Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition Programme 2008

The Museum opens a month earlier this year to fit with the

Words by the Water

programme at the Threatre by the Lake

At the Museum

Robert Southey: Keswick's Entire Man of Letters
29th February - 12th April
Curated by Professor Bill Speck

The Face Behind Movemnet
1st - 27th April
A display on contemporary dance

19th April - Musical Stones at Theatre by the Lake

After Thomas West
15th April - 17th May
Photography by Nicci Thomas

In the Eye of the Beholder and Half an Hour's Walk from Here
20th May - 22nd June
Photographs by Anne and Ian Thompson

Paintings by Sundar Walker
24th June - 19th July

Weird and Eccentric Gadgets 1851 - 1951
22nd July - 27th September
by Maurice Collins

Paintings by Richard Cross
2nd - 27th September

Calligraphy and the History of Writing
30th September – 31st October
by Raymond Duckworth


Supplementary displays and special events will take place throughout the season.

All dates were correct at time of going to press

For any further details:

Jamie Barnes
Curatorial Assistant & Museum Manager
(017687) 73263
barnesjc71@hotmail.com





For The Future

These are in the early planning stage

2010Centenary Exhibition of Girl Guiding

2009/2010 “Chasing Sublime Light” – David Tress – to feature the Cumbrian element of journeys he has made in the footsteps of earlier artists.