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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
 

Events
Upcoming events

Cynthia Pell Exhibition Launch: Art Therapy Then and Now

From

7 April 2018 14:00 - 15:00

Location

Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham
Kent BR3 3BX

To launch our new exhibition 'Encased: the work of Cynthia Pell / (Mrs) Cynthia Weldon', Pell’s art therapist Britta Von Zweigbergk will be in conversation with Dr Val Huet, Chief Executive Officer of the British Association of Art Therapists. They will discuss the evolution of art therapy and its role in Pell’s life and work with David O’Flynn, Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust, a collection of art objects created by patients at the British long-stay psychiatric hospital, Netherne.