Friends Outings

  • Welcome pack containing a copy of Jeremy Myerson book, Gordon Russell: Designer of Furniture 1892-1992
  • Free access to the Museum
  • Access to new shows accompanied by the curator
  • Privileged access to the talks programme followed by dinner with the speaker
  • Programme of excursions to interesting venues
  • Garden party gathering in the summer
  • 10% discount for Museum publications
  • Museum e-newsletter

Annual subscription £25 per annum for a couple – or single person with a friend.  £12.50 for single person

Volunteers at the Gordon Russell Design Museum receive free membership of the Friends after six months service.

GRDM APPLICATION FORM

Post completed form, with your payment, to The Friends of the GRDM, c/o Gordon Russell Design Museum, 15 Russell Square, Broadway, Worcestershire WR12 7AP

email: friends@gordonrusselldesignmuseum@org

VISITS FOR 2017

 

Wednesday 21st June 2017

MADRESFIELD COURT, near Malvern. coach, entrance charge and tour. Lunch at own expense.

A moated house of considerable size Madresfield Court has its origins in the 16th century.   The interior, with many Arts and Crafts features, contains outstanding collections of furniture, pictures, porcelain and objets d’art, and a wonderful library designed by C.R. Ashbee (1863-1942) with many books printed by William Morris’ Kelmscott Press.

VISITS FOR 2017

Wednesday 19th July 2017

WINTERBOURNE HOUSE AND GARDENS Birmingham and ST MARY’S CHURCH, Lapworth, Warwickshire

We will leave Broadway at 9.15 am for a self-guided tour of a rare surviving example of a Edwardian suburban villa built in 1903 for the industrialist John Nettlefold.  Our visit will also include a 45 minute tour of the seven acre garden inspired by Gertrude Jekyll.

 

After a pub lunch in Lapworth, at your own expense, we will they pay a short visit to see the Hugh Birkett wood and the New Jerusalem stained glass windows at nearby St Mary’s Church.

VISITS FOR 2017

Wednesday 13th September 2017

BUSCOT PARK, GREAT COXWELL BARN, THE PORTWELL BENCH, Oxfordshire

Leaving Broadway at 9.00am we will visit Buscot, built in the 1780s and now the ancestral home of Lord Farringdon, for a guided private tour of the house by the curator.  Of particular interest is the Briar Rose series of paintings by Edward Burne-Jones in the Pre-Raphaelite room.  After lunch in Farringdon (at your own expense) we will have the opportunity to see the extraordinary Portwell Bench and its association with Salvador Dali.  The day will conclude with a brief visit to the nearby Coxwell Barn, which was much loved and much visited by William Morris.