Special Exhibitions

The Museum has a small Art gallery which we use for special exhibitions. These change more often than our permanent exhibits, allowing us to focus on the work of artists who are of particular local importance, or to highlight and complement particular aspects of the permanent collection.

Current exhibition: Rural life in and around Blandford.

Our new exhibition showcases some of the work in the Museum’s art collection, with a focus on Blandford’s rural setting. The art includes a print from an etching of the layout of the  Bryanston stately house and grounds centuries earlier; an oil painting of far reaching views of Ibberton from Bulbarrow; and paintings featuring Blandford Bridge and Blandford St Mary Church at the end of the 19th Century.

We hope these images lead to conversations about how the rural setting has evolved. Perhaps you will recognise somewhere that is familiar to you, and do let us know if you have any information about the artists or have stories to share about the places depicted. The exhibition will be on display until the end of December.

Rural life 1

Previous exhibitions:

An exhibition of work by artists Nick Andrew and Tanya Hinton for their books, The Winter Visitor and The Spire. This ties in with their talk at the Museum on Saturday 16th November as part of the Blandford Literary Festival. To find out more about Nick and Tanya’s work, please visit their website www.nickandrew.co.uk
We are delighted to present a new exhibition on the work of Alfred Stevens, often called The Michealangelo of Great Britain. An outstanding artist, designer and sculptor from Blandford whose remarkable work can be found in the British Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, as well as our museum
This exhibition looks at the history of shopping and Blandford’s Market Place, using pictures and objects from the Museum’s own collection. We hope that the images will trigger reminiscences and conversations about the changes that have taken place in this Dorset market town over the last 300 years.