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Enjoy our mulled apple juice and mince pies, free drop-in origami holiday workshop, and get for your seasonal gifts in our Museum shop.   Free entry for Discovery Card holders.

To celebrate our current exhibition ‘Revolution, Propaganda, Art: Printmaking in Modern China’, we have prepared a printing festive workshop for families. Drop in without a booking, participate in a very jolly treasure hunt around our collection and enjoy making your very own holiday cards and labels using stamps and colours. This workshop is designed for (… continued)

In this 45 minute gallery talk Mary Ginsberg, curator of the exhibition ‘Revolution, Propaganda, Art: Printmaking in Modern China’ will discuss the curatorial thinking behind the exhibition, and the selection of some 70 images from the extensive collection of prints held by the Muban Educational Trust. The exhibition explores artistic trends, political conflict and technical (… continued)

Speakers: Christer von der Burg (founder Muban Educational Trust) and Haiyao Zheng (Secretary) Christer von der Burg and the late Verena Bolinder-Müller, friends for many years, shared a love of Chinese woodblock prints and, in the late 1990s, became increasingly concerned with the gradual decline in woodblock printmaking in contemporary China. Join us on a (… continued)

Throughout Museums Week, the Museum of East Asian Art team will be running 20 minutes Spotlight Tours of our new exhibition ‘Revolution, Propaganda, Art: Printmaking in Modern in China’. This retrospective includes a selection of prints chosen from every decade since the influential writer and critic Lu Xun (1881-1936) founded the Modern Woodcut Movement in (… continued)

Join us in this drop-in, family fun workshop. Explore our galleries and make fun and easy Halloween-themed origami decorations: ghosts, pumpkins, bats, witches and more! BANES Museums Week event

In 2014 the Museum completed an oral history project ‘Eastern Voices in the West Country’ which aimed to encourage cultural understanding amongst local communities and unveil the unexplored history of Chinese immigrants to Bath. The project captured personal stories of 11 immigrants from Chinese heritage who call Bath their home. Christina Chow, originally from Singapore, (… continued)

Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres This talk given by Sheung’s granddaughter, the art historian Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres, will explore the art and life of Nancy Sheung, one of the pioneering photographers of Asia. Nancy Sheung (Sheung Waichun 常惠珍 (1914-1979) was a Hong Kong photographer with a strong eye for capturing space and form. A mother, socialite and (… continued)

Dr Michael Pritchard In this talk Dr Michael Pritchard looks at the history of the Royal Photographic Society and the type of photography being exhibited in the years up to Nancy Sheung joining the RPS. We will also explore Nancy’s own exhibition history with the RPS and how photography moved – in part – from (… continued)

This event runs on Thursdays 25 August and 22 September. Experience the wonders of Japanese tea ceremony in the Museum galleries with Yukie Williams. Set in our tranquil gallery space, this intimate demonstration will give you an insight into the cultural traditions surrounding Japanese tea ceremony and the chance to taste Japanese matcha tea. Participants (… continued)

Speaker: Adrian Bradshaw, British Photojournalist The Youthful Energy of Changing China China 1980s: the beginning of the era of reform and opening up As part of the Global SinoPhoto Award (GSPA)2021 exhibition programme, we invite British photojournalist Adrian Bradshaw to share his experiences on documenting China’s transformation over the past three decades. Bradshaw’s photo, titled (… continued)

Experience the wonders of Japanese tea ceremony in the Museum galleries with Yukie Williams. Yukie has over 10 years’ experience practicing tea ceremony, known as sadō, inspired by her early years in Japan. This intimate demonstration will give you an insight into the cultural traditions surrounding Japanese tea ceremony and give you the chance to (… continued)

Max 12 People. In celebration of our ‘Judo: A Cultural History of Martial Art’ exhibition, join us in this exclusive workshop with Tony Samuels, our resident origamist, and learn to make his original design ‘Origami Blackbelt’. This free-standing, stylised martial artist is full of character and will prove a satisfying challenge for intermediate folders. All (… continued)

Max 16 people per hour Session one    10:00 – 11:00 Session two     11:00 – 12:00 Join our special family takeover event during half-team, explore the galleries with our latest family activity guides and join a drop-in martial arts origami activity inspired by the special exhibition – Judo: A Cultural History of Martial Art.  (… continued)

Dr Amanda Callan-Spenn ‘It is quite impossible to adequately conceal oneself in a bucket’: Women and the Japanese Martial Arts in the Early Twentieth Century This talk looks at some of the incredible stories of women travelling around the world and practising judo in the first half of the twentieth century; from bathing with the (… continued)

This course is designed for beginners to up the skills to intermediate level. (Maximum 12 people) Course Overview: Join us in this exclusive origami course designed by Tony Samuels, our resident origamist. In this four-part course, Tony will introduce you to the basic techniques and fundamental principles of origami, which will develop your confidence with (… continued)

Emily Chan, photo ©Marie-Lisette Cropp To celebrate the Year of the Rabbit this Lunar New Year, we have teamed up with Emily Xin Xin Chan, a talented chef in both Chinese and Western culinary, to tease your taste buds with three signature recipes. Emily was born and raised in Swindon by very traditional Chinese parents. (… continued)

(Max 10 families) Join our ever-popular family origami fun workshop to celebrate Lunar New Year. Guided by our resident origamist Tony Samuels, we will be making decorative lanterns and ox faces to celebrate the Year of the Ox. A pre-event pack including instructions, a materials list and joining details will be provided to all participating (… continued)