Attractions
World Heritage Centre, Roman Baths
Late Spring 2022
The Bath World Heritage Centre will be located in the heart of the city centre and will have free access for all. It will be filled with imaginative interpretation that will show people why Bath is so special and inspire and equip them with the information they need to go out and explore the amazing World Heritage City of Bath.
World Heritage Centre | The Roman Baths
The Cleveland Pools
Summer 2022
The Cleveland Pools, Britain’s oldest lido dating back over 200 years, is set to open once again! Restoration to make the facility fit for the future has started, to create a unique open-air public swimming pool, with the energy for heating the water coming from heat pumps in the adjacent river.
Bath Abbey Discovery Centre
Autumn 2022
Telling the story of the Abbey’s fascinating history through a brand-new Discovery Centre. Creating an inspiring new learning space for schoolchildren right up to mature students. Building a brand-new Song School; home for the Abbey’s choirs and where visiting musicians can rehearse and be made welcome.
Sydney Gardens Project
Spring 2022
Landscape and garden renovations and new children’s play area.
Jane Austen Centre new exhibition space
Now open
A new exhibition space has even more costumes for visitors to try on and includes Emma Thompson’s letters to the Centre, alongside exclusive behind the scenes pictures from Sense and Sensibility (1995) and a signed copy of her script. Actors are also on hand to help visitors discover Jane Austen’s life, show you how to write with a quill and ink and play traditional regency games.
Jane Austen Centre and Jane Austen Online Gift Shop – JaneAusten.co.uk
Events and Festivals
Bath Bach Festival 10-year anniversary
17-19 February 2022, it will take place in the Assembly Rooms and will also be fully livestreamed.
Classical Music Festival in Historic Bath (bathbachfest.co.uk)
Queens Platinum Jubilee
Bank Holiday Weekend June 2022
Plans consist of a city parade, a service at Bath Abbey and a picnic in Royal Victoria Park – further details to be announced soon.
Bath Festivals
Bath’s music and literature festival will run 13-22 May 2022 with the Finale weekend later in the summer.
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Jools Holland at THE PIG near Bath
Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra comes to THE PIG-near Bath for their Smoked & Uncut Festival - Saturday 9th July
Join the party! (smokedanduncut.com)
Maisie Adam at Komedia Bath
Thursday 29 September 2022
Maisie will be bringing her brand-new stand-up comedy BUZZED to Bath.
The 7 Hills Festival
September 2022
Launched in 2021, The 7 Hills Festival celebrated Americana music in the grounds of a Georgian mansion on the edge of the city. Plans for 2022 including making the event bigger and involving more of the city.
Garden Theatre Festival
A brand-new open-air theatre festival taking place in the gardens of The Holburne Museum.
Dates to be announced soon.
Garden Theatre Festival - Back, bigger and better for 2022!
Bath Christmas Market – celebrating 20 years in 2022
This year the festive fixture will run for 18 days from November 24 to December 11 as part of the wider ‘Bath at Christmas’ events. More than 170 chalets will sell a range of seasonal gifts, food and drink and the proposed site will have a similar footprint to 2018/19 with the re-introduction of the areas around Bath Abbey.
Exhibitions
The Holburne
The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics
28 January - 8 May 2022
In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Holburne Museum will present a major new exhibition featuring 25 famous Tudor portraits.
In The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics visitors will come face-to-face with the five Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I - who remain some of the most familiar figures from English history, not least because these instantly recognisable portraits have preserved their likenesses for 500 years. The exhibition includes some of the most famous images of British painting, including the ‘Darnley’ and ‘Armada’ portraits of Elizabeth I.
Love Life: David Hockney’s Drawings
27 May - 18 September 2022
Responding to a question about the place of love in his life, David Hockney replied: “I love my work. And I think the work has love, actually ... I love life. I write it at the end of letters – ‘Love life, David Hockney.”
This exhortation has not only inspired the exhibition’s title but also its content. Hockney’s delight in the world is no better demonstrated than in the drawings he made in the late 1960s and ‘70s – the subject of this show – in which we see his extraordinary power of observation and skill in using tiny, mundane details to help capture a situation or the character of a sitter or a place.
Hockney’s drawings of this time are some of the greatest bodies of draftsmanship in the whole canon of western art. In pencil, coloured crayon and, especially, pen and ink, Hockney captures the look and character of his subject with the utmost economy. As Love Life demonstrates, a few lines can perfectly describe the fall of someone’s clothing, the impression of a head on a pillow, or the character of a room or situation. The exhibition reveals his delight in the world around him and the way he sees deeply and then condenses a given scene in the most concise way, like visual poetry.
