Bradford Industrial Museum Exhibitions
The museum site is a former Worsted Mill complete with mill manager’s house with Victorian décor and a terrace of back-to-back houses showing how mill workers lived at different times in history. Inside the Mill itself are working displays of textile machinery, steam power, engineering, printing and motor vehicles, along with an exciting temporary exhibitions programme. Bradford’s Working Horses also live at Bradford Industrial Museum and the horse emporium displays show how important horses were to industry.
Current and upcoming exhibitions
24 July -19 Sep 2010
A Solo Show Gail Rosenthrone
An exhibition of eclectic paintings. Gail Rosenthrone holds an impressionistic style using a mix of genres ranging from animals to coastal scenes. A Bradford Industrial Museum cafe exhibition.
21 August - 31 October 2010
Island to Island: by Tim Smith
Photographs taken over the last sixty years combined with recorded stories and memories. Explores the relationship between Britain and the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Barbados. The photographs are a combination of old family photographs, historical studio portraits and some taken by regional photographer Tim Smith. Also includes a set of studio portraits taken during the 1950s and 1960s when many Caribbean people were leaving to seek work in the UK,many settled in Bradford; a final set taken by Tim over the last 20 years in both UK and the Caribbean combined with a compilation of music.
24 November 2010 - 16 January 2011
Art Work From The Marie Curie Centre
Steve Davies is an art therapist at the Marie Curie Centre Bradford. This
exhibition show cases the art work by cancer patients at the Centre, introducing art into the lives of the patients as a mechanism to express a changing point in their lives. A Bradford Industrial Museum cafe exhibition.
24 March 2010 - 16 May 2011
Reflections and Angles Beryl Robinson
Photography capturing the different angles of buildings. Offering a different
view point and perspective of our surrounding architecture, the images make you stop and re-adjust. A Bradford Industrial Museum cafe exhibition.
9 April - 12 June 2011
Football: When the FA Cup Came Home
2011 marks the centenary of Bradford City's FA Cup winning season. The
exhibition illustrates how the team, officials, supporters and the wider community played their part in arguably themost famous and popular triumph in Bradford's history – a victory made even more remarkable by the club becoming the very first recipient of the current trophy, designed and produced by Fattorini's of Bradford. Charts the footballing journey to FA cup success - from a cold January afternoon in New Brompton to a grand day out and disappointment in a Crystal Palace Final against the mighty Newcastle United, culminating in victory at Old Trafford, Manchester, in a hard fought replay.
