A THORNTON gallery will become a “curiosity shop” celebrating the exhibits in a Keighley museum next month.
South Square Gallery’s next exhibition will be inspired by Cliffe Castle Museum.
Artists have been working with the gallery and museum to create replicas of, and art inspired by, the diverse artefacts on display in the museum.
Built in the Victorian era as the home of Victorian millionaire and textile manufacturer Henry Isaac Butterfield, Cliffe Castle (pictured), in Cliffe Castle Park, became a museum in 1959. It contains items such as a two headed calf, an Egyptian mummy, a live bee hive and items from Keighley’s past.
Artists Amelia Crouch, Luke Drozd and Katch Skinner are studying the museum’s exhibits and will create pieces for the Cliffe Castle Curiosity Shop exhibition, which will run at South Square from May 5 to June 30.
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