St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery
St. Barbe Museum
New Street
Lymington
Hampshire
SO41 9BH
England
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Telephone
01590 676969
Fax
01590 679 997
St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery tells the story of the coastal strip between the New Forest and The Solent and hosts a changing programme of high quality exhibitions.
St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery is an independent, charitable organisation run by the Lymington Museum Trust. Since opening in its finished form in 1999 St. Barbe Museum has acquired a reputation as one of the finest small museums and art galleries in the region and has received national recognition for its superb exhibitions.
Venue Type:
Museum, Gallery, Heritage site
The area has seen a thriving salt industry, smugglers landing their illegal cargoes on the coast, and has a long tradition of innovative boat building. The museum's aim is to capture the unique flavour of life in the district and to bring first class art exhibitions into the town. Since the beginning of the project in 1988, we have pursued an active collections policy, and today we have catalogued over 20,000 individual items which will tell the story of the six parishes. The collection covers a wide range from geology - fossils from the 40 million years old Barton Beds; Old Stone Age hand axes, flint tools and medieval pottery; local industry - pistons and piston rings manufactured in Lymington by Wellworthy, as well as many familar and not so familiar objects illustrating the more recent history of the area.
Collection details
Archaeology, Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Fine Art, Maritime, Natural Sciences, Science and Technology, Social History
Open Art Exhibition
The annual Open Exhibition showcasing the best paintings, prints and drawings by artists from around the region will be held at St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington from Saturday, 15th June until Saturday, 20th July. As the name suggests, the selling exhibition is open to both amateur and professional artists and there is no limitation as to subject matter or style, ensuring the display of an interesting and diverse range of works.
The chance to display artwork at the Open Exhibition is much sought after and highly competitive resulting in only the highest quality items being chosen by the panel of professional artists, which this year includes Bonnie Brown, Tim Craven and Gerry Dudgeon. Although it’s open to any artist from across the UK, most entries come from Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and Sussex.
First prize, the Clarke Willmott Award for overall merit is worth £250 to the winning artist, while the runner-up will receive the Mackenzie and Mackenzie Award (£200). Further prizes include the Mary Symons Memorial Award for the best print (£250) and the Beaulieu Fine Arts Award for best work by a non-professional artist who will receive £50 worth of framing.
Admission
cost £4 for adults, £3 for senior citizens and students, £2 for children aged five to 15, and £10 for a family of two adults and up to four children
under fives are admitted free of charge.
Under the Greenwood: Picturing British Trees - Past
Under the Greenwood: Picturing British Trees - Past, a new exhibition at St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, examines how well known artists ranging from John Constable and Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland have been inspired by our great trees. Running from Saturday 27th July until Saturday 5th October, it will be followed by a companion exhibition looking at how trees figure in the works of 33 present day artists.
The oak has become a symbol of our national character and individually, or collectively, trees are an integral part of our natural landscape. The first exhibition explores how trees have gradually been domesticated from the forbidding wildwood to the town garden. It studies mythology and religious symbolism, the longevity of trees and the seasonal cycle, and how man has exploited them for timber, food and fuel.
Regarded as a nationally important celebration of the tree, the exhibition will also include works from several other distinguished British artists. Amongst them will be Paul Sandby, John Martin, Heywood Sumner, George Clausen, Charles Ginner, Claire Leighton, John Nash, Robin Tanner and Henry Moore.
The exhibition is being produced in partnership with Southampton City Art Gallery
Admission
cost £4 for adults, £3 for senior citizens and students, £2 for children aged five to 15, and £10 for a family of two adults and up to four children
under fives are admitted free of charge.
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