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Help The Bowes Museum be more curious! This year, The Bowes Museum is undertaking a transformative project and we’d love you to be involved. The Curiosity Project will refit four gallery spaces and create three new collection stores. Our new spaces will open in March 2024. We don’t yet know what these spaces will look like but we do know that the changes we make here will shape the Museum’s forward direction. We want to do this together. We’re talking to lots of people in our community to explor

The beautiful Bowes Museum 📍 Barnard Castle. The Bowes Museum, situated in the picturesque town of Barnard Castle, County Durham, is a magnificent French château-style building that houses one of the most remarkable art collections in the north of England. This magnificent structure was the brainchild of John Bowes, an Englishman, and his French wife, Joséphine Bowes, an ardent art enthusiast. Although the couple did not witness its completion, the museum was unveiled to the public in 1892, ful