I was planning to do a 'packing by numbers' post today to share some of the frankly astonishing figures that have come out of our bi...

One of my absolute favourite works in the Cecil Higgins collection is David Bomberg’s charcoal study 'Across the Valley, Ronda'. It...

Although I am known as The Keeper of Archaeology I look after our collections of Ethnographic objects and Coins as well as Archaeology.  Our...

With the gallery and museum closed for so long, we're always very happy when one of our pictures goes out on loan to another museum wher...

The Smoking Room, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum Walking through the Victorian Mansion (as it was), you would have be...

Our object of the week is this golden bull, which adorned John Bull’s Jewellery and Silversmith’s at 49 High Street , Bedford. John Bull’s w...

One of the larger (or certainly heavier) objects in the collection is telephone box that used to be on display in the museum courtyard. Do...