Tullie House wins a silver award in the National Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2008

Large Visitor Attraction of the Year

Hilary Wade, Museum & Arts Manager of Tullie House receives the Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction 2008

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery won a silver accolade at the National Enjoy England Awards for Excellence.

The awards ceremony took place in St George’s Hall, Liverpool in celebration of Liverpool, European City of Culture and St George’s Day.

Now in their 19th year, the awards are affectionately known as the ‘Tourism Oscars’. They promote healthy industry competition and high standards, helping to ensure England's place as a world-class destination.

Tullie House won the award in the ‘Large Visitor Attraction of the Year’ category at the prestigious ceremony.

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May Half Term Holiday

Border Galleries

If you're spending a day in Carlisle make sure you include a visit to Tullie House. We have plenty of activities throughout the May Half Term to keep everyone busy.

Saturday 24 May
11am - 12.30pm or 2pm - 3.30pm

Circus Skills

TRY YOUR HANDS AT CIRCUS SKILLS
with Circus Tim of ClubCircus UK

Have a go at a variety of circus skills, from juggling to plate spinning and diabolo.

Tuesday 27 May
1pm – 4pm

GALLERY DROP IN - DESIGNED FOR PURPOSE

in the Special Exhibitions Gallery

Explore the fascinating Birds of Prey exhibition, then use your imagination to make your own landscape and design a bird perfectly suited to thrive there.

Wednesday 28 May
1pm - 4pm

GALLERY DROP IN - NO SUCH THING AS SOCIETY

in the Art Gallery

Explore the images and themes of modern life presented in this challenging photography exhibition. Make a 3D collage illustrating your own message about society today.

Admission free. Suitable for adults and older children.

Thursday 29 May
1pm – 4pm

GALLERY DROP IN - DESIGNED FOR PURPOSE

in the Special Exhibitions Gallery

Explore the fascinating Birds of Prey exhibition, then use your imagination to make your own landscape and design a bird

Friday 30 May

Wallace and Gromit

1pm – 4pm

PERFECT PORCELAIN

Discover the exquisite, world-class collection of porcelain in Old Tullie House and decorate your own ceramic mug to take home.

Saturday 31 May
1pm - 2.30pm or 3pm - 4.30pm

THE SCIENCE OF TOYS - BALANCING & MOVING OBJECTS

Another fun-with-science workshop. Try your hand at making the balancing bird or a CD racing chariot and lots of other wacky scientific toys, with prizes for the best in each category!

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No Such Thing As Society

Art Gallery - 10 May - 13 July 2008

Daniel Meadows Portsmouth: John Payne, aged 12, with two friends and his pigeon, Chequer, 26 April 1974 Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre Copyright the artist, 2007

No Such Thing as Society focuses on photography produced in Britain during the period 1967 – 1987.

This exhibition – a unique collaboration between the Arts Council and the British Council – draws upon both collections to give a radically new picture of two turbulent decades.

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Workshops for Adults

Creative Solutions to Tricky Problems

31 May - Creative Solutions to Tricky Problems

When a problem arises in our lives – what do we do? Just as water in a stream flows over and around an obstacle, accommodating it within its flow, we can take the same approach using our creativity. Working individually and as a group, we’ll use a variety of art materials including pens, paper, clay, paints and a few everyday objects. We’ll try out several ways to leap from our left brain into right brain function to discover, hopefully, a few new insights. This is an experimental and experiential day which will be fun and informal - previous experience of working with art materials is not essential.

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Carlisle Life Website

Carlisle Life Website

A New website to compliment the gallery

The Carlisle Life website reflects the galleries ethos in creating a sense of place and flavour of Carlisle's recent local history.

The website has strong community based audio-visual content which is linked to a community based interactive in the gallery - 'Your Story.'

Visitors to the website can see footage of members of the community talking about objects relating to broad themes of work, leisure and home life.

The content seen on the web will also appear in the gallery at regular eight monthly intervals. The Website provides visitors with an overview of the exhibition and its cases. There is also a collections search facility which will develop in time.

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River Caldew Flood Scheme Art Surgery

Wednesday 14 May - Denton Holme

We are working with the Environment Agency and one of Britain's leading public artists, Liam Curtin, to realise a series of public art works as part of the flood alleviation scheme for the River Caldew in Denton Holme and the centre of Carlisle.

Liam is designing a series of decorative plaques based on aspects of Carlisle's history, the natural history of the river itself and - of course - the great flood of 2005.

The artist is particularly interested to hear from people with stories to tell about the flood, and is running an 'Art Surgery' on Wednesday 14 May at Denton Holme Community Centre (in Morley Street) from 4.00pm - 7.00pm. People are invited to drop in, meet the artist, learn more about the flood defences and the proposed artworks, and share their stories.