One of the unsung heroes at the museum is our cleaner, Spencer Hope, a man who could "polish floors for England". He works behind the scenes, helping us keep the museum clean, tidy and safe for our visitors. Part of his work involves getting into nooks and crannies to get things squeaky clean and it [...]
Thank you so much to the 40 children who braved our Halloween Trail this year. It was great to hear the whoops of excitement in the museum as you spotted the spiders, pumpkins and skeletons. We were very impressed by the originality and imagination shown in your spooktacular costume designs for a fangtastic party. We [...]
It's Halloween, which gives us a great opportunity to explore witches and witchcraft and how they were regarded during the late seventeenth century, a period when our beautiful museum building was in its heyday as a busy coaching inn. Witch Marks, or Apotropaic Markings if you're posh, were used back then as devices for warding [...]
Picture the scene. Doug working on some calligraphy in his studio, sitting stock still to get the detail right, and a couple of museum visitors quietly watching, genuinely thinking Doug is a mannequin. They were more than shocked when the artist suddenly moved and it gave Doug a bit of a turn as well, as [...]
Is your family brave enough to take part in our fangtastic Halloween trail? From Friday 23rd October to Sunday 1st November we’ll be hosting our children’s Halloween events. Come and take part. Drop by the museum to see if you can solve our tricky puzzle. Join the spooky trail and try to spot all the [...]
The Council of Europe and the European Commission set up Europe Heritage Days in 1991 to raise awareness and appreciation of the richness and diversity of Europe’s cultural assets as well as the need for care and protection of them for posterity. The central principle behind the days was simple and compelling. They would throw [...]
Welcome Back! We are excited to announce that Broadway Museum & Art Gallery will reopen its doors on Tuesday 8th September 2020! The museum will remain open Tuesday to Saturday (10:30am - 4.00pm) until our winter closure in late December. In addition to our permanent exhibitions about Broadway’s history, the world-famous colony of American artists and [...]
A 1920s-style evening dress made for Joanna Lumley for a stage role, is just one of the beautiful items on display in Beauty, Style & Fashion, the first of our three special exhibitions this year. The exhibition explores the depiction of beauty, style and fashion using a superb selection of original drawings, paintings, gowns and [...]
What could be more iconic than the scene at the end of the 1933 classic film, King Kong? A huge ape atop the Empire State Building, his tiny girlfriend, played by Fay Wray, in one hand, fending off aeroplanes with the other. Exciting stuff! Now imagine all of this taking place on a needle - [...]
Facets of Nature, a fascinating talk on gemstones by an expert facet cutter, got our 2020 lecture series off to a very polished start last week. In an entertaining, well-attended talk, Jamie Richardson guided us through the many different types of gemstones, and how facet cutters can get the best out of them. He also [...]
