Botanical Treasures: new exhibition at the Museum of Royal Worcester celebrates the flowers and fruits on porcelain.

The Gloucestershire Society for Botanical Illustration (GSBI) have created artwork during lockdown for a new botanical art exhibition, in partnership with the Museum of Royal Worcester. ‘Botanical Treasures – inspiration from nature in porcelain and on paper’, opens 27th May to 31st October 2021, alongside artist demonstrations, adult and children painting workshops, and talks on the history of botanical art. The exhibition is supported by the Finnis Scott Foundation Botanical Art Award 2020.

The Museum looks after the largest collection of Worcester porcelain in the world, together with the unique factory and design archive.  The world-class collection tells the stories of the people who made and enjoyed these extraordinary objects, celebrating 250 years of colourful stories about ceramic design, local skill and innovation. The Museum reopens on Thursday 20th May 2021, part-week, Thursdays to Sundays and seven days during holiday periods.

About the Museum of Royal Worcester

An independent charitable trust looking after the largest collection of Worcester porcelain in the world, over 10,000 objects, and the important factory archive. It was established in 1946 by Charles Dyson Perrins to make this design heritage available to the public as a permanent exhibition. It reopened in June 2018 following a 3-year £1.7M refurbishment project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund that completely refreshed and reinterpreted the displays.