July 19, 2021
A free exhibition exploring how artists have used printmaking techniques to exploit the potential of the printed line opens at The Beaney this Saturday (24 July). The Arts Council Collection’s touring exhibition, The Printed Line, runs in the Special Exhibition Gallery until Sunday 10 October and celebrates how artists have used printmaking techniques to take […]
July 12, 2021
Canterbury’s Museums and Galleries service has become one of 12 organisations in the country to join the National Portrait Gallery’s National Skills Sharing Partnership. Over the next two years, all the partners involved in the project will work together to share learning and experience of working in museums and galleries across the UK. Venues range from […]
February 02, 2021
Day 318: Monday 1st February There are no leaves on the tree opposite the cottage. There is a slight eerie mist lingering in the distance that looks like it is rising up from the grass. A carpet of frost glistens across the green but it looks like it is going to be a bright day as […]
March 05, 2015
In celebration of #WorldBookDay, here’s a roundup of little known facts about our favourite authors with a connection to Kent and Canterbury… 1. In the 1920s Canterbury resident Mary Tourtel was asked by the Daily Express to invent a children’s character for the newspaper. Her creation was the iconic, and much loved, Rupert Bear. 2. […]
January 19, 2021
Day 304: Monday 18th January I was awoken today by Radio 4. I’m not sure what it could be about waking up to hear the current state of the world that manages to motivate me to get out of bed, but I’m not questioning it. I am currently on a kind of flexi-furlough, so only […]
October 19, 2015
Gary Studley is currently poet-in-residence at Canterbury Roman Museum. Greetings, citizens, I salute you. Or more traditionally, welcome to Blog Eleven. Not wishing to be too presumptuous or dare imply that you out there and I in here have any kind of relationship, but the last time I wrote to you – in Blog Ten […]
April 06, 2023
The Beaney needs your votes! We’ve been nominated for the Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award 2023. The prestigious award recognises museums, galleries and heritage sites that provide a great experience for children, young people and families. It is the only museum award to be judged by families. At The Beaney we believe in […]
February 12, 2019
An exhibition of 30 stunning models of iconic moments in British history made entirely out of LEGO bricks comes to The Beaney in Canterbury this February. ‘Bricks Britannia: A History of Britain in LEGO Bricks’ includes as its centrepiece a show-stopping eight metre-long model of The Flying Scotsman, the world’s most famous steam locomotive, […]