LINKS

Welcome to our Links page. Here you will be able to access different organisations who have an association with Waddesdon Manor.

NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM, BRADFORD

The Dawn of Colour: celebrating the Centenary of the Autochrome
The Dawn of Colour celebrates the centenary of the autochrome and the birth of colour photography. It reveals the Edwardian world as you have probably never seen it before - in full, vibrant colour. For further information Click Here.

Part of this exhibition comes to us from the National Media Museum, Bradford, and together with autochromes of Waddesdon, is on display in the Coach House at Waddesdon Manor.

The Autochrome Exhibition has been temporarily removed from the Coach House but will be back on display from Wednesday 9 July until Sunday 26 October, Wednesday to Sunday, 10.00-5.00.

ROTHSCHILD ARCHIVE AND RESEARCH FORUM

In 2002 we set up the Rothschild Research Forum. This is collaboration with the Rothschild Archive in London to make Rothschild research resources available on-line and enable scholars in the field to contact one another. The site is continually updated, so to register for the Research Forum, or visit the Rothschild Archive website, please follow this link: Rothschild Archive

Waddesdon Manor is proud to be involved in three new eLearning resources to support the National Curriculum in schools, as part of the Museum Network.

Generously funded by the DCMS/DfES Strategic Commissioning Fund and conceived jointly between Waddesdon Manor (Buckinghamshire), The Wallace Collection (London), The Bowes Museum (County Durham), Compton Verney (Warwickshire) and The Holbourne Museum (Bath), these exciting online resources draw on the collections of all five museums and cover the key curriculum topics of Portraits, Landscapes and Greek and Roman Myths.

To find out more, please follow this link: The Museum Network

This year sees the culmination of a three year research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and a collaboration with the University of Warwick, to catalogue our important collection of 18th-century trade cards.

For more information on The University of Warwick please follow this link: www2.warwick.ac.uk

Chappell & McCullar, San Francisco based antiques experts, present a bespoke line of contemporary furniture inspired by classic 18th century pieces in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon.

These extraordinary pieces are designed and executed by Chappell & McCullar to articulate with the best of 21st century interior design, and yet be resonant of the work of the finest 18th century ebenistes. For more information and to view these pieces, please Click Here

THE GLOVE COLLECTION TRUST

We are delighted to have on loan two pairs of gloves from The Glove Collection Trust, as part of our "All that Glitters: Shopping in 18th-century Paris exhibition.

Image by kind permission of The Glove Collection Trust and the Fashion Museum, Bath and North East Somerset Council

For more information on The Glove Collection Trust please visit www.glovecollectioncatalogue.org