St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery
Open 10am - 5pm, Monday to Saturday
10am - 4pm on Sunday
Year-round
events for
all ages
Browse Friends of St Barbe events below
East Cliff Hall: A Victorian Villa
Starts: October 5 - 7:00pm
Ends: October 5 - 8:30pm
Sarah Newman, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Manager and former St Barbe Community and Exhibitions Officer
An illustrated talk about this unique Victorian villa, built by hoteliers Sir Merton and Annie Russell-Cotes on the cliff top of Bournemouth in 1901. East Cliff Hall was both a lavishly decorated home and a showcase for their eclectic collection of fine and decorative arts and natural history and ethnography gathered on their travels around the world.
Friends of St Barbe talks are held at Lymington Baptist Church, opposite St Barbe Museum, in New Street, Lymington.
Doors open at 7pm and talks start at 7.30pm.
The talks are free for Friends and £5 for non-members
Berthon and his Boats
Starts: November 2 - 7:00pm
Ends: November 2 - 8:30pm
Rev E. L. Berthon and the folding boats that he designed
By Phoebe Merrick, Chairman Romsey Local History Society
When, on the 18 June 1850, the SS Orion was wrecked off Portpatrick, Revd Clark, a survivor, wrote to Revd Berthon: Can not you think of a way in which boats, enough for all on board, be stowed on a passenger steamer without inconvenience? This led to Berthon’s development of the Berthon Collapsible Lifeboat.
Friends of St Barbe talks are held at Lymington Baptist Church, opposite St Barbe Museum, in New Street, Lymington.
Doors open at 7pm and talks start at 7.30pm.
The talks are free for Friends and £5 for non-members
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, New Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9BH | Registered Charity No. 1018779
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