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The Bowes Museum

The Bowes Museum

The museum contains paintings by El Greco, Francisco Goya, Canaletto, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher, together with a sizable collection of decorative art, ceramics, textiles, tapestries, clocks and costumes, as well as older items from local history.
Location
Barnard Castle, United Kingdom
Founded in
1892

Current events

Framing fashion, details, exhibition view. Courtesy of The Bowes Museum
Framing fashion
19 Oct 2024 — 2 Mar 2025

Past events

Simone Rocha, ready-to-wear, spring summer 2014, London
Catwalking: Fashion through the Lens of Chris Moore
7 Jul 2018 — 6 Jan 2019
- Tony Ray-Jones, Knights of the Green, Southampton, 1965. Courtesy of National Media Museum collection
Only in England
25 Feb — 5 May 2017
Buonaparte Stuffenjahre, 19th Century, Print © The Bowes Museum
The Allure of Napoleon
28 Jan — 19 Mar 2017
Robert Mapplethorpe, Iggy Pop (1981), Artist Rooms, Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Robert Mapplethorpe
28 Nov 2015 — 24 Apr 2016
Detail of Honesty Skyline by Pauline Burbidge. Photo PB
Pauline Burbidge. Quiltscapes & Quiltline
28 Nov 2015 — 10 Apr 2016
Hugh Miller, Liverpool, detail
New Light
17 Oct 2015 — 7 Feb 2016
Marina Schiano wearing the short evening dress. Haute couture collection Fall-Winter 1970 © The Estate of Jeanloup Sieff
Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal
11 Jul — 25 Oct 2015
Prehistoric People
2 May — 27 Sep 2015
All images: © Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Scarfe: Milk Snatcher, Thatcher Drawings
17 Mar — 7 Jun 2015 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Thierry Mugler, Haute Couture Collection, Spring Summer 1997, © Patrice Stable Studio
Birds of Paradise
25 Oct 2014 — 19 Apr 2015 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
All images © Paul Scott
Paul Scott. Confected, Borrowed and Blue
14 Feb — 12 Apr 2015 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Nicolas de Largilliere, Portrait of Unknown Lady (between 1690 - 1746 ?), Oil on canvas, 138.5 x 106.1 cm, © Julian Opie
Julian Opie: Collected Works
25 Oct 2014 — 15 Feb 2015 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
David Hockney, “Self Portrait”, 1954, Lithograph in five colours, 11 12 x 10 14”, Edition of 5 (approximately), © David Hockney
Hockney, Printmaker
7 Jun — 28 Sep 2014 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
John William Bird, Year of Victory, © courtesy of Durham Miners’ Association.
Shafts of Light
17 May — 21 Sep 2014 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Victorian Childhood
21 Jun — 7 Sep 2014 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Edouard Manet 1832 - 1883, The Execution of Maximilian, about 1867-8, Oil on canvas, 193 x 284 cm, © The National Gallery, London
Edouard Manet
22 Mar — 18 May 2014 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Showroom of Henry Poole in Savile Row, © Henry Poole & Co
Henry Poole & Co
21 Sep 2013 — 11 May 2014 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Gavin Turk
25 Jan — 21 Apr 2014 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
How to Hide a Lion
26 Oct 2013 — 9 Feb 2014 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Image © Laura Ashley Ltd.
Laura Ashley. The Romantic Heroine
21 Sep 2013 — 5 Jan 2014 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Jeremiah Dixon, © Library of Congress
Jeremiah Dixon
26 Apr — 6 Oct 2013 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Image © Diana Winkfield
Material Remains
13 Feb — 8 Sep 2013 at The Bowes Museum, Durham
Tim Walker, Stella Tennant and pink powder cloud, 2007, courtesy of the artist and the Bowes Museum
Tim Walker. Dreamscapes
25 May — 1 Sep 2013 at The Bowes Museum, Durham

The Bowes Museum

54.54209
-1.91553
Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle DL12 8NP United Kingdom
+44 (0)18 33690606
www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk
Opening hours

Daily from 10am to 5pm

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