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The Bowes Museum
Young artist at the After School Club at The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
After School Club
The After School Club at The Bowes Museum was initially established in September 2002 with funding from the Campaign for Learning 'Reading Together' Scheme.
It was formed in response to local children's requests for a club that allowed unaccompanied children entry to the Museum and access to a range of activities they had asked for. Since then, the After School Club has gone from strength to strength and has played a large part in the Museum receiving Investing in Children Status.
The projects run by the After School Club have been wide and varied and are always decided upon by the members themselves. Over the years, the children have been involved in producing a banner for the Barnard Castle Banner Festival, painting ceramic plates and tiles, block-printing bedroom signs and picture frames, making textile hand puppets and even designing, creating and exhibiting their very own moving swans, inspired of course, by the Museum's most famous object – The Silver Swan.
The Museum's Education Team run the club every Wednesday afternoon during term time for children aged seven to twelve years. It continues to be a great success fostering a clear interest and enthusiasm for art and craft activities for all children involved.
The Bowes Museum
The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, County Durham, which opened to the public in 1982, is one of the region’s great surprises. The French-style chateau was built by wealthy businessman John Bowes, illegitimate son of the 10th Earl of Strathmore, and his Parisian actress wife, Josephine. Both had a great love of the arts, and the purpose-built museum houses the huge collection of treasures they amassed from all over Europe.
Today the gallery offers a vast range of decorative objects and paintings, including what is acknowledged to be one of the most important collections of Spanish paintings in Britain, including works by Goya and El Greco.
The museum also has a fantastic collection of ceramics, fine furniture and tapestries and the Silver Swan musical automaton is probably the museum’s most famous exhibit.
With a family connection to the late Queen Mother, the museum has a selection of Royal-related art with exhibitions including the Queen Mother's watercolours and Rolf Harris' painting of The Queen.
For more information on The Bowes Museum go to www.thebowesmuseum.org,uk