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
Two lunchtime talks have been arranged for 12.30 on Thursdays 21st and 28th March in The Museum. The talks will last for about half an hour and will take place in front of the art works in the Gallery. On 21st, Ken Ford will talk about 5 paintings recently newly hung in the Victorian Art Gallery. On 28th Mike Millward […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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.
It was leaning against the store room wall where it had gathered dust for over 25 years. Vanessa Mitchell lifted a corner of the sheet that covered it to reveal the back of a rather large painting, obviously in poor condition.
