Holburne Museum of Art

A walk down the dramatic and picturesque Great Pulteney Street culminates at the Holburne Museum of Art. Adjacent to the grounds of Sydney Gardens, the museum has a fine collection of silver and Old Masters paintings as well as landscapes by Guardi and Turner and portraits by Stubbs, Ramsay, Zoffany and Gainsborough.

Some Holburne Museum Facts:

• In the early 1790s a scheme was put forward to develop some pleasure gardens on the hexagonal plot that was to be the centrepiece of the Pulteney Estate. It was intended to resemble the famous gardens in London at Vauxhall, and was to be called Sydney Gardens Vauxhall. The first tree was planted in 1793. The gardens opened on 11th May 1795.
• A year later the hotel, or entrance to the gardens opened. Today we know it as the Holburne Museum. The building was intended to provide a grand closing vista to Great Pulteney Street.

For more photographs and facts about the Holburne Museum buy "Bath: the absolute guide" coming soon.