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Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
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Established1893; 131 years ago (1893)
LocationCastle Street, Carlisle CA3 8TP, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates54°53′43″N 2°56′26″W / 54.8952°N 2.9405°W / 54.8952; -2.9405
Visitors240,000 (2018) [3]
ChairmanAndrew Smith [1]
DirectorAndrew Mackay [2]
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Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, officially known as Tullie since July 2024, is a museum in Carlisle, England. Opened by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, the original building is a converted Jacobean mansion, with extensions added when it was converted. At first the building contained the museum and also a library, an art school and a technical school.[4][5]

Tullie House Museum is currently partly closed to the public for redevelopment work. It will fully re-open in the autumn of 2024, when it will have a new main entrance on Castle Street to its north-east.[6]

The building, including the extensions, is a Grade I listed building,[4] and the wall, gates and railings in front of the house are separately Grade I listed.[7]

The two schools were moved in the 1950s and the library in 1986. The museum expanded into the city Guildhall in 1980 and with new space available from 1986 it underwent an extensive redevelopment over 1989–90 and again in 2000–01.

Since May 2011 the museum has been an independent charitable trust, the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust.[8][needs update] It is one of the three members of the Cumbria Museum Consortium, along with Lakeland Arts and the Wordsworth Trust.[9] In 2012–15 and 2015–18 this consortium was one of the 21 museums or consortia (16 in the earlier period) to be funded by Arts Council England as "Major Partner Museums".[10]

Collections

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The museum has large and eclectic collections of zoological, botanical and geological material. The plant collector, Clara Winsome Muirhead worked at the museum in the 1940s and donated a large collection of botanical specimens to the museum. The fine and decorative arts collections include works by Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelite artists, as well as Stanley Spencer, Winifred Nicholson, Sheila Fell and Phil Morsman.

Musical instruments

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There is collection of stringed instruments including a violin by Andrea Amati from the royal collection of France.[11]

Roman Britain

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There were two Roman forts in Carlisle, one of which, Uxelodunum (or Stanwix to use the modern toponym), was the largest along the length of Hadrian's Wall. The museum houses important collections and temporary exhibitions associated with Hadrian's Wall.[12]

Post-Roman history

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The human history collection also features permanent exhibitions dedicated to the Vikings and the Border Reivers.

Accolades

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Tullie House Museum won the annual Family Friendly Museum Award (sponsored by the Telegraph Media Group) in 2015.[13]

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  • Tullie House Gardens
    Tullie House Gardens
  • Centre piece of Roman Jupiter mount
    Centre piece of Roman Jupiter mount
  • Arthur Hughes - The Rift within the Lute
    Arthur Hughes - The Rift within the Lute
  • Roman gravestone
    Roman gravestone
  • Margery Jackson's court mantua dress
    Margery Jackson's court mantua dress
  • 19th century Swans
    19th century Swans
  • Ancient Roman tombstone
    Ancient Roman tombstone
  • Ancient Roman plaque
    Ancient Roman plaque
  • Medieval Rickerby Hoard Coin
    Medieval Rickerby Hoard Coin
  • Langdale axe
    Langdale axe
  • Cricket Match at Edenside
    Cricket Match at Edenside
  • Side Entrance
    Side Entrance

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Trust Board". Tullie House. 12 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Senior Leadership Team". Tullie House. 12 September 2024.
  3. ^ "TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY TRUST ANNUAL REVIEW 2017/2018" (PDF). Tullie House.
  4. ^ a b Historic England. "Tullie House and Extensions, 15, Abbey Street (1297353)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Tullie House and extensions: Detailed Record". Historic England. 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2008.
  6. ^ Riddick, James (20 February 2024). "Multi-million-pound museum transformation begins in Carlisle". Tullie - Museum & Art Gallery. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Wall, gates and railings in front of Tullie House, Abbey Street (1196978)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  8. ^ "About us". Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  9. ^ "Home page". Cumbria Museum Consortium. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  10. ^ Atkinson, Rebecca (1 July 2014). "ACE increases number of Major Partner Museums". Museums Journal. Museums Association. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  11. ^ "Amati violin". Tullie House. 9 December 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  12. ^ Roman... Archived 3 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ Steel, Patrick (2015). "Tullie House wins Telegraph..." Museums Association. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
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