Summer opening times at Hall i’ th’ Wood Museum

Simple Beginnings: The Story of Evolution

13th June to 7th November 2009 @ Bolton Museum
In this exhibition you will be able to find out about the historical background to Darwin’s theory, and the time in which it was written. It will also show how the theory was received here in Bolton, as well as on the wider world stage.

‘Escape to the Country’: Picturesque Landscapes from the Collection

16 May to 25 July 2009 @ Bolton Museum
An exhibition of 18th and 19th century Romantic watercolour artists, including British artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, JMW Turner, William Turner, and John Roberts Cozens.

Sports and Games in Worktown exhibition

21st February to beg August 2009 @ Bolton Museum
An exhibition showing Humphrey Spender’s fascinating observational photographs of sports and games in Bolton during the late 1930s.

Humphrey Spender's Worktown photographs

See Bolton, the town and its people, as it was photographed by Humphrey Spender for the Mass Observation project. A fascinating social document of pre-war Lancashire life.

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