In this issue...
Tullie House wins Cumbria Tourism Award 2007
Lunchtime Talks - Free and informal talks by our specialist curators.
Did You Know? - Interesting facts about some of the collections at Tullie House
John Darwell - Committed to Memory - Art Gallery until 1 July
Decadence and Design; Ricketts, Shannon and their Circle - Special Exhibitions Gallery until 8 July
Brampton Live Music Festival - 20 - 22 July 2007
Are You Able to Help? - Carlisle Life Exhibition
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Tullie House Museum voted
'Large Visitor Attraction of the Year 2007' at the Cumbria Tourism Awards
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Hilary Wade with the Award and other members of Tullie House |
Dozens of businesses from around the county gathered at the Castle Green Hotel, Kendal to hear the winners announced by compere for the evening, Tim Backshall, of ITV Border’s Lookaround News programme.
Tullie House was judged among its competitors for excellence in categories relating to customer service, visitor experience and quality of the attraction. Winning the recognition over competitors Rheged, Penrith and the South Lakes Wild Animal Park, Dalton.
Hilary Wade Museum and Arts Manager said:
“We are absolutely delighted to receive the award and to be going forward to the regional awards in the autumn. It is a welcome accolade to all the hard work by staff here at Tullie House.”
The awards are supported by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and winners from the business categories will now go forward to represent Cumbria in the agency's England’s Northwest Tourism Awards later this year.
Lunchtime Talks - Free
Each Informal Talk starts at 1pm - 1.30pm in the Lecture Theatre
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Banded Demoiselle Dragonfly |
Tuesday 5 June
The Carlisle Roman Writing Tablets
Ah, the satisfying scrape of stylus on wax... Keeper of Archaeology, Tim Padley, waxes lyrical on our Roman correspondents.
Tuesday 19 June
Black History: The Lives of Two 'Natives of Africa' in North Cumberland
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Britain. Retired archivist Susan Dench delves into some hidden history.
Tuesday 3 July
Dragonflies - Jewels of the Insect World
What Senior Curator David Clarke doesn't know about darters, hawkers and their ilk, you could write on one of their shimmering wings. He's a fabulous photographer too.
Did You Know
Some interesting facts from the Natural History Collection
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Red Squirrels |
- Tullie House Museum established the first local wildlife records centre in Britain in 1902. The Museum now has some 400,000 wildlife records for Cumbria, which feed into the Virtual Fauna of Lakeland website at www.lakelandwildlife.co.uk
- There are about 150,000 insects in the Museum’s reference collections, dating back over 100 years. The data associated with these collections provides a valuable archive of information on the changes in the Cumbrian landscape over the last century.
- The Peregrine and Raven displays in the Border Galleries were created by former curator Ernest Blezard in the 1950s. These spectacular set-pieces are modelled on specific nest sites in Cumbria which are still being used by these species to this day.
- The Museum’s historical bird egg collections were used in a national study in the 1960s to show that wild birds of prey were laying thinner-shelled eggs than previously. This was the cause of population crashes and could be correlated with the use of agricultural pesticides at that time. As a result of the study a voluntary ban on the use of the pesticides was imposed and populations of many birds of prey subsequently recovered.
- Tissue samples of Red Squirrels preserved in our collections have been used by Newcastle University to show how the distribution of different populations of Red Squirrels in northern England have changed with time as a response to changes in woodland cover.
John Darwell - Committed to Memory
until 1 July
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From 'Scratching the Surface', 1993, © John Darwell |
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Based in Carlisle, John Darwell is one of the UK’s leading contemporary photographers.
2007 marks the 25th anniversary of John Darwell’s first exhibition. In celebration, the photographer and Director of Redeye (the photography network for the North West), Paul Herrmann, has curated this important retrospective for Tullie House, using his experience and insight as a photographer to make very personal connections with Darwell’s back catalogue of projects. Working closely with Darwell, Herrmann will concentrate on images that singly, and in combination, both redraw the impression we have of John Darwell as a photographer, and present us with a view of the world as fresh and compelling as the day the work was made.
Decadence and Design; Ricketts, Shannon and their Circle
Until 8 July
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Costume design for Tristan, 1920 |
On show is Ricketts’ most important early drawing Oedipus and the Sphinx 1891, his designs for Oscar Wilde’s books, theatre designs, oil paintings, an important album of drawings and examples of Shannon’s lithographs and oil paintings.
Works by their associates Alphonse Legros, William Rothenstein, Lucien Pissarro, Clinton Balmer, Walford Graham Robertson, Frederick Cayley Robinson, Charles Conder, James Guthrie and a selection of Gordon Bottomley’s published poetry and plays can also be seen. All the works are from the Gordon Bottomley collection bequeathed to Tullie House in 1949.
Brampton Live Festival
Friday 20 July - Sunday 22 July
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Brampton Live |
The Arts Unit at Tullie House organises Brampton Live - the north of England's biggest folk/roots music festival - every year at William Howard School in Brampton.
This year's event is headlined by American megastar Steve Earle and features a very special event that draws directly on border history. We've commissioned Scot Corinna Hewat and Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell to collaborate on a new composition, State of the Union, to mark the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England and Scotland.
The work will be premiered at the festival on Saturday 21 July by a nine-piece Anglo-Scottish ensemble, with additional contributions from Maddy Prior (the festival's official patron), Eddi Reader, Dick Gaughan, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan.
For full programme information visit the festival website at www.bramptonlive.net. Tickets are on sale from the box office at Tullie House - 01228 534664 - or online via the website.
Ticket sales are 40% up on this time time last year, so don't leave it until the last minute!
Are you able to help?
'Carlisle Life' Exhibition
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Mill Workers from Silloth 1916-1919 |
Tullie House is looking for local people to assist in helping to create a new gallery called ‘Carlisle Life.’ It will showcase Carlisle’s local history from the turn of the century to the present day.
The gallery will be a permanent feature of Tullie House and will open at the beginning of next year.
The gallery will be about local people and we want Carlisle’s people to provide Carlisle’s stories. We would like to represent both the stories of the past and of today.
We want local people to talk about work, leisure and domestic life in Carlisle during their lives. People are welcome to donate an object relating to one of these themes and footage will be captured and used in the gallery.
The sound recordings can be combined with an image of the object, or the donor, or footage of the individual talking about the item.
If you are interested in making history and would like to participate in the development of the exhibition please contact:
Edwin Rutherford
Keeper of Social History
Tullie House
Castle Street
Carlisle CA3 8TP
Telephone: 01228 534781 ext 233
Email: edwinr@carlisle.gov.uk
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