On the evening of Wednesday 27th November Broadway Museum and Art Gallery took yet another step forward in its mission to make the Museum truly reflective of its community. The artefacts and panels in the newly opened Broadway Room tell the story of aspects of Broadway: how the parish worked to set up its own [...]
100 years ago, just six minutes of a solar eclipse was enough to provide proof of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rest is history. A new micro-sculpture of Einstein, one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, has gone on display in the Willard Wigan Room at Broadway Museum and Art [...]
Twins, Malachi and Levi (pictured) visited our Museum last week. They had travelled with their mother and grandmother from Manchester to see our exhibition of Willard Wigan’s micro-sculptures. The boys knew all about Willard as they had read about him in one of their school books Micro Man Makes BIG News and they were very [...]
Image: Sir Gordon Russell. One of the recent, well attended talks at the Museum, as part of the NFU series, was that of Martin Blakeman, former Master Craftsman for Gordon Russell Ltd and current volunteer at Gordon Russell Design Museum. He took his audience through the organic growth of the Gordon Russell Design business, its [...]
Image: Paul Hirons, Dr Federica Gigante and Dr Joshua Bull at the Launch Event. A new exhibition, curated by our partners at the Ashmolean Museum, has been opened. It is called ‘Dimensions: The Mathematics of Symmetry and Space’ and is the result of a ground-breaking collaboration between the Ashmolean and Oxford University’s world-renowned Mathematical Institute. [...]
Staff and Volunteers Visit Sezincote A group of volunteers and staff from Broadway Museum & Art Gallery recently visited the wonderful house and gardens at nearby Sezincote. It proved to be a delightful and rewarding afternoon out. Set in beautiful grounds and dating from the early nineteenth century, Sezincote House is a unique example of [...]
Changing Faces: new Children’s Trail launched The museum team have developed a great new Children’s Trail, giving younger visitors an opportunity to investigate the museum’s many and varied exhibits and answer questions based on what they find. Themed to tie in with our current exhibition, Painting Faces: The Art of Flattery, it’s a fun way [...]
New Exhibition of Portraits by Local Young Artists A number of superb, thought-provoking portraits by local art students are on display in the museum this summer summer. The students, many of whom are now studying art and design at University, were sixth form students at Chipping Campden School when they created their work. The portraits [...]
Recently we hosted a visit from an enthusiastic group of 6-8 year old schoolchildren from Broadway First School, as part of their Arts Week. It was a delightful experience. The 36 children in the Group took part in a packed programme. Each child engaged in several exciting activities organised specifically for them by museum staff. Firstly, [...]
Despite slightly unseasonable weather on 15th June, the Museum’s annual charity fund raising dinner, a themed Moroccan Evening, held at Luggers Hall, Broadway was a splendid affair: delicious, authentic, Moroccan food, paired with stunning wines, resulted in a fabulous tented dining experience in a rose perfumed walled garden. Thanks to the hard work of the [...]
