‘Within Nature – East and West’
Our newest exhibition at Cliffe Castle has just opened to visitors. In this blog Lowri, our Collections curator gives us an insight into the exhibition.
Keighley Art Club Centenary Celebration: Bradford District Museums and Galleries’ Art Collection
In 2023, Dr Lauren Padgett, Assistant Curator of Collections, worked closely with Keighley Art Club to co-curate a temporary exhibition celebrating the Club’s history, spanning over 100 years. The Centenary Celebration was launched in September 2023 and runs until Sunday 14 January 2024.
Guest Blog: Searching for Samuel Palmer by Dr David Mullin
As part of ongoing research into the life of the artist Samuel Palmer, Dr David Mullin recently contacted Bradford District Museums and Galleries (BDMG) about a painting in their collection.
Casting Around the Stores
In this blog Dr Rebecca Wade, Collections Assistant (Cultural Recovery Fund), rediscovers the identities of an intriguing set of plaster casts in our collection taken from some of the most famous sculptures in the history of Western art. “Oh we’ve got some of those,” is perhaps the most exciting sentence you can hear when you […]
Alke Schmidt: Wonder and Dread
Sonja Kielty, our exhibitions curator agreed to write a blog post for us to give an insight in the process that lead to the recently opened Alke Schmidt: Wonder & Dread exhibition. She writes: Alke first contacted BMG following her selection of paintings in Salts Mill for Saltaire Inspired in 2015. I absolutely loved her work […]
