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Open Art entry gets the popular vote
Local artist Emma-Jade Anderson receives the Visitors' Choice prize for the 2009 Open Art exhibition sponsored by Sainsbury's.
All change at Bolton Museum for local history gallery
The current local history gallery (including the permanent Humphrey Spender Worktown gallery) at Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive will close from January 4 2010. A new gallery will open in November 2010.
Programme of free lunch time talks for 2010
Using Bolton’s rich museum, archive and library collections as inspiration, why not hear a lunchtime story about anything from bumblebees to precious books!
Visitor Volunteers are taking the museum out into the community
Are you a club, community or school in Bolton? Find out how our Visitor Volunteers can bring the museum to your door.
First World War and Second World War Heroes to be Honoured at Bolton Town Hall
Three war memorials in the collections of Bolton Museum and Archive Service have recently been put on display at Bolton Town Hall.
David Dimbleby looks at Bolton's art collection for new BBC programme
David Dimbleby, the well known chairman of the BBC television programme Question Time, recently paid a visit to our art stores.
Open Art 2009 entry details
The entry form for the exhibition is available to download now. Submission dates are 10 to 4.30pm on the 13 and 14 November
Summer Monsters take over Bolton Museum
In late July, Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive were pleased to present Monster Challenge 2009, an exciting summer extravaganza for 9 to 13 year olds attending primary and secondary schools in Bolton.
Herbarium collection to be documented using 'crowdsourcing' with online volunteers
Herbaria at home is a new initiative that harnesses enthusiastic members of the public to help document our herbarium collection via their website
Fishy Friends Family Art in the Aquarium
The Bolton Community College Family Learning Team teamed up with Bolton Aquarium to work with 2 local primary schools on a Family Art Project. The focus of the project was ‘friendship’, becoming friends of the Aquarium and friends across the schools.
Young Roots school project discovering wildlife heritage
Bolton Museum and Archive Service is working in partnership with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust and a group of young people from Withins School in Bolton on a project called Young Roots.
Stuart Maconie visits the museum to record a programme for Radio 4
Journalist, author and popular Radio 2 DJ Stuart Maconie paid a visit to the museum this week. He was here to record a radio programme about Bolton's connection with the American poet Walt Whitman (1819 to 1892).
Channel M capture an FA cup winner's memories at Bolton Museum
Manchester digital TV station Channel M bought an FA Cup veteran along to film a feature about our current exhibition.
Rare shirt comes to Bolton for F.A. Cup exhibition
An important piece of Bolton’s football history can be seen for a limited time at Bolton Museum.
Crowds flock to the museum for Egyptomania week
Our themed week for February half term – ‘Egyptomania’, a special week of free events, quizzes and activities all about the ancient Egyptians, attracted 13,923 visitors to the museum.
Popular Millais painting returns to Bolton Museum
Bolton Museum’s beautiful and haunting painting The Somnambulist (The Sleepwalker) by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, a visitors’ favourite; has finally returned after being on tour for over a year.
Every Object Tells a Story - Free lunchtime talks for 2009
Using objects from our collections as a starting point, each of these free talks will explore a fascinating range of topics - from fashion to fish!
Calling Bolton photographers
The museum now has a Flickr account. As well as putting our own collection images on line we want to involve local photographers too.
Bolton Art Circle and Camera Club Exhibition - Visitors Choice Prize
Throughout this exhibition visitors have been voting for their favourite piece from the 145 works of art on display by local artists and photographers.
Museum volunteers make tiny finds in the mineral collection
Members of the North West branch of the Russell Society have made some interesting discoveries.
