Special Events

• Gourmet Evening with Anton Edelmann

  Date : 27th June 2013
  Time : 7:15 pm - 10:00 pm

  Tullie House is delighted to invite Anton Edelmann, who has devised a four course menu to work alongside our chefs and offer a Gourmet experience. Anton Edelmann is renowned for having been the Savoy Hotel's maitre chef des cuisines for over 20 years. Gerard Basset OBE, a Master of Wine, Master...

• George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle: Artist and Patron

  Date : 20th July 2013 - 13th October 2013

  This major retrospective exhibition about George Howard (1843-1911), 9th Earl of Carlisle, reveals his importance as an artist and patron of the arts. The exhibition charts Howard’s artistic development and patronage through a rich and varied selection of over 100 art works. The exhibition...

• Festival of British Archeaology - Medieval Times

  Date : 23rd July 2013
  Time : 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

  For this year's festival we are planning to go back in time as we explore how people of the past used to live. Enter our museum and meet experimental archaeologist, Graham Taylor. Find out more about our objects and see how they were made and used in a fascinating encounter with our potter from the...

• Festival of British Archeaology - Bronze Age Times

  Date : 25th July 2013
  Time : 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

  For this year's festival we are planning to go back in time as we explore how people of the past used to live. Enter our museum and meet experimental archaeologist, Graham Taylor. Find out more about our objects and see how they were made and used in a fascinating encounter with our potter from the...

• George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle: Artist and Patron

  Date : 25th July 2013
  Time : 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843-1911) belonged to one of the most important aristocratic families in England. He had a consuming passion for art from an early age and his prolific output and artistic range demonstrates his ambitions to be regarded as a professional artist. His...

• It's time to Up-Cycle!

  Date : 12th August 2013 - 16th August 2013
  Time : 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

  Be inspired by our stunning costume collections and join us for a week of workshops with professional textile artist, Kim McDermottroe. You will learn techniques to transform something that was headed for the bin into something unique and stylish, achieving the Bronze Arts Award as you do it! This...

• Heart of the Sahara by John Pilkington

  Date : 14th November 2013
  Time : 2:00 pm - 3:12 pm

  Travel writer, photographer and broadcaster John Pilkington is an old friend of Tullie House, and has been described as "one of Britain’s greatest tellers of travellers’ tales". In 2006 John made a trip which was the stuff of dreams. Every week throughout the winter, a caravan...

• Up the Mekong to Tibet by John Pilkington

  Date : 14th November 2013
  Time : 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

  Travel writer, photographer and broadcaster John Pilkington is an old friend of Tullie House, and has been described as "one of Britain’s greatest tellers of travellers’ tales". This exciting journey took John up the world’s eleventh longest river from the South China...