Haworth Art Gallery and Artist Studios

04/04/2025

One of our fantastic Front of House volunteers has written this post. 🙂

It’s really enjoyable volunteering at Haworth Art Gallery and Museum. The changing exhibitions mean that there is always a new perspective to discuss with visitors, even if they can occasionally be different – the exhibitions not the visitors of course.

It’s lovely to see such a variety of people visiting from all different places and countries, and its lovely to chat and discover things which they have enjoyed and learned.

The staff here are really good to work alongside, and when things are a little quiet they always find little jobs to keep you busy.

Volunteers are an important part of the team, and their contribution is valued!

04/04/2025

FREE Family Art Club at Haworth Art Gallery

This Sunday (6th April 2025), join us between 1pm and 3pm in painting cherry blossom landscapes!

This is a family-friendly event suitable for all aged 2 and above and everyone is welcome - please just turn up

These are self-guided sessions and all equipment will be provided - no booking required.

For more upcoming activities and events in Hyndburn, check out: https://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/events/

03/04/2025

As part of our ongoing project, we are working with Conservation Officer Jenny from Lancashire Conservation Studios (Lancashire County Council ) to condition check every object in our Tiffany glass and social history collections.

Condition checking is a really important part of collections care as the collections at Haworth Art Gallery and Museum belong to the people of Hyndburn and it's our responsibility to preserve them for the next generation of visitors.

This process gives us the chance to check for any flaws or changes to the object, think about its storage environment, and consider how else it might be used (e.g. as a handling and learning resource).

Thank you again to Arts Council England for their ongoing support with – watch this space for updates!

03/04/2025

Exhibition Preview Thursday 3rd April 6-8pm

Anthony Taylor’s exhibition: Sticks and Stones and Other Things.
Inspired by the ancient stone walls of Menorca and by the artist’s own Accrington garden.

Friends of Haworth Art Gallery present an exhibition of paintings selected from our permanent collection of Accrington Art School watercolours.

Exhibitions run from 5th April - 15th June.

02/04/2025

Reminder - Free Bite Size Tour today at 2pm

Joins us for an Introduction to Haworth Art Gallery and Museum.
No need to book, just come to reception a few minutes before 2pm. Tour lasts around 20 mins.
These bite size tours run first Wednesday of each month.

01/04/2025

There are lots of fantastic events on this coming week!
We have a fabulous team of volunteers who help us run many of these events e.g. exhibition hanging to facilitating Family Art Club. Thank you all.

📌Bite size Tour
📅Wednesday 2nd April
⏰2pm
An Introduction to Haworth Art Gallery and Museum. Join us for a FREE bite size tour lasting around 20 minutes. No need to book, just come to reception a few minutes before 2pm.

📌Exhibition Preview
📅Thursday 3rd April
⏰6 - 8pm
Anthony Taylor’s exhibition: Sticks and Stones and Other Things.
Friends of Haworth Art Gallery present an exhibition of paintings selected from our permanent collection of Accrington Art School watercolours.

📌Exhibition Opens
📅Saturday 5th April
⏰12 noon
Anthony Taylor’s exhibition: Sticks and Stones and Other Things.
Friends of Haworth Art Gallery present an exhibition of paintings selected from our permanent collection of Accrington Art School watercolours.

📌FREE Family Art Club
📅Sunday 6th April
⏰1pm – 3pm
Paint a cherry blossom landscape.
All equipment is provided and no booking is required.
Children must be supervised at all times.

📌Haworth Artists' Studios Open Studios
📅Sunday 6th April
⏰12 - 4pm
Open Studios are a great opportunity to meet artists in their studios, talk about their practices, and buy their work directly from them. Our Arts and Crafts Stables and Motor House is home to artists who make a range of arts and crafts from painting to ceramics, printing to stained glass and textiles to jewellery.

30/03/2025

For all the mothers, parents and caregivers today we are celebrating all types of families 🌷

Families come in all shapes and sizes – some by choice, some by circumstance, with all as important as each other. We remain mindful though that Mother’s Day can for a variety of reasons, be a challenging day for some.

