Tuesday, 18th December, 2pm in the Victorian Gallery A talk by Dr Cynthia Johnston Arts and Crafts Master of Lustre: William de Morgan’s ceramics A free afternoon talk with co-curator of the Nature of Gothic exhibition
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Review of “The Nature of Gothic” Exhibition at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
“Friends of the Year 2025” Award
The Friends of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery are joint winners of the 2025 BAFM “Friends of the Year” Award The award is sponsored by the Marsh Charitable Trust in partnership with the British Association of Friends of Museums. The Marsh Trust specialises in providing small annual grants to charities across a wide range of activities and runs the Marsh […]
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Dating Antique Photographs
Longer Opening Hours at the Museum & Art Gallery!
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery is now open 5 days a week and for an extra hour each day. The revised opening hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 11 am – 4.45 pm Closed Sunday, Monday and all Bank Holidays
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Joy Heffernan (1931-2024)
With great sadness I must report the death on 21st February 2024 of Joy Heffernan, our long serving Chairman and then President, at the family home in Balderstone. She had not been well and had been unable to attend our meeting for some time. Our thoughts are with Seamus, JaneAnn, Kevin and all her family. Joy became Chairman of the […]
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MUSEUM RE-OPENS AFTER ROOF WORK!
The Museum is open once again, now with a new roof. The Hart Gallery, will not reopen until the summer. For more information see Visiting Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery
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Icon with Saint Vsevolod, Crown Prince and Wonder Worker
Of the 63 icons in the Blackburn collection., the most common subject is the Mother of God (Virgin and Child), and nearly half are of this subject or some aspect of the life of Christ. The rest almost all show saints and a few prophets. Many of the saints are familiar to us – Michael, George, Nicholas and John the […]
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A surprise encounter Down Under: Mary Reibey’s letter from the colony, 1792
By Mike Millward Early in 2010, Dot and I visited Sydney, New South Wales to stay with our son. Sydney is a wonderful city, full of life and culture, and while there we visited many museums and galleries. One of the exhibitions we saw was in the Mitchell Library, the National Library of New South Wales. As part of its […]
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The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Blackburn Exchange by Vladimir Sherwood, 1863
The Russian painter Vladimir Shervud (1833-97), known in England as William Sherwood, came to Blackburn at the invitation of John Charles Dickinson, the son of William Dickinson, a local early 19th century loom manufacturers who played a prominent role in the development of the Lancashire Loom. Sherwood lived at 7 Princes Street, off King Street.
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