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Patron Spotlight: Stacey Halls Featured NewsNews

Patron Spotlight: Stacey Halls

Bestselling Author Stacey Halls Featured in Lancashire Life We are thrilled to share that our…

Mandy20 September 2026

Welcome Brown & Brown Insurance Brokers Company NewsFeatured NewsNews

Welcome Brown & Brown Insurance Brokers

The Whitaker Welcomed Brown & Brown as one of our Corporate Sponsors earlier this year!…

Mandy18 September 2026

The Award-Winning Rossendale Pride Returns This July 2026! EventsFeatured NewsLGBTNews

The Award-Winning Rossendale Pride Returns This July 2026!

We have some incredibly exciting news to share! The award-winning Rossendale Pride Festival is officially…

Mandy14 July 2026

Nellie The Elephant HistoryNews

Nellie The Elephant

Exploring Musea Animalia: How Leanne Clydesdale is Rethinking Animals in Museums What role do museums…

Mandy10 July 2026

Gallery of Sanctuary Award AwardsFeatured NewsNewsVolunteers

Gallery of Sanctuary Award

The Whitaker has been recognised for its commitment to welcoming refugees, asylum seekers and migrants after receiving…

Mandy4 June 2026

Welcome Thomson FM Consultants Company NewsFeatured NewsNews

Welcome Thomson FM Consultants

The Whitaker Welcomes Thomson FM Consultants as one of our new Corporate Sponsors!   We…

Mandy4 June 2026

Join Our Board Featured NewsNews

Join Our Board

Join Our Board: Help Shape the Future of The Whitaker Are you passionate about culture,…

Mandy4 June 2026

Artist’s Brief Reframing History: The Whiteheads & The Weaver’s Uprising, Rawtenstall 1826 Weaver’s Uprising Bicentenary blogNews

Artist’s Brief Reframing History: The Whiteheads & The Weaver’s Uprising, Rawtenstall 1826 Weaver’s Uprising Bicentenary

Project Overview As part of a borough wide project commemorating the Weaver’s Uprising of 1826,…

andy16 October 2025

BRITISH TEXTILE BIENNIAL 2025 – Headline programme announced for this year’s festival blogNews

BRITISH TEXTILE BIENNIAL 2025 – Headline programme announced for this year’s festival

This October British Textile Biennial (BTB) explores invention and innovation in textile production, through indigenous knowledge to…

andy16 October 2025

The Whitaker Welcomes Acclaimed Actor Jane Horrocks to Patron Family blogNews

The Whitaker Welcomes Acclaimed Actor Jane Horrocks to Patron Family

The Whitaker Welcomes Acclaimed Actor Jane Horrocks to Patron Family   The Whitaker Museum and Art…

andy14 August 2025

The Whitaker Museum Announces First Patron: Stacey Halls, Best-Selling Author and Rossendale Native blogNews

The Whitaker Museum Announces First Patron: Stacey Halls, Best-Selling Author and Rossendale Native

Acclaimed author kicks of local museum sustainability and advocacy efforts.  The Whitaker Museum and Art…

andy14 August 2025

Tracks Through Time, Diane Muldowney CollectionNews

Tracks Through Time, Diane Muldowney

Tracks Through Time - By Diane Muldowney. At The Whitaker Art Gallery and Museum. Diane…

andy31 October 2025

Rossendale Pride Returns – Bigger, Bolder, and Brighter for 2025! EventsFeatured NewsNews

Rossendale Pride Returns – Bigger, Bolder, and Brighter for 2025!

Spectrum Inclusion and The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery to host Rossendale Pride 2025. Following…

andy8 February 2026

The Whitaker Launches Two Bold New Exhibitions This June: Apologues by Luce Bergman and Dykeland by Sarah-Joy Ford ArtblogexhibitionFeatured NewsNews

The Whitaker Launches Two Bold New Exhibitions This June: Apologues by Luce Bergman and Dykeland by Sarah-Joy Ford

Luce Bergman; Apologues and Dykeland; Sarah-Joy Ford will launch Saturday 7th June. The Whitaker Museum…

andy14 August 2025

The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery Announces New Hospitality Contractor and Exciting Café Concept Bar & kitchenblogCompany NewsFeatured NewsNews

The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery Announces New Hospitality Contractor and Exciting Café Concept

The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery is delighted to announce a new chapter in its…

andy1 July 2025

What’s in a name? Demystifying the Chatterton Massacre David Gordon Scott blogCollectionMuseum NewsNews

What’s in a name? Demystifying the Chatterton Massacre David Gordon Scott

T]the events are Chatterton are not officially named as one of the massacres in this…

andy1 July 2025

Museum on the Move blogCompany NewsNews

Museum on the Move

andy1 July 2025

The Whitaker – Staff Vacancy – Volunteer & Front of House Supervisor blogCompany NewsNews

The Whitaker – Staff Vacancy – Volunteer & Front of House Supervisor

The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery Staff Vacancy Volunteer & Front of House Supervisor  …

andy1 July 2025

Jamie Holman ‘Contagious Acts’ Launches at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery ArtblogCompany NewsNews

Jamie Holman ‘Contagious Acts’ Launches at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery

Jamie Holman ‘Contagious Acts’ Launches at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery A brand new,…

andy1 July 2025

Local Museum and Art Gallery named Lancashire’s Best Cultural Venue of the Yea blogCompany NewsNews

Local Museum and Art Gallery named Lancashire’s Best Cultural Venue of the Yea

Local Museum and Art Gallery named Lancashire’s Best Cultural Venue of the Year  The Whitaker…

andy1 July 2025

All meet at MANR News

All meet at MANR

The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery is delighted to announce a new chapter in its…

andy10 June 2025

Award winners News

Award winners

Local Museum and Art Gallery named Lancashire’s Best Cultural Venue of the Year  The annual…

andy10 June 2025

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear

Stacey Hall

Museum on the move News

Museum on the move

Museum on the Move invites you to explore the rich history of Haslingden through the…

andy10 June 2025

Jamie Holman ‘Contagious Acts’ a huge success News

Jamie Holman ‘Contagious Acts’ a huge success

A timely exhibition; Holman explores the intertwined histories of class, governance, and the politics of…

andy10 June 2025