The Arts & Crafts Cotswolds app by The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum offers a tour of the collection at The Wilson and a tour of Arts and Crafts buildings, museums, historic houses throughout the Cotswold area. Discover the history of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds starting with William Morris and coming up to date with contemporary makers.
Discover 50 key objects in the internationally important collection at The Wilson through a tour of the Arts and Crafts Movement Gallery, exploring them through images, text, film and 3D. Items range from one of William Morris’s earliest pieces, a beautiful piano by C R Ashbee, pieces by Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley, as well as beautiful jewellery, silver and glass, much of it made in the area.
If you are visiting the Cotswolds – or live in the area – you can also take a tour of the rich Arts and Crafts heritage in the region, exploring historic churches and houses, as well as museums and buildings built and used by the Arts and Crafts designers themselves in a tour of key places around the Cotswolds: Cheltenham, Gloucester, Chipping Campden, Broadway, Winchcombe, Kelmscott, Sapperton, Painswick, Chalford, Selsley, Kempley and Brockworth. Find out about the designers who lived and worked in the area through The Wilson’s collection.
Play the quote game and discover the words and thoughts of these important designers – and share them with your friends on social media sites.
The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, located in central Cheltenham, holds an internationally important collection of Arts and Crafts Movement furniture, jewellery, metalwork and other decorative arts. It holds over 500 pieces of Arts and Crafts design and also holds the last intact Arts and Crafts library, the Emery Walker Library. The Wilson has recently reopened with a new extension of 2 new temporary exhibition galleries, a new paintings gallery and a new gallery for our archive collections. Find out more about us on our websites: www.thewilson.org.uk and our dedicated Arts and Crafts website www.artsandcraftsmuseum.org.uk