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The Museum of Costume
This museum tells the fascinating story of fashion over the last 400 years with the help of costumes drawn its collection of 30,000 original items.
Bennett Street
Tel: (01225) 477 173.
Website: www.museumofcostume.co.uk
Holburne Museum of Art
This is a beautiful museum set within the park of Sydney Gardens, originally founded to display the collection of Sir William Holburne. The silver, porcelain, glass, furniture, portrait miniatures and paintings by masters such as Turner and Gainsborough are all impressive.
Great Pulteney Street
Tel: (01225) 466 669.
Website: www.bath.ac.uk/holburne
Prior Park Landscape Garden
Just 10 minutes from Bath city centre lies this beautiful garden, created in the 18th century by local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph Allen with advice from the poet Alexander Pope and 'Capability'Brown. The garden is set in a sweeping valley with magnificent views of the city of Bath. Interesting features include a Palladian bridge and three lakes. The restoration of Pope's Wilderness, including a cascade and gothic temple, will be complete in 2007.
Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
Tel: 01225 833422.
Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
This museum tells the fascinating story of fashion over the last 400 years with the help of costumes drawn its collection of 30,000 original items.
Bennett Street
Tel: (01225) 477 173.
Website: www.museumofcostume.co.uk
Holburne Museum of Art
This is a beautiful museum set within the park of Sydney Gardens, originally founded to display the collection of Sir William Holburne. The silver, porcelain, glass, furniture, portrait miniatures and paintings by masters such as Turner and Gainsborough are all impressive.
Great Pulteney Street
Tel: (01225) 466 669.
Website: www.bath.ac.uk/holburne
Prior Park Landscape Garden
Just 10 minutes from Bath city centre lies this beautiful garden, created in the 18th century by local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph Allen with advice from the poet Alexander Pope and 'Capability'Brown. The garden is set in a sweeping valley with magnificent views of the city of Bath. Interesting features include a Palladian bridge and three lakes. The restoration of Pope's Wilderness, including a cascade and gothic temple, will be complete in 2007.
Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
Tel: 01225 833422.
Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
