DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS THIS GROUP IS NOT CURRENTLY MEETING IN PERSON.
We are meeting occasionally on zoom to chat and catch up socially. The next chat will be in March when we hope to have a quiz with a cultural bias; the date and zoom link will be posted here.
Museums and Galleries Group brings together members who are interested in visiting art exhibitions, museum displays and related events as a small group.
We meet quarterly to plan visits for the following 3 months. This is held on the 3rd Friday of every 3rd month - January, April, July and October in Southwell Library at 12 noon and generally lasts about one hour. Membership of the Group is currently £1 per annum to cover room hire costs. New members are very welcome. Members can put forward suggestions for forthcoming visits and if there is support for them we gauge the best date and means of transport. After the meeting members are emailed a calendar of events, containing details of these and the name and details of the coordinator for booking each one. It is up to members to select things of interest to them and book and pay any money due upfront to the relevant person. Attendance at the planning meetings is not compulsory, but it is hoped that people will endeavour to attend and be proactive in organising visits.
We aim to run at least one visit per month during the year.
We are meeting occasionally on zoom to chat and catch up socially. The next chat will be in March when we hope to have a quiz with a cultural bias; the date and zoom link will be posted here.
Museums and Galleries Group brings together members who are interested in visiting art exhibitions, museum displays and related events as a small group.
We meet quarterly to plan visits for the following 3 months. This is held on the 3rd Friday of every 3rd month - January, April, July and October in Southwell Library at 12 noon and generally lasts about one hour. Membership of the Group is currently £1 per annum to cover room hire costs. New members are very welcome. Members can put forward suggestions for forthcoming visits and if there is support for them we gauge the best date and means of transport. After the meeting members are emailed a calendar of events, containing details of these and the name and details of the coordinator for booking each one. It is up to members to select things of interest to them and book and pay any money due upfront to the relevant person. Attendance at the planning meetings is not compulsory, but it is hoped that people will endeavour to attend and be proactive in organising visits.
We aim to run at least one visit per month during the year.
Museums/Galleries Group News 2019/2020
2019 saw us out and about visiting exhibitions and places of interest, including the the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, the Richard 111 museum in Leicester and a Bondage and Liberation exhibition in Lincoln Castle. Here are a few photos from those:
A room in the Bronte Parsonage at Haworth
2019 saw us out and about visiting exhibitions and places of interest, including the the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, the Richard 111 museum in Leicester and a Bondage and Liberation exhibition in Lincoln Castle. Here are a few photos from those:
A room in the Bronte Parsonage at Haworth
Members inspecting the Richard 111 statue outside the museum in Leicester
Members viewing Vivienne Westwood creations at Lincoln Castle exhibition
Future Visits in 2020
Our group goes from strength to strength and we have arranged an exciting
programme of visits from February 2020 onwards.
Our group goes from strength to strength and we have arranged an exciting
programme of visits from February 2020 onwards.
- February sees two visits, one to The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester for a tour of the Cézanne exhibition, and one more locally to the Djanogly Gallery at Lakeside, Nottingham to the Ivon Hitchens “Space through Colour” exhibition
- March sees us returning to the Compton Verney Gallery near Warwick for 2 exhibitions on Cranach : the Innovator and Fabric: Touch and Identity
- In April we shall be visiting the Derby Museums’ new V21 Artspace Objects of Love, Hope and Fear: a world collection of 1,400 objects
- In May a small group will be travelling to the National Gallery in London to see exhibitions by Titian and Nicolas Maes.
- June offers us a major exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre near Norwich - Art Deco by The Sea and Art Nouveau. This is a favourite venue for our members with a pleasant ambiance, which we look forward to revisiting.
Visits undertaken in 2018
- In January we had a trip to the Sainsbury Centre at UEA Norwich to visit the Radical Russia exhibition and see the exquisite Fabergé display. Some of the pieces were truly breathtaking
- Weds 14th Feb Visit to Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside, “Vikings” exhibition -by public transport
- Weds 21st March Newstead Abbey tour & “Peacocks: The Pomp of Power” exhibition - by car share.
- Weds 18th/Thursday 19th April. This saw our first overnight visit to Liverpool to see the big exhibition at the World Museum “China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors.” A wonderful experience which we combined with a visit to the Walker Gallery to take in the vast collections there from different centuries plus, between us, the vast array of attractions Liverpool has to offer: Tate Gallery, Maritime Museum, Slavery Museum, Beatles extravaganza, Albert Dock etc. We used the hop on hop off bus to get around conveniently.
Terracotta Warriors
An exhibit by the Singh Twins at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool
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View across Liverpool (above) Catholic Cathedral "Paddy's Wigwam"(below) The Liver Building (above)
- Tues 8th May Visit to Sleaford to Visit Navigation House, The Hub and Coggleshall Watermill - by car share.
- Friday 8th June: Portland Miniatures at the Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Group tour of the new miniature portraits collection and viewing of the Glass Exhibition there
- Thursday 21st June: visit to a private ceramics collection in Hoveringham
- Friday 20th July: Quarterly planning meeting in the Library at 12 noon
Think you might be interested in joining this group?
1. If you are not already a member of Southwell U3A but are interested in finding out more about this group and/or would like to attend one of their group meetings please click on the Contact Us link and let us know. We will arrange for the Group Leader to get in touch with you as soon as possible.
2. If you are already a member of Southwell U3A and are interested in joining this group you can contact the Group Leader directly. Their details are in the Group Leaders page in our Membership Area of the website. As a Southwell U3A member you will have received the password for the Members Area pages in Newsline. If you have forgotten the password please use the Contact Us facility on this website to request the password