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The Ruskin

Explore the art and ideas of John Ruskin (1819-1900), epoch-defining writer, artist and social thinker. Our collection is displayed both at The Ruskin, Lancaster University and Brantwood, Coniston.

International Museum Day 2020

Launched digitally on International Museum Day 2020, Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future invites you to reflect on how life takes shape and where tomorrow’s world is today.

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Digital Exhibition: 'Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future'

Friday 18 September 2020, 10:00am to Friday 30 October 2020, 4:00pm
5th Nov

Ruskin Live with Martha Sprackland

Thursday 5 November 2020, 6:00pm to 7:15pm
6th Nov

History Research Seminar: Paul Readman (King’s College London)

Friday 6 November 2020, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
12th Nov

Digital Exhibition: 'Mountains of the Future'

Thursday 12 November 2020, 10:00am to Friday 11 December 2020, 6:00pm
19th Nov

Workshop: Making 'Mountains of the Future'

Thursday 19 November 2020, 10:00am to 12:00pm

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Daguerreotype image of St Marks, Venice.

'Ruskin Beyond Britain'

The Ruskin Seminar Series 2020/2021.
John Ruskin, Cloud Effect over Coniston Old Man © The Ruskin, Lancaster University

'Look to the skies...'

The Ruskin joins global #MuseumFromHome campaign.
Exhibition poster, featuring detail from a study of clouds drawn by John Ruskin at Coniston, overlaid with studies of perspective diagrams of cloud formation.

'Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future' Exhibition Extended to 28 Feb 2020

'Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future', which relaunched The Ruskin and celebrates the purchase of The Ruskin Whitehouse Collection, has been extended to 28 February 2020. A special weekend opening on 14/15 December will give a larger audience the opportunity to enjoy Ruskin's works.
V. & F. Albritton, Green Victorians & S. F. Cooper, Why Ruskin Matters - cover images

The Ruskin Seminar Programme 2019-2020

Introducing The Ruskin Seminar Programme for 2019-2020. Franziska Schenk (Birmingham City University), Mark Frost (University of Portsmouth), Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (University of Chicago) and Suzanne Fagence Cooper (York Art Gallery) will speak on topics ranging from ecological crisis to evolutionary theory.
Left: Milk Thistle, 1874, by John Ruskin (1819-1900). Right: Peacock and Falcon Feathers, 1873, by John Ruskin (1819-1900).

Lancaster exhibition celebrates purchase of world-leading John Ruskin collection

Lancaster University and the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) are delighted to announce the purchase of the Whitehouse Ruskin Collection. This purchase has secured for the nation an unparalleled collection of the works of John Ruskin (1819–1900) and his circle.
John Ruskin’s watercolour, pencil and body colour of ‘The Walls of Lucerne’ (1866) from the Whitehouse Ruskin Collection. Image Courtesy of the Ruskin Foundation, The Ruskin, Lancaster University

Archive of visionary thinker secured for the nation

Lancaster University and the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) are delighted to announce the purchase of the Whitehouse Ruskin Collection. This purchase has secured for the nation an unparalleled collection of the paintings and drawings, books and manuscripts, photographs and daguerreotypes of John Ruskin (1819–1900), the epoch-defining critic, artist, environmentalist and social thinker.

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Rouen, Cathedral of Notre Dame, The Lady Chapel, by John Ruskin (1854)
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