Forthcoming Events

This event has been cancelled as Compton Verney continues to be closed to the public.The curators are currently negotiating an extension to the planned Cranach exhibition and we hope to be able to re-schedule this...   (Read more)

We are still taking bookings for this event.  However, due to the continuing uncertainty caused by the coronavirus, we suggest you make a provisional booking on-line, without completing payment at this time.  We will contact you...   (Read more)

Join other Friends for an entertaining visit to Bristol starting with two vibrant exhibitions at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and culminating in a coach tour, showing us significant churches, buildings, structures, street art...   (Read more)

The folk song and dance revival in England in the early years of the Twentieth Century involved many people, some better known than others.  Emily Gimson, the wife of the Arts and Crafts designer and...   (Read more)

Cheltenham was one of the most successful and fastest-growing leisure resorts of the late Georgian era.  This talk will discuss its development, and that of other spa towns, as they responded to changing patterns of...   (Read more)

Gloucestershire has an unusual concentration of war memorials by Arts and Crafts Movement designers, ranging from memorial crosses, stained glass windows and more practical memorials like water troughs.  Discover the stories, the trials and the...   (Read more)

Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things is a National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition that should be coming to The Wilson between November 2020 and February 2021.* Currently at the NPG itself, it has been getting very...   (Read more)

Image: Copper repousse charger made by Arthur Cameron for the Guild of Handicraft, 1892. The Cheltenham Trust / Cheltenham Borough Council Arthur Cameron was one of the liveliest craftsmen working for C R Ashbee’s Guild...   (Read more)