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Enjoy free entry because ‘Heritage is Open’!

  Visit us on Friday 15, Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September to gain free entry to Gainsborough’s House! Gainsborough’s House, birthplace museum of Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), re-opened in November 2022 after a £10m development project, majority funded by the…
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Welcome our new Director, Dr Steven Parissien

  We are thrilled to welcome our new Director, Dr Steven Parissien to Gainsborough’s House. If you see Steven around, please do say hello! I am delighted to join the Gainsborough’s House team and help promote the invaluable resource of…
An image taken at the Annual Friends Garden Party at Gainsborough's House in 2023. There are lots of groups of people enjoying themselves in the sun.

Friends & Volunteers Garden Party a triumph for all

  We are thrilled with the success of our first Annual Friends Garden Party since Gainsborough’s House re–opened in November 2022. Due to the high-volume of Friend memberships being taken up since re–opening, we had to do things differently from…
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The Wild Escape at Gainsborough’s House

  Today, Gainsborough’s House has announced that it will be joining The Wild Escape, a major new project uniting hundreds of museums with schools with families to find nature in museums. Led by national art charity Art Fund and with…
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