Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein - Opening June 2021
A World First visitor attraction opening in Bath this summer, the first horror experience dedicated to author Mary Shelley and her most infamous creation, Frankenstein. Mary Shelley wrote the majority of this timeless classic whilst living in lodgings situated in Abbey Churchyard, Bath, in 1816, where the iconic Pump Room is now located.
Unearth the extraordinary author Mary Shelley’s darkest past, as you explore her tragic and complex life and experience the story of Frankenstein, as relevant today as it was 200 years ago. Enter Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein and tread warily through the many themed rooms, corridors and dark passageways. Venture into the bleak, dank rooms of the basement, if you dare, but keep alert, to avoid an encounter with the world’s favourite monster. Scarily atmospheric, multi-sensory and fully immersive, Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein delivers an unnervingly fun, entertaining and thoroughly unique experience like no other.
World Heritage Centre - opening late summer 2021
The Archway Project will convert former Victorian spa buildings close to the Roman Baths into a new learning and World Heritage visitor centre with cutting-edge facilities. Due to open this summer, the project will transform the learning programme, offering more activities and events for visitors, and create stimulating spaces for schools and groups, providing a hands-on and accessible learning experience set among Roman remains.
Bridgerton Tours
Take in the Bridgerton sights with Brit Movie Tours as they show you round the filing locations on a two-hour promenade (£15 per adult), or book Bath Adventures’ Bridgerton Sights & Music Tour where you’ll be given over-ear headphones as a guide takes you through Bath, sharing locations, behind-the-scenes gossip and music from the show (from £15). The two-hour Bridgerton experience from Bath Walking Tours is led by a Blue Badge Tourist Guide with in-depth knowledge of the city. Re-live the scenes from the series as you see where they were filmed and hear about the history of the buildings (£150 per group).
Bath Abbey’s Footprint Project – completing 2021
The Footprint Project will preserve the historic Abbey and open it up in new ways – to be enjoyed in its full glory by future generations, worshippers, and visitors alike. It sees the reimagining of the space to create comfortable, flexible spaces for all, a new Discovery Centre and learning space that will inspire and tell the story of the Abbey, the installation of an eco-friendly heating system using energy from Bath’s natural hot springs, floor repairs and a brand-new Song School – home for the Abbey’s choirs and where visiting musicians can rehearse and be made welcome.
Holburne Museum, Canaletto: Painting Venice - from May 2021
Originally due to open on 12th June last year, Canaletto: Painting Venice will now be opening as soon as possible in 2021, running until September. This extraordinary group of 24 paintings – the largest complete set of paintings of Venice by the Italian artist Canaletto (1697–1768), acquired by the 4th Duke of Bedford while on his Grand Tour in 1731 – usually hangs in the dining room at Woburn Abbey. This is the first time they will leave their home in almost three centuries.
Shoephoria! Fashion Museum Bath, 18 May 2021
A world-class selection of more than 100 pairs of shoes from The Fashion Museum’s collection will go on display from 18th May. The exhibition featuring highlights from the museums 3,000 pair collection will demonstrate the evolution of shoe design over the last 300 years - from some of the oldest pairs from Her Majesty Queen Mary to more modern examples by Vivienne Westwood and Jimmy Choo.
Iford Manor – new restaurant, renovations, tours and audio guides Spring 2021
Iford Manor reopens this Spring with a new cafe and restaurant providing lunches, afternoon tea and snacks to garden visitors and walkers, with large outside seating area and views over the valley. The Cloister and Summerhouse has undergone extensive restoration work, while the gardens have been updated with the replanting of many borders, cypress, and cherry trees. Monthly Behind the Scenes tours with Head Gardener Troy Scott Smith and team will take place - learn expert tips as to what to do in your garden each month, whilst seeing the ongoing restoration work at Iford and visit areas usually closed to the public. Look out for Champagne evening tours with owner William Cartwright-Hignett; and Audio-guides (in numerous languages) to help uncover the many layers of history, architecture, design and horticulture at Iford.
The Great Bath Feast is back!
Gracing the streets of Bath from 24 to 26 September 2021, this FREE event will celebrate the best locally sourced food and drink on offer, as well as culinary connoisseurs from far and wide. Milsom Street will be closed to traffic for the occasion. Visitors can expect chef demos, a food and drink trail and the Milsom Street Market with market stalls and pop-ups from some of Bath’s incredible local suppliers, along with sumptuous food from further afield.
Sri-Lankan taste sensation as The Coconut Tree opens in Bath spring 2021
Pioneering Sri-Lankan street food restaurant will be opening its seventh restaurant in Broad Street later this Spring. The Coconut Tree’s take on the cuisine is made up of smaller tapas-style dishes embracing plants, fish and meat - it’s an abundant menu that naturally offers something for everyone.
