ILKLEY Manor House opens to visitors again from Saturday, July 3 with a small exhibition ‘Super at 60’ looking back over the last ten years of the Manor House’s development as well as revisiting the exhibition ‘Fantastic at 50’ from 2011.
The Solar Gallery also reopens on July 3 with a new exhibition New Horizons. From July 24 the Ilkley Lockdown Quilt exhibition opens.
Perhaps most pleasing artefacts that were taken into safekeeping by Bradford Museums and Galleries in 2015 have been reinstalled in the large display cabinet in the Heritage Room in the house.
“It is wonderful to be able to open the house again,” said Sarah Thomas, Chair of the Manor House Trust. “It was a difficult decision not to open as soon as we were permitted to by Government but as a volunteer led organisation, we have to weigh up the safety and support to our volunteers with our desire to offer the public a rewarding visitor experience.”
The weekend before the Manor House opens there will be a Makers’ Fair in the courtyard on the weekend of June 26 and 27 with stalls
selling a range of contemporary art and crafts. The Fair will be open from 10.30am – 5pm on both days.
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