This series of art history lectures explores five exhibitions whose impact reached far beyond the galleries in which they were staged.

Art History Lecture Series

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Five Exhibitions That Changed Their World

Friday 25 September – Friday 23 October

10.15am - 12.15pm

£6 per lecture

Includes tea/coffee and biscuits

Booking essential

This series of art history lectures explores five exhibitions whose impact reached far beyond the galleries in which they were staged. Spanning different countries, different centuries and very different purposes, each became a landmark event that shaped public opinion and influenced the way art and cultural heritage were understood. Some introduced audiences to extraordinary discoveries or previously unseen masterpieces; others challenged accepted ideas, reflected political ideologies, or visualised the loss to the nation of its own cultural heritage. In every case, the exhibitions became part of a much larger story than the works they contained. Together they demonstrate that exhibitions can preserve or disperse, educate or provoke, celebrate or condemn, and, on occasion, transform the way we understand our history, our identity and our cultural inheritance.

Friday 25 September

Treasures of Tutankhamun

Speaker: Dr, Conny Bailey

Art work: Selection from the Egyptian Collection

Friday 2 October

Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857

Speaker: Dr. Miriam Gill

Art work: Antonioni Bellucci, Diana

Friday 9 October

Degenerate Art

Speaker: Dr. Conny Bailey

Art work: Marie Laurencin, Paul Eluard

Friday 16 October

Manet and the Post Impressionists

Speaker: Dr. Miriam Gill

Art work: Ben Mathews, Village on a Hill

Friday 23 October

Destruction of the Country House

Speaker: Dr. Conny Bailey

Art work: George Clark of Scaldwell, Northamptonshire Delineated 100 Houses

Artworks and speaker details are correct at the time of publishing but may be subject to change.

A series ticket can be purchased for £25.

Tickets are also available to purchase direct from the museum either in person or by calling 01604 526322 Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm and Sundays 12-5pm

Description supplied by the event organiser.