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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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 […]
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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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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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After a number of false starts caused by pandemics and accidents, Mike and Dot Millward managed at last to hold a garden party in June. The event was only slightly marred by a torrential thunder storm which held off for almost an hour to allow members to see the garden. £200 was raised.
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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.
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A great task to do when visiting the museum and you have you mobile phone with you. From the details shown can you match them to their paintings?
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Think you know your Art? Test your knowledge with this intriguing quiz.
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The Mirror of the World is one of three books printed by William Caxton amongst the early printed books in the Hart Collection at Blackburn Museum. Caxton was remarkable. Born in Kent in c.1422 he became a prominent textile merchant in Bruges in present-day Belgium, and undertook diplomatic missions for Edward IV. It was probably Edward’s exile in 1470 during […]
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