Tullie House

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Tullie House
Cumberland

Tullie House
Location
Grid reference: NY397560
Location: 54°53’43"N, 2°56’26"W
City: Carlisle
History
Museum
Information
Owned by: Tullie House Museum
and Art Gallery Trust
Website: www.tulliehouse.co.uk

Tullie House is a Jacobean mansion house at 15, Abbey Street in the heart of Carlisle, the county town of Cumberland, which hosts the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery. The museum was opened in the house by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, after extensions had been added to the original house.

At first the building contained the museum and also a library, an art school and a technical school.[1][2]

The building, including the extensions, is a Grade I listed building,[1] and the wall, gates and railings in front of the house are separately Grade I listed.[3]

The two schools were moved in the 1950s and the library in 1986. The museum expanded into the city Guildhall in 1980 and with new space available from 1986 it underwent an extensive redevelopment over 1989-90 and again in 2000-01.

Since May 2011 the museum has been an independent charitable trust, the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust.[4]

Collections

The museum has large and eclectic collections of zoological, botanical and geological material.

The fine and decorative arts collections include works by Edward Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelite artists, as well as Stanley Spencer, Winifred Nicholson, Sheila Fell and Phil Morsman. There is collection of stringed instruments including a violin by Andrea Amati.

There were two Roman forts in Carlisle, one of which, Petriana, was the largest along the length of Hadrian's Wall. The museum houses important collections and temporary exhibitions associated with Hadrian's Wall. The human history collection also features permanent exhibitions dedicated to the Vikings and the Border Reivers.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Tullie House)

References