The menu at The Coconut Tree is made up of smaller tapas-style plates including ‘Hot Battered Spicy Cuttlefish’; ‘Hoppers’ – bowl shaped coconut pancakes served with sambal & Sri Lankan Salsa, ‘Cashew Nuts’ and green peas soaked and cooked in coconut cream; and ‘Cheesy Colombo’ – cheese cubes fried and mixed Colombo style.
Cheese Please – A brand new cheese tour with Savouring Bath launches spring 2021
Local food tour company Savouring Bath will be launching a short 1.5hr tour with tutored tastings and pairings, including a range of different cheeses to sample, plus commentary on Bath’s culinary history. Initially the tour will run 3 times a day on Saturdays with a maximum of 8 people at £40pp.
Victoria Art Gallery, Kurt Jackson: Biodiversity 18 May 2021
A dedicated environmentalist and true polymath, Kurt Jackson’s holistic approach to his subject seamlessly blends art and politics providing a springboard to create a hugely varied body of work unconstrained by format or scale.
Jackson's artistic practice ranges from his trademark visceral plein-air sessions to studio work and embraces an extensive range of materials and techniques including mixed media, large canvases, printmaking and sculpture. Biodiversity will include works made in a number of different locations reflecting their own specific biodiversity. Some will have a huge range of life forms, some will be barren, some will be dominated by nature, and some will be ‘man made’. With a series of paintings, sculptures and mixed media works the exhibition will aim to show what an amazingly biodiverse world we still live in, and how this is changing.
Victoria Art Gallery - An Unholy Trinity: Lucian Freud, John Minton and Adrian Ryan 10 July – 19 September 2021
This unique exhibition will celebrate the life of Adrian Ryan (1920-1998) and his friends John Minton (1917-1957) and Lucian Freud (1922-2011). In the tight community of the art world of pre-war London, the three artists were colleagues and friends. As ambitious figurative painters with – at first – hopeful and promising career trajectories, all three explored a relaxed intimacy behind closed doors, especially during the war years.
After Minton's suicide Adrian and Lucian drifted apart. This intimate relationship may contribute towards the significance of the lonely figure in their work. This theme will be explored in the exhibition alongside these three artists’ developing practise, from some of their earliest paintings, but not beyond Johnny Minton's death in 1957. The exhibition, which will be accompanied by a catalogue and a specially commissioned film, is a collaboration with Falmouth Art Gallery and has been generously supported by the Art Fund and the Garfield Weston Foundation.
The Bath Reggae Festival – 21 August 2021
From Kingston, Jamaica to Kensington Meadows, this will be Bath’s very first annual reggae festival. Under one umbrella, people of all ages are welcomed for a taste of Caribbean culture, sound-tracked by the music of island life. Expect reggae, lovers rocks, R&B and more, celebrating sounds both old and new. Featuring the best in live music, Bath Reggae Festival 2021 will host performances by seasoned legends Maxi Priest, Aswad, Big Mountain, Dawn Penn, Laid Blak and Wayne Wonder. Up-and-coming talent Hollie Cook, Aleighcia Scott and Tashina Muzik complete the billing on Saturday 5th June. It's an event for all the family, plus, there will be plenty of culinary delights to try, from rum and cocktail bars to jerk chicken vans.
20 Years of Bath Christmas Market
Bath Christmas Market will be celebrating 20 years this year (after being cancelled in 2020), so look out for lots of surprises and special festive activities to mark this milestone!
No.15 Great Pulteney by GuestHouse, Bath Opening 17 May 2021
GuestHouse’s debut project reimagines a beloved Bath classic, sitting pretty on one of the UK’s grandest streets. No.15 Great Pulteney by GuestHouse will preserve all of the original charm of No.15 – with bags of added GuestHouse flavour. The brothers have recruited acclaimed British designer, Martin Hulbert, to reboot the interiors he originally conceived. New lures for lucky visitors come in the form of a revamped spa, a duo of decadent suites, and a restaurant that sparkles from a mellow makeover and champions ‘Wild British’ cuisine. In keeping with GuestHouse’s fun-loving ethos, there will be plenty of playful extras: from vinyl record players to hand-made Georgian doll houses that double up as help-yourself pantries, stocked with tempting local goodies. Guests can explore genteel Bath with help from the Guest List: a curated edit of in-the-know tips, plus handy illustrated maps.
The Yard in Bath, opening 1st June 2021
The Yard in Bath has fourteen character filled bedrooms set around a historic courtyard. Once a coaching inn, the hotel has been restored with each bedroom purposefully unique in its design. Nestled in the heart of Bath, it’s an escape in the centre of the city.
Clean Air Zone
Bath’s Clean Air Zone is set to launch on Monday 15 March 2021 as the first charging clean air zone in England outside of London. It will not charge private cars. The clean air zone will operate in the city centre 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Charges will apply to pre-euro 6/VI diesel and pre-euro 4 petrol vehicles, except private cars and motorbikes. Higher emission taxis, private hire vehicles, minibuses, LGVs and vans (including pick-ups and campervans) will be charged £9 a day while higher emission buses, coaches and HGVs will be charged £100 a day.
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