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Please note the Museum is closed from 22 December 2024 to 1 January 2025 inclusive.
Last day open 2024: Saturday 21 December.  First day open 2025: Thursday 2 January.

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In the Frame for January 2012: Bryan Charnley’s ‘Indecision’

Art

Find out more about this interesting work by Bryan Charnley.

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Curatorial Conversations V

Collection, Exhibitions

Find out more about discussions held at one of our recent consultation sessions.

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Human, All Too Human 3

Exhibitions

Blog readers who took up last week’s invitation to identify the emotions represented in the photographic portraits of Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne...

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In the Spotlight: Wilhelmina Geddes

Art

Read the penultimate article in this current series.

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Human, All Too Human 2

Events, History

Cambridge University is recreating online an experiment originally conducted by Charles Darwin with dinner party...

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This Is Your Hospital: New Web Resource

Learning

The Archives and Museum launches a new web learning resource this weekend, This is Your Hospital, devoted to the middle twenty years of the life...

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Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum at Tate Britain

Events

Bethlem and its collections came under the spotlight in a discussion event hosted by Tate Britain on 1 December. Mike Jay (author of The Air...

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Human, All Too Human 1

Events, History

In 2009 the Natural History Museum mounted a temporary exhibition entitled After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions which sought to present “a...

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In the Frame for December 2011: ‘A ‘Fisk’ Out of Aqua’

Art

This month's work in focus is called 'A 'Fisk' Out of Aqua', and was painted by an artist that we don't have much information about.

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Bethlem Affordable Art Fair 2011

Art

You are invited to the The Bethlem Gallery’s much loved 2011 annual open exhibition, showcasing the work of artists from South London and Maudsley...

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Curatorial Conversations IV

Collection, Exhibitions

Hear more about the experiences of curators at Bethlem Museum.

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Galton’s Asylum Photos: Typecast at UCL

History

Galton's photography provides us with an interesting record of Bethlem's history.  Find out more about him here.

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