Museums bring art to the elderly

A LONDON art house teamed up with The Bowes Museum to take exhibitions to care homes in Barnard Castle. 

The Wallace Collection, at Hertford House, in London, is currently hosting an El Greco to Goya exhibition with Spanish paintings on loan from The Bowes Museum.

Now the museums have extended their partnership to put on an outreach programme to take the museums to people who would not otherwise be able to visit a museum.

Run by Julia Dunn, of the The Bowes Museum, and Sarah Fairbairn, of The Wallace Collection, the outreach went to King’s Court, Manor House, Charles Dickens Lodge and Beaconsfield care homes earlier this month.

Ms Fairbairn said: “It went really well. It was good fun and people were really engaged.

“It was nice that people who are physically unable to go to the museum have the museum come to them.”