Learning & Creativity
A range of exciting creative workshops for all ages, delivered by experienced Artist Educators.
Our learning programme is inspired by:
- our collection
- our ever-changing exhibition programme (both contemporary and historical)
- our setting within Sydney Gardens once a Georgian Pleasure Garden of great fame!
As a Museum of Art all our workshops combine exploring the museum galleries with ‘hands-on’ creative making. Our focus is on learning through curiosity and creativity!
Events

Sunday afternoons
Second Sunday of the month
2- 4pm | £12.50 per ticket (price includes free museum entry to collection galleries)
Cost: £12.50
Concession: £7 - Art Fund, NUS Card (Full time student), 18-25 yr olds
Pathways to Wellbeing participants: £5
Art for All! 28 places available
Fast paced and fun, Bath Portrait Club welcomes everyone (not just artists!) to have a go at drawing a face, with sitters changing every 15 minutes.
Based in our beautiful Brownsword Gallery, all materials provided
Giuliana Terran is a Bristol-based artist and teacher fascinated by the human form, @bath_portrait_club
Have questions about this event? Please email a.highley@holburne.org
Refunds are available upon request up to 14 days before the event.
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Scent and Sensibility: Exploring colonial legacies through aromatherapy
Thursday 9 October | 10.30am - 1pm | £25pp*
Explore the hidden legacies of colonialism in the museum’s collection - through scent. In this unique sensory workshop, aromatherapist and botanical perfumer Lindsay Woodman invites you to engage with these histories in an embodied way. Drawing on her creative response to our collection, Lindsay will guide you in making your own therapeutic pulse-point perfume to take home.
* A £2 booking fee is added to all tickets, ticket includes museum entry and all materials.
Refunds are available up to 14 days before this event, they are not available after this time.
For any queries relating to this event please contact education@holburne.org
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Book-binding workshop - Austen's decor
Thursday 6 November | 10am - 4pm | £85*
In this workshop, Bookbinder Kate Holland will guide you step-by-step in the traditional craft of bookbinding. The covers will be made using wallpaper faithfully reproduced from Jane Austen's house in Hampshire. You will come away with two books that you have made from scratch; a single-section soft cover notebook and a multi-section hardcover sketchbook, as well as all the basic bookbinding skills that will enable you to continue and elaborate at home.
Within the £85, all materials and tools will be provided. Some of the tools are sharp!
Book nowA range of exciting creative workshops for all ages, delivered by experienced Artist Educators.
Our learning programme is inspired by:
- our collection
- our ever-changing exhibition programme (both contemporary and historical)
- our setting within Sydney Gardens once a Georgian Pleasure Garden of great fame!
As a Museum of Art all our workshops combine exploring the museum galleries with ‘hands-on’ creative making. Our focus is on learning through curiosity and creativity!