The Holburne Museum in Bath, displays a fascinating art collection in a grand building at the end of Great Pulteney Street. The new garden café in the glass extension is overlooking Sydney Gardens.
Welcome to The Holburne Museum.
We are open FREE of charge Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday (and Bank Holidays) 11am to 5pm.
The Garden Café in our stunning new glass development is open during Museum opening hours, last orders taken at 4.30pm (or half an hour before the Museum closes)
At The Holburne Museum in Bath we believe enjoyment of the arts changes people's lives. Our aim is to encourage this enjoyment by:
* caring for, understanding, enhancing, displaying and interpreting our collection, our building and our unrivalled site
* reaching as wide a public as possible by providing a welcoming, intimate experience of the arts for people of all ages and abilities
* staging exhibitions, events and educational activities of outstanding quality and imagination
* being confident, adventurous and innovative
We offer lots of free hands on activities in the Museum, including an animal trail, as well as a host of creative workshops that can be booked in advance. See our family What’s On.
We have a remarkably varied collection of fine and decorative art, mainly dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, and including Sir William's notable Old Master paintings, Italian maiolica and bronzes, gems, European and English porcelain and silver from England and the Continent The Collection.