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Date: June 11, 2007

Opening of Court Barn Museum

Saturday 28th July The Museum opens it’s doors for the first timeÂ

Housed in a 17th century historic barn, but using the very latest display methods, Court Barn Museum celebrates and records the story of the Arts and Crafts movement and its legacy in Chipping Campden. A story of how a small North Cotswold town became a centre for designers and craftpeople of national and international reputation.

Some of these people who chose to live and work in the North Cotswolds are:-

C R Ashbee - who moved his craft workshops, the Guild of Handicraft, from the East End of London to Chipping Campden in 1902.

Gordon Russell - who made furniture in Broadway and became a Director of the Design Council.

Michael Cardew - who started Winchcombe Pottery in 1926.

Robert Welch - a silversmith and industrial designer who worked in Chipping Campden all his life.

The museum will have a permanent exhibition of silver, jewellery, ceramics, sculpture, industrial design, bookbinding, printing and stained glass plus exhibits lent by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

The Museum has been created by a group of local enthusiasts and the Guild of Handicraft Trust working with skilled professionals. It cost £1.3 million, of which two thirds came from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and the rest from grant-giving trusts and individuals in the UK and the United States.

The Museum will be open 10.30am to 5.30pm Tuesday to Saturday and 11.30am to 5.30pm on Sundays. The Museum will be closed on Mondays.

Admission will be £3.75 with children under 16 free.Â

Little Gidding B&B is only 2 miles away from Court Barn Museum so come and stay with us and experience this new, stylish and ground breaking exhibition as well as visiting all the craftspeople who are still designing and creating in the North Cotswolds.

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