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Exploring the next exhibition at Cliffe Castle Museum
15 September 2025
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Exploring the next exhibition at Cliffe Castle Museum
Blog by Erin, currently studying for an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies.
The Ice Age Art now exhibition has been an amazing process, working with the British Museum team and Bradford 2025 to bring national collections up to the district and link them to Bradford’s own history & heritage.
As we look forward to the opening of Ice Age Art Now at Cliffe Castle Museum, British Museum curator Jill Cook introduces the themes of the exhibition.
We came across a fascinating set of travel diaries by Mrs Smith, a relative of the Butterfields – let us use her own words to tell the story
James Steward, our Museums ＆ Galleries Manager, agreed to write our latest blog – looking back at 2024 and forward to 2025!
Dale Keeton, our talented conservator, who made it all look spectacular and Ernest, our wonderful volunteer provide some additional insights into the exhibition
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.
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.
One of our wonderful volunteers, Ian, has been busy reading and transcribing elements of the Butterfield archive – most recently he’s been piecing together some of the stories that the receipts and other documents can tell us. Here’s a timely one for the festive period…