May 29, 2019
In our ‘Talking Heritage’ series, we’ll be chatting with Canterbury Museums and Galleries staff about what they get up to behind the scenes to deliver our brilliant museums services. The series aims to serve as a useful resource for those interested in heritage work as well as hopefully demystifying what us ‘museum folk’ actually do! […]
March 15, 2021
July 27, 2015
Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. I made an artwork based on the Folk Tale called ‘The Wantsum Worm’ I mentioned this in my previous blog post. I liked the idea of maps and stories merging together. The result is difficult to describe, it’s definitely a sculpture, it’s also […]
February 24, 2017
The latest blog from Katherine Herbert,  Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge. In my last blog I talked about my experiences of handling the objects at The Beaney. Seeing and feeling the marks made by the creator has got me thinking about production, reproduction and imitation. As an artist working in […]
August 14, 2015
Gary Studley is currently poet-in-residence at Canterbury Roman Museum. Buenos dias a todos and welcome to Blog Seven. As hinted at in Blog Six, one of the wonderful things about the Canterbury Roman Museum is that it appears to have made the decision to slow things down in the way it exhibits artefacts and its […]
January 13, 2017
With the festive season over and people’s thoughts turning to resolutions and all things new, spare a thought for our four legged companions who may also have put on a few pounds. Even so, despite this we are a nation of animal lovers, with many of us owning a pet, or knowing someone who does. […]
September 07, 2015
Daren Kearl is the Community Development Librarian for Canterbury and Swale District and is based at the Beaney. His role includes working with partners and the local community. A series of blogs on things you probably didn’t know The Beaney offered… Bag Books Bag Books are multi-sensory stories. Each book consists of individual pages of […]
September 10, 2015
10th post – Aug 31s This is my final blog post, the last of my map/travelogue explorations, bringing my residency at the Beaney in Canterbury to an end. Actually I think it is the beginning of my explorations really, the start of an inner journey of some kind. Some kind of exploration into map making […]
July 29, 2016
“For those of us about to leaflet, we salute you!” Some of you may have noticed the last few days that I’ve been wearing a – different kind of uniform recently. Something a bit more, shall we say, Romanesque! Yup! All last week (various days in July) I was parading as my Roman alter ego – […]
July 27, 2020
Canterbury Roman Museum in Butchery Lane will reopen this Saturday (1 August), featuring an interactive projector where children can uncover a hidden mosaic and uncover hidden treasure. All tickets until the end of August will be half price. Opening hours are 10am to 5pm, seven days a week. Capacity is limited to 12 visitors per session, with each session […]
June 10, 2016
Arts Passing It is with great sadness that we mark, the passing of Stories in the Dark No more bulbs blown, no more visitors thrown But let us not forget, that it was art, and in the cultural education of Canterbury it thus played its part Click clock, dull thwack, Discombobulation, nuclear installation What is […]
