The Ruskin

Join us for Ruskin Live

In partnership with English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University, The Ruskin presents a series of public readings by four award winning authors.

Welsh Tapestries with Jane Beck: Private View and Talk

Private View & Talk by Jane Beck

Jane Beck - expert, trader and collector of Welsh textiles - joins us to celebrate a display of eight Welsh Tapestries at The Ruskin, loaned from Jane's stunning personal collection of Welsh textiles dating from the 18th Century. This is a story of people and place, material and means of production, told through rich colour and pattern.

Workshops for Families at The Ruskin

Explore art and ideas together in our new Saturday-morning workshops for families, led by artists at The Ruskin.

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.

Volunteer with The Ruskin

The Ruskin is interested to meet potential volunteers to help our audience explore the new exhibition, ‘Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future’

Celebrate the launch of Sophie Thérèse Ambler's 'The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry'

Join us at The Ruskin on 31 October to celebrate the launch of 'The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry' by Sophie Thérèse Ambler, Lecturer in Later Medieval History at Lancaster. 'The Song' will be introduced by Nicholas Vincent, Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy.