Visit the Museum during half-term Bath Museums Week, explore the collection and the temporary exhibition. Inspired by the East Asian Life exhibition, we will explore accessories used in Imperial China from beautiful hairpins to emperors’ hats and recreate them during this family workshop. If you prefer an afternoon session please click here. All family events (… continued)
Akiko Wakefield Join our popular Christmas origami workshop series, get creative with paper-folding techniques, and make your own decorations to take home. There are two types of origami crafts in each workshop and you can choose from one of them or both if you have previous experience. We have kept the most popular Christmas tree (… continued)
Akiko Wakefield Join our popular Christmas origami workshop series, get creative with paper-folding techniques, and make your own decorations to take home. There are two types of origami crafts in each workshop and you can choose from one of them or both if you have previous experience. We have kept the most popular Christmas tree (… continued)
Akiko Wakefield Join our popular Christmas origami workshop series, get creative with paper-folding techniques, and make your own decorations to take home. There are two types of origami crafts in each workshop and you can choose from one of them or both if you have previous experience. We have kept the most popular Christmas tree (… continued)
Dr Yu-ping Luk Basil Gray Curator: Chinese Paintings, Prints andCentral Asian Collection, British Museum The iridescent kingfisher feather had been regarded as a luxurious material and was desirable as decoration particularly on hairpins and headdresses. Trimmed into shape and fixed onto surfaces with glue, the feathers look like blue or turquoise enamel from afar. This (… continued)
Wenkai Zhang Incense is traditionally used in a wide range of Chinese cultural activities from religious ceremonies, worshipping ancestors, traditional medicine and in daily life. Incense culture and the development of incense ceremonies reached its height during the Song Dynasty, with nobles enjoying it as a popular pastime. Join us to discover a brief history (… continued)
Peng Su Join us to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and learn some basic techniques of Chinese ink painting. Lead by UK based Chinese artist Peng Su, learn to paint some of the most popular autumn subjects, such as gingko and chrysanthemum; create your own artwork to take home. No previous experience required, simply immerse yourself (… continued)
Entry to the Museum is free on the day. Small charges for activities apply. All proceeds will be donated to the victims of the natural disaster in the South Western part of Japan in 2018. Join us to celebrate the Japanese Star Festival Tanabata. Make origami decorations and hang your wish on a bamboo tree; (… continued)
The exquisite objects in the collection of the Museum of East Asian Art are now seen and enjoyed as wonderful works of art. However, many of them were originally utilitarian items used in daily life.
Play and get creative in our craft workshop and activities, all related to the celebration of the Lunar New Year. Learn more about this ancient tradition in these daily sessions. Booking required, Max 16 people incl. adults
Celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with us, hear and participate in the legend that inspired this ancient holiday, braid traditional bracelets and create fantastic paper boats. Booking required, Max 16 people. Please note: Children must accompanied by adults. Please note: the morning session has been cancelled.
Dr Hui Tang Exhibition Curator, National Maritime Museum In the eighteenth century, Canton was the place to for Europeans to buy porcelain. This talk draws attention to porcelain shops in Canton, describing what they looked like and how deals were done at the shops between Chinese merchants and European traders. Combining textual records and visual (… continued)
Amy Matthewson Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival to commemorate ancestors. People show respect to their ancestors by visiting their graves, offering food, tea or wine, burning incense and offering ‘joss paper’ representing money. They pray before their ancestors’ graves and ask for blessings on their families. This is also a time to (… continued)
Dr Elaine Buck Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS Most contact with Chinese Buddhism is limited to a brief encounter with some images on display in a museum context and appreciated primarily for their aesthetic appeal. This barely touches on, and possibly obscures, the role played by Buddhism in China, not to mention the impact of China (… continued)
Join us to celebrate the Lunar New Year and help us to raise funds to redevelop our galleries following the burglary last year. Led by UK based Chinese artist Su Peng, learn how to paint the most depicted subjects in Chinese painting and take home your own artwork. No previous experience required, simply immerse yourself (… continued)
Celebrate Lunar New Year and learn more about the Year of the Pig in this family fun event. Filled with imagination and wonder, come and join us to explore a series of East Asian folk stories about pigs. Booking required. Max 20 people If you prefer an afternoon session please click here
Join us on our origami workshops to celebrate the Year of the Pig and the arrival of spring. Lunar New Year in China also called ‘Spring Festival’. In Japan cherry blossom symbols the celebration of life and enjoy the present. In this workshop, we will be making cherry flower and turn them into New Year (… continued)
Join us on our origami workshops to celebrate the Year of the Pig and the arrival of spring. In Chinese culture lantern symbolise joy and bright future. No Chinese New Year celebration is completed without lanterns. In this workshop, we will be making colourful lanterns and turn them into New Year decorations. Wine and Chinese (… continued)
Join us on our series of origami workshops to celebrate the Year of the Pig and the arrival of spring. In Chinese culture pigs symbolise of wealth and fortune. In this workshop, we will be making piglets and turn them into New Year decorations. Wine and Chinese snacks served. Book in advance, Max 10 people (… continued)
MEAA’s oral history project ‘Eastern Voices in the West Country’ has been included in the Bath Black History Month programme as a representation of the ethnic minority community in Bath. In this event, we are going to re-visit our oral history project: discuss the research findings and the stories of 11 Chinese immigrants who made (… continued)
The Museum of East Asian Art’s collection of Chinese objects spans 7,000 years, from the Neolithic to modern times. We celebrate our 25th Anniversary with a special exhibition displaying the extraordinary human inventiveness and creativity in the development of Chinese art.
Join us on this fun family workshop for all ages, making origami tree decorations with recycled paper.
Party of MEAA Autumn Festival / Museums Week & Half-term Programme: Korean drama teacher, Jeiun Lee, will guide us in an afternoon of drum and prop making with recycled materials that will be used to accompany the beautiful story of the Good Brothers, a Korean harvest story.
Party of MEAA Autumn Festival / Museums Week & Half-term Programme: Listen to East Asian ghost stories and have some Halloween fun.