Bath's first public museum, The Holburne Museum, closed on 18 March. The independent Grade I-listed venue receives no government funding and has lost its regular income from tickets, events ...

This tiny portrait of the founder of the Holburne Museum was painted on a thin sheet of elephant ivory in 1827. Portrait miniatures were one of the many luxuries for sale in Georgian Bath ...

This family portrait is the largest painting in Bath by Bath's greatest artist, Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough moved to Bath from Ipswich in the late 1750s and took up residence by the Abbey.

The Holburne Museum in Bath will have a nightmare on its hands if its exhibition Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years is even remotely successful. There will be havoc. Punters will turn on the ...