Rodin - Degas
3 September 2022 - 2 January 2023
Bringing together two towering figures in modern European art: Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) and Edgar Degas (1834–1917), this exhibition focuses on the artists’ representation of the human body and their expression of its energy through both dynamic and static poses.
Victoria Art Gallery
From Hogarth to Hodgkin: Our Best Prints
5 March – 5 May 2022
This wonderful exhibition showcases the best of the gallery’s print collection. You’ll be able to the diversity of their prints, with works on display spanning 700 years. Before industrial techniques came along in the 19th century, artists could only make prints in limited quantities. Yet the process enabled them to reach a wider audience with paintings. Connoisseurs collected them with enthusiasm bordering on mania. In today’s image-saturated world, it is hard to appreciate how precious prints would be seemed in the past.
Created by dozens of different artists and with a cornucopia of subjects, including landscape, satire. Portraiture and views of Georgian Bath, there will be please all art lovers. From Hogarth to Hodgkin features prints by old masters such as Cranach and Durer, but brings the story right up to the present day, with works by Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker and Paula Rego.
From Hogarth to Hodgkin: Our Best Prints | Events at The Victoria Art Gallery (victoriagal.org.uk)
The American Museum & Gardens
Dress to Redress: Exploring Native American Material Culture
19 March to 3 July 2022
The American Museum & Gardens presents Dress to Redress, an exhibition of the work of contemporary Anishinabe artist Celeste Pedri-Spade, from 19 March to 3 July. Featuring a series of spectacular wearable-art pieces, personal artefacts and photography, alongside historical items from the Museum’s collection, the exhibition will demonstrate the continuing legacy and profound importance of visual and material culture. This is the first time Celeste Pedri-Spade’s work will be exhibited in Europe.
Exhibitions - American Museum & Gardens
Hotels
Hampton by Hilton Hotel
A brand-new 202 room Hampton By Hilton in the city centre opens early March close to the train station, Roman Baths and Thermae Bath Spa. The hotel will have a gym, meeting space and a relaxed open-plan contemporary lounge area with large screen televisions. Breakfast will be served buffet style and the hotel will have 11 accessible rooms.
The Tin Shed
Brand new glamping with foraging experiences and a personal chef opening Spring 2022 – more information to follow soon.
Bath on Screen
Bridgerton Season 2 – 25 March 2022 featuring The Holburne and focusing on the story of Anthony Bridgerton.
Jane Austen’s Persuasion with Dakota Johnson is due to air on Netflix Summer 2022 – filming locations include Bath Street, Hot Bath Street, Royal Crescent, Brock Street and Gravel Walk.
WONKA with Timothee Chalamet – due to air Spring 2023
For Foodies
Square grill restaurant and piano bar overlooks Abbey Churchyard. Square offers breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, and the menu will feature popular dishes from around the world - all prepared in house from locally sourced produce.
Crescent Restaurant & Bar has opened on Margarets Buildings. Nestled in the beautiful side street between the Royal Crescent and The Circus, Crescent Restaurant & Bar will serve a fresh all-day menu, inspired by life-long culinary experiences of husband-and-wife duo Simon and Leanne, who strive to deliver a quality dining experience what-ever time of the day or night. Menus will be in-keeping with the seasons and offering a variety of influenced dishes, the restaurant will offer a regularly changing specials menu, as well as breakfasts and tapas and cocktails.
Claytons Grill by Robert Clayton will be opening in The Gainsborough Hotel & Spa at the beginning of March 2022. The restaurant will serve high quality cuisine - inspired by Mediterranean and modern French flavours, with warm, hospitable, and relaxed service.
New Shops
Goodness Grazers, an independent luxury caterer specialising in creating delicious grazing platters for events, celebrations and business has just opened its first shop.
Eight Holland Street, the design studio selling artworks, furniture and textiles will be opening a new premises on Margaret’s Buildings.
Holloways of Ludlow – the lighting and furniture store comes to Bath this Spring with a new store on Milsom Street.
Further Ahead
Bath Fashion Museum will move from its home at The Assembly Rooms in 2023. The Assembly Rooms will be taken back inhouse by The National Trust and a new Georgian visitor attraction will be developed for 2024 – details tbc.
Fragrance Hotels are redeveloping The Mineral Water Hospital building in the centre of Bath with 160 rooms – likely to complete 2024 at the earliest.
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