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Feb
15
Saturday 15th February- Talks, activities, and archives
February 12, 2025Events
Come join us at the Museum for an exciting day of talks, activities, and archives. Free for Discovery card holders and BANES residents. Discover the stories of peoples working lives from the 1800’s to present […]

Museum Looking for your Help
February 8, 2025News
As part of our “Museum Making” project, we’re expanding our focus to tell the bigger story of Bath—a city full of history, creativity, and innovation. We’re diving into the diverse working lives of Bath’s residents, […]

Mar
12
Film: The Personal History of David Copperfield
February 7, 2025Events
Bath Art Collective, Curious Minds Festival event at Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath BA1 2RH Wednesday 12th March Doors Open 6 p.m. Film at 7.00 p.m. Tickets £12 and further information from […]

Feb
16
Film: Saving the Bowler Collection 1972
February 7, 2025Events
2 p.m. Sunday 16th February Museum of Bath at Work Rare showing of a short film made to chronicle the saving of the Bowler Collection which would form the basis of the Museum of Bath at […]

Louie Stride: Memoirs of a Street Urchin
February 1, 2025Archive Tales
“I was confronted by my childhood” In its first years in the early 1980s, the Museum was advertising for a volunteer tea lady. Louie, who was in her seventies, responded to the advert; recently widowed, […]

Feb 1 – Jun 29
Knowing Your Place: Bath through Community Alphabets
January 30, 2025Events
Knowing Your Place: Bath through Community Alphabets This exhibition, first exhibited in 2015, is being re-displayed in an updated and amended display. The use of the community alphabets to ‘capture’ information on notable features in […]

Mar
25
An Evening of Historic Images, Sound and Music by Adrian Betts
January 24, 2025Events
7.30pm Tuesday 25th March Admission £8.00 card or cash on the door Following the success of an evening of film and music, presented by local photographer Adrian Betts in the Autumn of last year he […]

Mar
22
Friends and Volunteers of the Museum AGM
January 22, 2025Events
Friends & Volunteers AGM 2.30pm Saturday 22nd March This years meeting will be held at the museum and refreshments available from 2pm. View agenda here. After the short business section, there will be a panel […]

Museum Making Project Coordinator Ellie Bowes joins the team
January 22, 2025News
“Hello Everyone, I’m Ellie Bowes, and I’m thrilled to be stepping into the role of Project Coordinator for the ‘Museum Making’ project at the Museum of Bath at Work! With 12 years of experience in […]

From Sheppey to Bath
January 18, 2025Archive Tales
‘Report to Paddington Station in the morning’ Admiralty clerks posted to Bath in 1939 as possibility of war increases This was the instruction received by hundreds of Admiralty workers in September 1939. One of these […]

Jun 1 – Nov 30
Tennis in Bath: Work and Play
January 1, 2025Events
A major exhibition, Tennis: Work and Play, is planned from June to November. It covers Bath’s rich history of racket games, from Real Tennis in the 18th century, through early lawn tennis of the 1880s, […]

History of the Museum Building and Use: 7. Post War and the Sack of Bath
December 27, 2024Archive Tales
7 Post War and the Sack of Bath

History of the Museum Building and Use: 6. Lotor Washing Powder
December 27, 2024Archive Tales
6 Lotor Washing Powder


History of the Museum Building and Use: 4. Girls’ School, rowdy political meetings, and The Hereford Chicken
December 2, 2024Archive Tales
4 A Girls’ School, rowdy political meetings, and The Hereford Chicken

BBC Antiques Road Trip visit museum
November 26, 2024News
UPDATE: The episode will be broadcast on BBC1 16.30pm Thursday 28th November 2024 or can be viewed now on BBC iPlayer by following this link BBC Antiques Road Trip team visited the museum in May with […]

History of the Museum Building and Use: 3. Boxing, Hot-Air Balloon, and Circus
November 10, 2024Archive Tales
In the first part of this blog, we looked at how the Tennis-court came to be built, and reached the red-letter day 25th September 1777 when it opened to the public for the first time. So how did it go?

