the Ruskin - Museum of the near future

The Ruskin - Museum of the near future

Home to the leading collection of the works of John Ruskin (1819-1900), the epoch-defining writer, artist and social thinker

 

Working with visitors and scholars from across the world, we explore how Ruskin's ideas can unlock the pressing cultural, social and environmental issues of today and tomorrow.

At The Ruskin we promote debate across the arts and sciences, using the collection to investigate culture and heritage, landscape and the environment. 

 

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The Ruskin – Library, Museum and Research Centre, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YB 
Telephone: +44 (0)1524 593587

Photograph © Peter Durant

 

Discover Ruskin through our collections

For more information on events celebrating the Bicentenary of Ruskin's birth:

www.ruskin200.com 

www.ruskinto-day.org

 

Ruskin today

What's On at The Ruskin

9th May

Ruskin seminar: ‘Art and Politics: Arts, Crafts and Steampunk’ - Martin Danahay (Brock University, Canada)

Thursday 9 May 2019, 4:15pm to 6:00pm
16th May

Ruskin seminar: ‘Ruskin vs. Steampunk’ - Catherine Spooner and Andrew Tate (Lancaster University)

Thursday 16 May 2019, 4:15pm to 6:00pm
29th May

Nineteenth-Century Matters: Digital Mapping Training Day for Early Career Researchers

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30am to 4:30pm
30th May

Ruskin seminar: ‘Gender and Radicalism in The Steampunk Magazine’ - Claire Nally (University of Northumbria)

Thursday 30 May 2019, 4:15pm to 6:00pm

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Latest News

Studio Doitsu, Lefebvre and Grappe

Live @ The Ruskin welcomes Noémi Lefebvre and Laurent Grappe

Noémi Lefebvre and Laurent Grappe will be at The Ruskin for an afternoon discussion on 28 March at 4pm. All are welcome to join.
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.
Geraldine Green at Brantwood

LitFest features Geraldine Green

On Friday 15 March, the Storey features an evening of North West arts' finest, including Geraldine Green.
Image: John Ruskin, ‘Archivolt in the Duomo of Murano’, Stones of Venice (1851–53), II, op. 58.

New seminars announced for Summer Term

This Summer term we invite you all to the Ruskin seminar series 'Ruskin and Steampunk: Recovering Radicalism'
John Ruskin, ‘Quivi Trovammo’, engraving, after J.M.W. Turner, Modern Painters, vol. 5 (1860), pl. 78

Ruskin's Ecology seminar, 7 March

Everybody is invited to "The Mountain’s Anatomy: Articulating Skeletons in Ruskin’s Ecological Imagination", the final Ruskin seminar of this term on Thursday 7 March (open to all), which will examine the correspondence of Ruskin’s thought with the ecological sensitivities of our own time.

We are pleased to be presenting this new series of events in partnership with Dr Kelly Freeman (UCL) and Dr Thomas Hughes (The Courtauld).
Book cover Blue Self portrait

Live @ the Ruskin: On Translating Music and Philosophy in Noémi Lefebvre

We are looking forward to another Live @ the Ruskin event as we welcome literary translator Sophie Lewis. Sophie will discuss the interplay of music and philosophy in her translation of Noémi Lefebvre’s first novel, Blue Self-Portrait (L’autoportrait bleu).

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