If you could run our museum, what would it look like? Come and take part in our ‘My MoBA’ activity running throughout the Easter holidays. Design your ideal MoBA on our activity sheets, and get creative in our mini museum play area! Running from 30 March – 13 April, Weds-Sat during opening hours. No booking...
Reimagine your rubbish with our cityscape drawing activity this half term! Get inspired by items destined for the recycling box and use them to create shapes and forms for a weird and wonderful cityscape. Drop-in activity, free with museum entry 10am-3.30pm 25th May – 2nd June. Weds to Sat only.
Join us this June for the Great Big Green Week 2024 - the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. This year we are bringing you an exciting programme linked to our ‘Future proof’ theme across all of our museum sites which highlights how we can build resilience...
Design like an architect with our drop-in straw model making activity. Have a go at the building challenges or get creative and make some wild and wonderful structures! Drop-in from 24 July – 1 September, free with museum entry.
Venue: Museum of Bath Architecture Date: Tuesday 3 September. Doors at 5.30pm for 6pm start Book: https://bath-preservation-trust.merlintickets.co.uk/product/EVE-00200 The optimisation of nature in building, with Camille Chevrier and Stephen Melville, Format Engineers Offering a technical perspective on biophilic design. This talk will discuss how form and materiality can be exploited to go beyond the conventional approach...
Venue: Museum of Bath Architecture Date: Monday 9th September. 10am-12pm Book tickets This interactive workshop dives into how Bath was transformed in the eighteenth century from a sleepy town to a fashionable Georgian city. In this 2-hour session, children will: Learn about Georgian architecture and classical influences Explore the museum with a trail sheet Explore...
The architecture of Bath is world renowned for its beauty. In this workshop you will work with artist Duncan Harper to produce your own drawing of some of Bath’s buildings, working in the inspirational setting of the Museum of Bath Architecture. You’ll be able to start by making exploratory drawings (outside, or inside if the...
Venue: Museum of Bath Architecture Date: Tuesday 10th September. Doors at 5.30pm for 6pm start Book: https://bath-preservation-trust.merlintickets.co.uk/product/EVE-00201 Andrew’s talk explores the identity value of a ‘Biophilic City’ in ways that attract tourists and support stronger local communities. And how global cities such as Singapore, Bangalore and Paris and Monaco, manage and utilise ‘green and blue’...
Old medieval ruin or fake gothic new build? Following on from the success of our previous ‘Building Pemberley’ talk, join Dr Amy Frost to explore Jane Austen’s Gothic architecture (real and imagined), as the audience become the architects of Northanger Abbey. Bring your drawing skills with you – no matter how dodgy! As the talk...
Venue: Museum of Bath Architecture Date: Wednesday 18th September. Doors at 5.30pm for 6pm start Book: https://bath-preservation-trust.merlintickets.co.uk/product/EVE-00202 With a vast portfolio of dynamic and considerate projects to reflect and draw learning from, Johanna Gibbons will share her remarkable work which includes the restoration and revitalisation of a city estate landscape, the creation of a community...
