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Audio descriptions and insights into some of the most interesting artefacts and artworks in the museum collection.

A great way to enhance your experience at The Beaney or explore the collection from somewhere else.

 

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The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge

A Tudor style building with ornate woodwork and windows. The image is framed inside a B shaped window.

The Beaney building (1:46)

The Garden Room

B shaped window through which there is painting of a bull standing in a landscape

Separated but not divorced by Thomas Sidney Cooper (3:56)

The Study

B shaped window through which is a lion skin with taxidermy head with open eyes and snarling mouth

Lion Skin (3:23)

 

Rook in the Red Coat (2:09)

 

Narwhal Tusk (2:20)

Explorers & Collectors

B shaped window through which is a mummified cat whose teeth and snout are exposed

The Mummified Cat (2:21)

Find me in: Ancient Egypt case

B shaped window through which there is a metal rounded cross with square middle and curled engravings

The Canterbury Cross (2:11)

Find me in: Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Kent case

 

A small gold pendant in the shape of a dragon's head. The image is framed in a B shaped window

Anglo Saxon Dragon Pendant (1:02)

Find me in: Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Kent case

Materials & Masters

B shaped window through which is a grey clay figurine with a wide open mouth and black painted markings

Cochiti Pueblo Figure (2:42)

Find me in: Earth case

 

A doll wearing black headress in the kitchen of a dolls house. The image is seen through a B shaped window.

Dolls house (1:09)

 

Portrait of a Young Man, After Raphael (3:51)

People & Places

B shaped window through which is a landscape painting with pink and red roses in the foreground and Canterbury Cathedral in the background

It was the time of the Roses by David Murray (3:56)

 

The Murder of Becket by John Opie (3:17)

 

B shaped window through which is a painted portrait of a drag queen wearing red wig yellow boa and exagerated makeup

Delilah Tickles by Hannah Rose Thomas (4:35)

 

B shaped window through which is a realistic portait painting of an older man with a moustache and flatcap sitting in a garden

Dr Sinan Rawi by Oriane Pierrepoint (5:01)

 

B shaped window through which is a painting that looks like a collage of photographs of a woman and other prited material

Millie Knight by Dene Leigh (8:03)

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