Blog - The Museum of Bath at Work

27th July 202027th July 2020

Museum Reopening: Saturday, August 1, 2020

PRESS RELEASE As Bath slowly returns to a new normal, people will be welcomed back to the city’s famous Museum of Bath at Work as it reopens its doors with the message to please come back and enjoy a different experience as we work to keep us all safe. The Museum holds a unique local history collection and the reconstructed interiors of a engineering works, ironmongers shop, soft drinks factory, cabinet makers works and stone mining face. It is the Museum of the People of Bath. Following the Government’s announcement that heritage sites can reopen, the Museum of Bath at Work...

21st November 201921st November 2019

NewsBy Stuart Burroughs

In the Dome

The plywood geodesic dome made by members of The Bath Arts Workshop exhibition has now been dismantled after the closure of this highly successful exhibition. Almost 5000 people visited the exhibition during its run. During the time it has been in place we have used the space for every kind of meeting, film show, small workshop and here you can see the Museum’s Management Group holding a meeting in the dome just before it was taken down.

22nd October 201922nd October 2019

EventsBy Stuart Burroughs

Free Automata Workshop

Calling all aspiring artists, make your own Automata Thursday 31stOctober 2019 11am – 3pm See here for more info: FREE AUTOMATA WORKSHOP Recycled Cardboard Automata Workshop Tutors: Rolande Thomas and Andy Hume from BAW History Group Create a moving ghost – automata workshop for Halloween!’ Draw one of the rooms at the museum and the ghost you think might have lived in it and make it make it move really scarily by turning a handle…!!’ Bring a spare shoe box with you if possible….! we will have some available and all other workshop materials will be provided. The activity will be hands on but fun, so...