Berwick Museum & Art Gallery is open again for the 2019 season (until 30th September) with its standard opening times: Wednesday-Sunday, 11.00am – 4.00pm.  In addition, it will be open on Bank Holiday Mondays, and every day during the English school holidays (same hours).

Free admission for members of FBDMA.

For other details, see the Museums Northumberland website.

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Berwick Museum & Art Gallery will be playing host to a special visitor on the afternoon of Saturday 4th May 2019 at 2.00pm – the historical novelist Patricia Finney will be launching her new book “A Suspicion of Silver” at the venue. The book is the latest in a series of novels based on the adventures of the Elizabethan nobleman Sir Robert Carey.

Free admission. In Berwick Museum & Art Gallery, The Clock Block, Berwick Barracks, TD15 1DG.  Tel: 01289 309 538.

“Anyone who has read any history at all about the reign of Queen Elizabeth I has...

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A number of consultation meetings are being held during October 2018 as part of the “Union Chain Bridge: Crossing Borders, Inspiring Communities” project which aims to link the conservation of this important bridge to an extensive programme of activities and events around it.

In particular, for those with an interest in the local history, archaeology and heritage of the bridge, there is a meeting on Tuesday 23rd October, 2:00-4:00pm, at Berwick Museum and Art Gallery: come along to find out what is being planned and to contribute thoughts and ideas.

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On Thursday 28 June 2018, Graham Taylor will give a talk, “Fragments”, on his work, created for the Peregrini Project and currently on display in the Museum. Ceramic vessels created by Graham Taylor were inspired by and depict elements of the natural and cultural heritage of Holy Island and the adjacent coast.

Starts at 7pm, at Berwick Museum and Art Gallery.

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Berwick Museum & Art Gallery opens for the new season on Wednesday 28th March 2018, with two new temporary exhibitions on display:

Entitled “Fragments”, the first exhibition is the final round up of the arts & culture strand of the Peregrini Project. It is displaying pots by Graham Taylor of Rothbury, who ran several pottery workshops at the museum last season, and will provide community engagement work at the museum this season. There is also a display of photographs by Jose Snook and poetry by Katrina Porteous.

Accompanying and complementing the Fragments exhibition, the Museum  stages a small seaside...

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