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LEARNING AT THE BOWES MUSEUM
As well as providing family, children and young people's activities, our education team offers activities across the board from delivering specialist CPD for teachers, to holding workshops in house and outreach in schools as well as working in the community.
TALKS
Discover the hidden secrets of the Museum’s objects and more.
SCHOOLS
Our team bring the primary and secondary curriculums to life.
FAMILIES
No-one will be bored at The Bowes Museum. Find out what's on for families here.
ARTIST MAKERS
Meet the artists who deliver wonderful workshops at the Museum
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Meet the makers who are shaping the world of art and design
UNHEARD VOICES
The Bowes Museum, Novus learners and tutors from HMP Deerbolt and artist practitioner Jonah York, delve into themes of kith and kinship.
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A Building of Love
In the mid 19th century John Bowes was a dapper gentleman in France with considerable wealth, owning a prime location Parisian theatre, Theatre de Varietes. Although criticised by many during his management at the theatre, I would like to think this is possible the beginning of the best period of John’s life as he falls
Mice in a museum?
The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle has many unusual items that are not found in other museums in Britain, let alone in a market town in the north of England. The circumstances of The Bowes Museum being formed in Paris by ex-patriate collector John Bowes and his French wife Joséphine are fairly well-known and explain
The Horse Whisperer
Today, the 19th of June, is John Bowes’ birthday, He was born 210 years ago in London, where his father, John Bowes, the 10th Earl of Strathmore, had taken his mother Mary Milner, presumably for privacy because they were not yet married. However, they soon returned home to Streatlam Castle, where John was brought up and
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