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Museum of Bath Architecture

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Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Museum of Bath Architecture
Phone:
+44 1225 333895

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday1pm - 5pm
Tuesday1pm - 5pm
Wednesday1pm - 5pm
Thursday1pm - 5pm
Friday1pm - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The Museum of Bath Architecture in Bath, Somerset, England, occupies the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, where it provides exhibits that explain the building of the Georgian era city during the 18th century. It is owned and managed by the Bath Preservation Trust. The Trust moved its own offices from Number One Royal Crescent to occupy part of the Chapel while the Whole Story Project was undertaken to reunite Number One with its original domestic offices. As of 2018 some Trust staff are based at No. 1 Royal Crescent and some are at the Old School House adjacent to the Museum of Bath Architecture. The museum includes a series of models, maps, paintings and reconstructions to show how a typical Georgian house was constructed, from the ashlar stone to the decorative plasterwork. Sections include displays of stone mining, furniture making, painting, wallpaper, soft furnishings and upholstery. A model of Bath on a 1:500 scale gives a bird's-eye view of the city. The study gallery specialises in books on architecture including the Bath Buildings Record and Coard Collection.The collection includes several works whose purchase was supported by the Art Fund. A panoramic view of Bath from Beechen Cliff, by Charles Joseph Hullmandel and dating from 1824 shows Bath as a still relatively small city, after its Georgian growth, but before the arrival of the railway and Victorian expansion. A slightly later panorama by Joseph William Allen is of Bath from Lyncombe Hill, on the present site of 6 Carlton Road, and includes a gabled house in the immediate centre foreground which still stands and is reputed to have been the house in which Alexander Pope once stayed.
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