History of the Museum Building and Use: 2. The Tennis Court
November 2, 2024Archive Tales
In the first part of this blog, we looked at how the Tennis-court came to be built, and reached the red-letter day 25th September 1777 when it opened to the public for the first time. So how did it go?

History of the Museum Building and Use: 1. The Tennis Court
October 14, 2024Archive Tales
The first of a series of articles tracing the fascinating and varied history of the building the Museum now occupies. 1. The Tennis Court
It is the 12th of February 1763 and a letter is published in the Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette:
“Tennis is an excellent Exercise. There is scarce a little village in France without a Tennis-Court. Would not the Company here employ one with great Advantage to the Proprietor?”

Fifty not out! Adopt-a-Bottle Fundraising Scheme
September 14, 2024News
Maisie from Aberlady in Scotland is the fiftieth person to have adopted a bottle, in memory of her baby brother, as part of the Museum's Adopt-a-Bottle scheme.

Museum awarded significant grant to work with the community
September 2, 2024News
We are excited to announce the Museum has been awarded a £241,918 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to work with the local community on ‘Museum Making’.

Bath Young Inventors Helping Save the Planet
September 2, 2024News
This year's winner of the Cross Trophy for the best submission to the Bath Young Inventor of the Year Competition was won by Anna H from Monkton Combe school.

Costing the Earth Exhibition Welcomes 4000th visitor
August 29, 2024News
Costing the Earth Exhibition Welcomes 4000th visitor The award winning Costing the Earth exhibition on the changing natural environment, which has been on show since May 2024 has just welcomed its 4000th visitor. The exhibition […]

Court on Canvas: International Tennis Art
August 18, 2024News
Court on canvas: International tennis art. Review of lecture given by Dr Ann Sumner on the art that has been inspired by the game of lawn tennis since it became popular in the 1880s. Reviewed by Rosy Drohan

Stothert & Pitt Sea Plane Winch on display
August 15, 2024News
After a huge amount of work of restoring, renovating, and positioning by volunteers, a winch made by Stothert & Pitt of Bath has been installed and officially unveiled outside the Museum of Bath.

The Cryséde shop, 2 Quiet Street
August 7, 2024Archive Tales
“Cryséde is Synonymous to Beauty” Recently I went to an exhibition at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro about the history of Cryséde textiles, and was fascinated to learn that one of their first dress […]

The Bathford Papermill project
August 1, 2024News
The Bathford Papermill project is concerned with assessing the museum’s extensive archive of documents relating to the papermill with a particular focus on the First World War. The primary aim of the project is to […]

Cross Manufacturing- archive project
August 1, 2024News
The museum is working with Cross Manufacturing on a project to find a solution for the company’s archiving needs. This will involve digitising the 1000+ historic engineering drawings that are currently held in Cross’ archives. Dating back to the […]

Costing the Earth-a personal reflection
August 1, 2024Archive Tales
The current exhibition at the Museum made me reflect on the changes I’ve seen since arriving at Bath Spa Station for an interview at the new Bath University of Technology in 1967. The buildings were […]

Upcoming Events
July 25, 2024News
Young Inventors and War’s End Lectures The museum is staging some summer lectures which you may like to attend. To launch the Museum’s partnership with the 44AD Gallery on the Bath Young Inventor of the […]

Costing The Earth: Bath’s Changing Environment
July 25, 2024News
Have we given Heaven Away? New exhibition on the Environment Opens! The museum’s major annual exhibition of the year ‘Costing the Earth: Bath’s Industrialised Environment’ opened to a packed museum at its official opening on […]

All A-board! Bath Green Park Station Platform Board Displayed in the Museum.
July 22, 2024News
One of only two station sign boards, which stood on the platform of the former Midland Railway and Somerset and Dorset railway terminus at Green Park, has been donated to the Museum. The sign was […]