The Haworth’s were a close family and brother and sister, William and Anne, shared their home with Anne’s companion Ellen Priestly and hired staff from around the country. It was a house filled with life, music and art. Both Anne and William were very caring, kind and considerate towards their staff, who they treated like their own family.

The essence of Mother’s Day is about universal themes of love, connection and appreciation.

30/03/2025

We will be closing the shop at 3:30pm today, due to end of year stock take.

The gallery will still be open till 4:30pm with last entry at 4:00pm.

Thank you for understanding.

29/03/2025

Have you spotted something new at Haworth Art Gallery and Museum?

Our Collections Team have pulled 16 Tiffany glass tiles from one of our back of house stores to create a new display in the Billiard Room cabinets!
These tiles are fantastic for revealing small details about the manufacturing process behind tile production – from the shape of the turtleback tiles showing how the molten glass would have been dropped into the tile moulds, to the untrimmed glass surrounding the edges of certain tiles that show the final stages before a tile is complete.
We would love to hear which tile is your favourite!

28/03/2025

Thank you to our visitors who joined us for a behind-the-scenes tour of the stores today - hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
We love to share the work we do on collections with you and we are striving to make the collections as accessible to the community as we can.
Keep your eyes peeled for the next tour.

27/03/2025

Haworth Art Gallery and Museum with The Hollins, Youth Panel have had a great first few weeks working on our Arts Council England-funded project.

The Youth Panel aims to expose students to a whole host of creative career industries, whilst inviting them to share their unique perspectives on Haworth Art Gallery and its collections.

The past three weeks have seen the students getting to know each other, how the Gallery fits into their ideas about the local area and their identity, and familiarising themselves with what to expect over the next 18 months!

Thank you to all the students for their enthusiasm so far & to Arts Council England for their support with the project.

26/03/2025

It’s not all black and white you know, the Queens Gambit is upon you. The international game is among us at Haworth Art Gallery and Museum. Now that the weather is getting brighter and dryer come and have a game of the ‘Game of Kings’ on our picnic tables in front of the gallery, and see if you’re the next Grandmaster! Check it out mate!

Please ask at the reception desk for a bag of pieces. 👑🐴

26/03/2025

Upcoming temporary exhibitions 🎨🖼🖌

Our next exhibitions will run from 5th April - 15th June.
Exhibition Preview Thursday 3rd April, 6 – 8pm.

The Morning Room and Drawing Room will have Anthony Taylor’s exhibition: Sticks and Stones and Other Things.

Inspired by the ancient stone walls of Menorca and by the artist’s own Accrington garden.
Anthony supposes he could be classified as expressive in nature. He is a figurative/landscape painter and takes inspiration from his own encounters with the landscape or events that have moved or interested him. The paintings 'Sticks and Stones and Other Things' represent Anthony’s interest in the ancient stone walls of Menorca which he compared to the crumbling sandstone walls decorating the moors behind Accrington. The 'Other Things' in the exhibition are points of interest from his own small garden, such as a recently pruned hedge.

Along the upstairs corridor the Friends of Haworth Art Gallery present an exhibition of paintings selected from our permanent collection of Accrington Art School watercolours.

25/03/2025

Stories from the Stores
Friday 28th March 1:30pm

Join our curator Alison for a fascinating behind the scenes tour of the stores.
Booking is essential as there are limited places.
Please book via telephone on 01254 233782 during opening hours.

25/03/2025

23/03/2025

We are thrilled that our painting, Father and Son by Accrington artist Leslie Duxbury is on display at Two Temple Place in London as part of the Lives Less Ordinary: Working Class Britain Re-seen exhibition.
This fabulous free entry exhibition is well worth a visit if you find yourself in London before 20th April!

22/03/2025

We are very excited to have had the whole of the Tiffany collection professionally photographed this week. The pictures will be used for a range of different purposes including marketing and promotional activities.
We thank all our visitors over the week for your understanding whilst this has been occurring.

Simon Bruntnell Photography

22/03/2025

We’re at Haworth Art Gallery and Artist Studios today, 1pm - 3pm. See you there! (There will be chocolate Hobnobs and flapjacks if that’s important information to anyone!)