Well, this makes a change – an excursion to the far south-west!  It’s to the Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery for the Sir Joshua Reynolds exhibition.  Further details and a booking form were in the November Bulletin.

Note:  there is a waiting list of 20 to go on this excursion.

(This item updated on 4 January 2010)

Today we visit the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for the Matthew Boulton – Selling What all the World Desires’ exhibition, then on to Soho House and the Lunar Society

To mark the bicentenary of the demise of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is hosting a major exhibition focusing on his life and times.  In addition to being a great entrepeneur his Soho House became a meeting place for the so-called Lunar Society which counted the titans of the Enlightenment, Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, and James Watt among its members.

(This item updated on 23 July  2009)