August 14, 2015
Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. I believe maps to be important documents reflecting cultural interests and changing social attitudes and I also think the personality, the views and the interests of a person drawing a map must always indirectly leek out however precise and accurate the map is! […]
July 03, 2020
An exploration of life under lockdown will be at the heart of the reopening of The Beaney House of Art of Knowledge.
The Beaney will open its doors for the first time since closing in March on Tuesday 21 July.
August 21, 2015
Made through a series of open workshops at the Beaney. Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. The second workshop coincided with another event at the Beaney that day and it was busy. I don’t remember a point during the day where it wasn’t being worked on. It was so […]
May 15, 2022
Canterbury’s Museums and Galleries proudly announce the three early career artists and portrait sitters selected to create commissions celebrating the District’s diverse population. These commissions will be displayed at The Beaney as part of Mirror Mirror, an exhibition developed in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery as part of their National Skills Sharing Partnership Programme […]
July 01, 2016
The latest blog from Adam De Ville, Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. It’s a couple of days after my experiment playing birdsong at the miniatures collection. All the birds have flown now but the session proved very successful. Visitors shared their personal responses to the miniatures, and to my recorded birdsong from my garden. […]
September 01, 2015
Gary Studley is currently poet-in-residence at Canterbury Roman Museum. Blog Nine. Ok, so I guess I kind of lied all those months ago in Blog Two… …In creative writing – whether for a poem, short story or Chapter One of a massive novel – they say that your first line should grab the reader’s attention. […]
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 […]
June 02, 2016
Do you enjoy heritage? Would you, or someone you know, like to learn new skills and be inspired by collections at the Beaney and Canterbury Cathedral? If so, The Beaney and Canterbury Cathedral are hosting a selection of FREE Textiles and Mixed Media creative workshops for adults with sight loss living in Kent. Workshops are […]
Come and meet Bagpus and his friends in the Beaney and hear the tales of how between them all they investigate and fix the strange objects they find – a bit like us at the museums! You will also make and take home a Bagpus inspired ‘art y fact’!
June 15, 2015
Today is a very exciting day at Canterbury Museums as some of our favourite residents are making their return to the small screen. Tonight sees the premiere of the new series of Clangers which will air on CBeebies at 17:30. Old and new fans of the original TV show are bound to fall in love […]
December 17, 2019
In our ‘Talking Heritage’ series, we chat with Canterbury Museums and Galleries staff about what they get up to behind the scenes to deliver our brilliant museums service. 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! This […]
