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 […]
November 18, 2016
The Vanity of Small Differences, a series of six exuberant tapestries by the Turner-Prize winning artist Grayson Perry, is now on display at The Beaney. The large-scale tapestries were created alongside the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 series, All in the Best Possible Taste, which follows Perry as he embarks ‘on a safari amongst the taste tribes of […]
July 26, 2020
The quality of services provided for older people at The Beaney in Canterbury has led to the museum being shortlisted for a national award. It is up against four other venues in the ‘Best Age-Friendly Cultural Organisation’ category at this year’s Fantastic for Families Awards, with the results set to be announced on 9 September. […]
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 […]
April 01, 2016
The Beaney art wall is prominently located in the new Best Lane entrance foyer and can be viewed from the ground floor, mezzanine and feature staircase. The space will be used to explore and showcase the creativity of the building’s collections and visitors through artwork created by Kent based artists and commissioned by The Beaney. […]
January 28, 2015
Dan Simpson was poet-in-residence at Canterbury Roman Museum. You can read more on Dan’s residency here. I ran a writing drop-in session at Canterbury Roman Museum last Wednesday, where people were free to join me in creating some Roman artefact-inspired poems. David Walsh (who joined me on the very first leg of my walk from London to Canterbury back […]
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 […]
August 28, 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 […]
May 11, 2021
Canterbury’s museums and galleries will reopen later this month with a busy schedule of activities, including a new exhibition showcasing artwork by young refugees and asylum seekers. Canterbury Roman Museum gets back up and running on Monday 17 May, with The Beaney following a day later. Pre-booking online is recommended for both venues and COVID […]
July 01, 2019
One of the world’s most prestigious photography awards returns to The Beaney this month. The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, which is organised by the National Portrait Gallery, celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world. This year’s exhibition features over 50 images from the 2018 competition, which […]
Strode Park Foundation has been working with local photographer Harry Booker to portray a day in the life of four of it’s residents. The exhibition has been named Beyond Limits to showcase the determination and a willingness of our residents who are pushing boundaries and instil that nothing is impossible. Their disability doesn’t define who […]
July 10, 2023
Firstly… Thank you so much to everyone that nominated The Beaney for the Family Friendly Museum Award. Guess what? We’ve been shortlisted! We’re really proud to have been rated as one of the Best Medium Museums for families in the UK as part of the Kids in Museums Family Friendly Award. During the summer we’ll […]