THE Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth has announced that it is reopening to the public on Wednesday May 19, almost 126 years to the day that the original Brontë Museum opened in 1895. The Museum will mark the reopening after lockdown with two new exhibitions from celebrated ceramic artist Layla Khoo and Isabel Greenberg, the illustrator and writer behind the Brontë inspired graphic novel ‘Glass Town’. ‘Contemplating Hope’ by Layla Khoo is the first of two new exhibitions to take place in the Museum and will be in situ from May 2021 to May 2022. Khoo is a multimedia 3D artist, specialising in ceramics that respond to ideas, events or collections of objects. ‘Contemplating Hope’, which was planned to take place before Covid, will feature a new, carefully crafted ceramic vessel each month into which visitors can put a slip of paper on which they have written their hopes and dreams.
HAWORTH S Bronte Parsonage Museum reopens to the public on Wednesday, May 19, as lockdown restrictions are further eased. Visitors will be welcomed back through the doors almost 126 years to the day since the original Bronte Museum opened in 1895. The reopening comes after a tough period for the parsonage, which like other attractions has been hit hard by the impact of the pandemic. The museum has been closed throughout the winter and early spring. It received £119,200 from Arts Council England and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Culture Recovery Fund. The money helped the Bronte Society – the charity responsible for the museum – to provide support through lockdown and increase digital activity.
The quirky and historic British attractions that have suffered in lockdown England s oldest pub, a Victorian-style toy shop and the home of a literary family are among the hundreds to have faced difficulties
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Britain’s cultural hubs have faded during the pandemic. From previously thriving tourist attractions to beloved local pubs, the institutions that have sprouted throughout our rich history have been put under threat.
The “oldest pub in England , a tiny toy museum and the home of three of our best-known authors are among the many examples of those taken to the brink during the last 12 months.