Friends AGM 2019
The annual AGM is one of those times when one is grateful that anyone has turned up, it's not the easiest event to attract an audience to attend. Bearing this in mind, we do work hard to make it interesting…
Lunchtime Talk – Touring the Swindon Collection, 60 Years On
Curator Sophie Cummings gave another really insightful lunchtime talk on Friday 18 October on this wonderful exhibition which reminds us how truly fabulous some of the paintings are in the collection!In 1959, the Swindon Collection of Modern British art began…
Stone Age to Corinium (Thursday 26 September 2019)
For our September talk, we were pleased to welcome Amanda Hart, director of the Corinium Museum. They are our nearest museum outside Swindon, and have recently been successful in their Heritage Lottery Fund application, so it was very interesting to hear more about…
Ken White: Railways & Landscapes – Private View (Tuesday 17 September 2019)
The Friends' committee organised a Private View for Ken White's exhibition currently in the gallery at the museum on the first day of the exhibition. There was a fabulous turn out, with around 90 people attending, and canapes provided by The Olive Tree…
Children’s Summer Workshops!
It's been really great that the Friends have been able to sponsor and support the fabulous children's workshops. I've called them summer workshops, but in fact they are holiday workshops, with some during October half term and the Christmas holidays.…
Cutting Edge: Modernist Printmaking at The Dulwich Picture Gallery (Tuesday 9 July 2019)
We visited The Dulwich Picture Gallery for the second time on 9 July to look round the fantastic exhibition of prints made by the Grosvenor School in the 1930s, curated by Gordon Samuel of Osborne Samuel Gallery, who gave us a wonderful…
Acquiring Works for the National Trust (Thursday 27 June 2019)
For our June talk, Emile de Bruijn agreed to come and talk about his work with the National Trust, specifically how decisions are made about how properties owned by the National Trust should be presented to the public. Looking Emile…
Trip to Fresh Air Sculpture Show (Wednesday 26 June 2019)
This biennial sculpture exhibition, first held in 1992 in the extensive gardens and grounds of The Old Rectory at Quenington seemed like a perfect afternoon out for the Friends. The exhibition ran from 16 June until 7 July, and we visited…
Out of the Box: A Talk by David Bent (Thursday 23 May 2019)
Our May talk was by Swindon based David Bent, prompted by the fact that Swindon Museum and Art Gallery were hosting an exhibition of his work.entitled 'Out of the Box'. We had an extremely entertaining evening, no time for snoozing…
Trip to Corsham Court (Tuesday 21 May 2019)
One of our Friends offered to book a very special trip to Corsham Court about three years ago, we waited until it could have a date; not only did involve a tour of the house, but also a talk by Lord Methuen…