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A virtual exhibition to explore The Ruskin Whitehouse Collection at The Ruskin – Library, Museum and Research Centre at Lancaster University.

Look closely, see clearly, imagine freely: parables and places to encounter our world.

John Ruskin’s motto was ‘Today’. He believed that the way we see things now will shape the way we think and behave in the future. The virtual exhibition Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future explores the relevance of Ruskin’s thinking for our own time. Visit the exhibition on Google Arts and Culture here.

Through image and word, his works take us into the nature of seeing and into the multidimensional nature of knowledge itself. Parables and places for imaginative encounters, they reflect our relationship, both modest and magnificent, to the world in which we live.

While The Ruskin remains closed, explore the collection at home from 18 September through a digital re-imagining of the exhibition 'Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future', created for Heritage Open Days. A PDF exhibition guide is available to download here.