Wainwright: a love letter to the Lakeland fells

I've written here before about the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery and its marvellously eclectic collection and more recently about Grandest Views: Models of Lakeland Exhibition. Well that exhibition comes to an end soon and the next one starts on 23rd May. Its title is "Wainwright: a love letter to the Lakeland fells".

The Museum and Art Gallery with Fitz Park behind

The museum has been looking for some help with funding the exhibition using a crowdfunding campaign and that's where you come in.

Here's their video.

They're using indiegogo as their crowdfunding site and you can find that here. It explains what it's all about.

And there's lots of lovely perks on offer if you make a suitable pledge: tickets to the exhibition, fish and chips, chocolates, signed copies of Clive Hutchby's book The Wainwright Companion, 10% discount on holiday cottages, and a variety of other prizes including a guided fell walk by Terry Abraham.

If you can help with a donation (we have at WalkLakes) then that would be great as the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery is a lovely place and this exhibition sounds like it's going to be a "must see" for fell walkers. Sadly the museum is now, like everywhere else at the moment it seems, being starved of funds. Having secured a large grant for the makeover, mainly from the Heritage Lottery Fund, they tell me they have been left with no help from Allerdale Borough Council for ongoing costs: they have to fund themselves and this exhibition is no exception.

Useful links:

• Keswick Museum and Art Gallery leaflet (Adobe/PDF, 578KB)
• Keswick Museum and Art Gallery on Facebook

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