters.
Cost: £11.00 per person.
Book online using the following link:
Alternatively you may book by post using the form enclosed with the March newsletter.
Organizer: Katherine Martin, katherine_martin@hotmail.com, 07891 547624.
Maud Rowell, who began losing her sight when 19 years of age, examines how many of the paintings we all love can help us understand what the blind and partially-sighted really see.
Cost: £9.50 per person.
Book online using the following link:
Alternatively you may book by post using the form enclosed with the March newsletter.
Administrator: Sally Dore, sally.dore@cantab.net, 0117 942 2620.
Julia Carver, Curator of Fine Art, will give us a tour of the exhibition centred around the National Gallery loan of Constable’s The Hay Wain.
Cost: £12.50 per person.
Book online using the following link:
Alternatively you may book by post using the form enclosed with the March newsletter.
Organizer: Catherine Dixon, blackrockcfd@hotmail.com, 01275 849200.
A visit to this biennial exhibition of outdoor sculpture set in the beautiful gardens of the Old Rectory in the village of Quenington, Gloucestershire.
Cost: £42.00 per person.
Book online using the following link:
Alternatively you may book by post using the form enclosed with the March newsletter.
Organizer: Carol Lear, carolear@btinternet.com, 0117 942 3610.
A Date for your Diary.
Lucy Bailey will deliver the lecture ‘J M W Turner’s Historical Vignettes‘
A booking form will be enclosed with the June newsletter.
