🎼 The Beaney has bagged funding to explore the power of music!

🎤 Free singing sessions for people living with dementia will launch at The Beaney after the museum secured three years of funding from the National Academy for Social Prescribing’s Power of Music Fund. 1/7

📣 Only a month away from opening a very special exhibition!

On Saturday 8 June we’ll be inviting everyone to delve into the life and work of literature's best kept secret, #Canterbury ’s own: Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

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👋 Are we accessible for families?

🏆 We were so proud to have won the Best Medium Museum award last year: The process with Kids in Museums helped us develop and review what we offer families.

This year we’d love to hear from families about #accessibility at The Beaney!

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #DidYouKnow ? Before The Beaney was here on #Canterbury High Street there was The George & Dragon inn. Toward the very end of the 19th century the pub was demolished and although the city lost one of its pubs it gained a new museum and free library!

#StGeorgesDay #OldPhotos

We love these rings 👇

💓 A huge thank you to everyone who helped celebrate 50 years of…
The most important
The most beautiful
The most magical
Saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world!

📍You can still find #Bagpuss and friends in the Smallfilms Gallery at The Beaney until at least 28 July 2024!

🪡 ‘Be Faithful To Your Dreams’

Art you can carry in your pocket - we love this piece by #TraceyEmin ! Emin uses a wide variety of media including #embroidery like this piece in:

Living With Art: An extraordinary collection from an ordinary home […]

🩷Bagpuss had a great time at Canterbury Cathedral

You might have seen that he’s been out and about celebrating his 50th birthday by visiting some special places...

Here he is thinking back to visiting in 1987 to collect his honorary degree from the University of Kent!

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🥚What’s on at Canterbury Museums & Galleries this #Easter ?

Find out in our Easter blog: canterburymuseums.co.uk/easter-fun-at-…

💙 We’re so happy to see Audrey Williams’ blue plaque go up today on #InternationalWomensDay !

Audrey Williams (1902-1978) led the first excavation of the Roman house now preserved at the museum.

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It’s #InternationalWomensDay and we are looking forward to taking a deep dive into the amazing life and work of Aphra Behn.

Find out more ⬇️

🎭 We’re so excited to see English Touring Opera returning to the The Marlowe Theatre this month!

It’s the Spring 24 tour, featuring two new ETO productions.    

Performances: 15-16 March

🎟️: englishtouringopera.org.uk

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Coming soon: Living With Art: An extraordinary collection from an ordinary home ✨

Including artworks by Banksy, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Paul Nash and Henry Moore.

Image: BLUE Bash by Eduardo Paolozzi © The Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by DACS 2023

🤔 Where’s Delilah!?

If you visited last week you might have seen that the portrait of Delilah Tickles is out on loan. There's been lots of interest in this painting…

🌈 What’s so special about our newest portraits is that we can still talk to the sitters! [...]

#PrideMonth

👀A sneak peak into the British Museum Legion exhibition

Here's the much talked about Double Sword Burial from Canterbury. Curators loaned and reconstructed this unique burial, believed to be the result of an ancient murder that took place in #Roman #Canterbury !

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👣 Canterbury's ancient paths

📖 Perhaps the best known #Canterbury footpath is the one from London made famous by Chaucer, but did you know there is one far older and longer? 1/5