Bring our exciting summer exhibition to your venue with our new 'Out and About' project.
Combining the latest technology, handling objects and experienced facilitators we bring the experience of visiting Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery to you. Our 3D digital walk-through will immerse you in the surroundings of the museum and art gallery while our expert facilitator will use images, audio-description and handling objects to bring the story and art works into vivid reality.
Out and About has been designed to bring Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery to those who might otherwise face barriers to visiting in person. We feel that everyone should be able to benefit from and enjoy this unique exhibition.
To find out more and to book a visit please email: education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk or call 01730 262601 and ask to speak with Ryan.
Cost: Our standard Out and About cost is £120.00 but community bursaries are available - contact the museum for more inforamtion.
About 'Peggy Guggenheim - Petersfield to Palazzo'
Delve into the extraordinary life of Peggy Guggenheim, the 20th-century self-proclaimed 'art addict' who called Yew Tree Cottage near Petersfield home from 1934 to 1939.
Before buying the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal in Venice in 1949, for five years (between 1934 and 1939), world-famous 20th-century patron and collector of modern art Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) lived at Yew Tree Cottage near Petersfield.
Featuring a focused selection of artworks by artists who the self-described ‘art addict’, knew and supported, Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo will show paintings, prints and sculptures by leading British and European modern artists including Jean Arp (1886-1966), Max Ernst (1891-1976), Henry Moore (1898-1986), Rita Kernn-Larsen and Yves Tanguy (1900-1955), amongst others. A variety of photographs, contemporary fashion items and literature will give further context to the fascinating life and times of Peggy Guggenheim.
The exhibition at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery aims to explore the multitude of literary, artistic, and intellectual figures of the period with whom Guggenheim interacted and reveal the fascinating untold story of her life in the town and neighbouring West Sussex through her family, friends, and lovers.
The exhibition includes loans from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice – whose Director, Karole P. B. Vail, is Peggy Guggenheim’s elder granddaughter.
Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo is made possible thanks to the generous support of: