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A musical placement at Cliffe Castle: Erin
Blog by Erin, currently studying for an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies.
18 August 2025
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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.
examining the long-standing links that the building, the family and the collections have to music,
This latest blog from our volunteer Ian looks at the Butterfield Brothers as business men – which isn’t a story we’ve told before.
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.
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…
Dale, our collections officer gives an insight into the preparation for this exhibition
Did you know that rocks make musical sounds and can be made into instruments?
Assistant Curator of Collections Dr Lauren Padgett has researched Bradford District Museums and Galleries’ history for a new display at Bradford Industrial Museum and tells us more about it here.