Work with our experienced facilitator to mummify a classmate and groan as the intestines are pulled out! Wrap an animal mummy against the clock, investigate real artefacts and create a papyrus cartouche. Key stage 2, intermediate and above ESOL students.
June 17, 2015
Canterbury has strong connections with Magna Carta being one of the five charter towns in England. An extensive programme of events is planned to mark the 800th anniversary of the sealing of this great charter in 1215. To mark the importance of the city to Magna Carta, The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury’s […]
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.
June 10, 2016
This week we said goodbye to one of our Marketing volunteers, Patrizia Berchi, who is heading back home to Italy to begin what we are sure will be a very exciting career in Marketing (she can also speak five, yes FIVE languages!). Before we let her go, we asked her to look back on her […]
January 22, 2016
Sonia Overall is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. I’m a frequent visitor of the Beaney collections, often notebook in hand. On my first residency visit, I returned to some items that have caused me to pause, ponder and want to scribble: three small Anglo-Saxon gaming counters. Objects associated with gaming can […]
April 04, 2016
Sonia Overall is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. One of the chief attractions of the armchair artist opportunity for me was meeting previous residents Jill Holder and Bob Lamoon. Their oversized homage to the rook in the red coat, exhibited in the Front Room, continues to haunt me. The original rook […]
March 10, 2016
Sonia Overall is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. The loudest message I receive from the Beaney Collection when I visit is: LOOK CLOSER. As a writer I am always playing with words and tuning in to text, so it’s no surprise that I’ve started to notice covert writing in the Beaney […]
July 07, 2022
We are gearing up to celebrate 10 years since The Beaney’s grand reopening following an extensive three-year redevelopment of the historic Canterbury landmark. Since reopening its doors in 2012, the museum has displayed an impressive 98 world-class exhibitions, delivered award-winning school workshops to 25,000 students, supported 6,500 health and wellbeing participants and welcomed 27,500 new Library […]
December 08, 2021
Gutter Apples was painted by British artist Ian Hunter (27th April 1939 – 1st March 2017), in oil paints on board and hangs in the People and Places gallery at The Beaney. It’s a piece that often captures the attention of visitors, exuding an air of mystery that leaves its admirers with more questions than […]
November 21, 2014
Written by Beaney artists in residence Holder and Lamoon It has been a while since we last posted a blog about our work at The Beaney, not because we have been sitting around doing nothing, because we have been working on bit of a secret mission. Well not that secret, but we didn’t want to […]
December 06, 2021
It’s no secret that our museums are full to the brim with treasures, trinkets and treats – many of which sadly can’t be taken home (imagine trying to smuggle Charlie the Bull out the building?!) But fear not – there are lots of ways to take a little piece of Canterbury Museums and Galleries home […]
