Sat 27 June - Sun 20 September
Mastering the Craft: Winchcombe Pottery at 100
Celebrating Britain’s only craft pottery with an unbroken 100-year history
Celebrating Britain’s only craft pottery with an unbroken 100-year history
Sat 14 Feb – Sun 22 March
Turn the Page: Crafting Letters: The Typography of C.R. Ashbee
Discover the typefaces created by C.R. Ashbee.
Sat 28 March – Sun 26 April
Nature woven into contemporary practice.
Learn something new from a group of women makers working with natural fibres: from home‑grown willow basketry to flax‑woven vessels, miniature rush pieces, willow sculpture, and traditional straw craft. This exhibition will showcase traditional weaving processes, and there will also be opportunity to purchase original wares.
Fancy something extra special? Come along to our weaving demonstration on Saturday 4 April 10am-1pm.
Sat 4 April 10am-1pm
Weaving Demonstration
Enjoy the opportunity to watch weaving first-hand! In this session, three professional weavers will be on hand to demonstrate their processes and to talk about their weaving. Whether its willow, rush, or flax there’s something new for everyone to learn. Come along between 10am and 1pm.
Tues 5 May, 10am
Craftland – A Journey through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox
A Sunday Times Bestseller
James Fox, art historian and multi-award-winning broadcaster, takes us the length of Britain to seek out the last great craftspeople: blacksmiths and wheelwrights, cutlers and coopers, bellfounders and watchmakers. A glimpse not only our past but a way of life that is not yet lost and might still shape our future.
‘Wonderful’ Michael Morpurgo
‘A treat to treasure’ Lucy Worsely
Part of Chipping Campden Literature Festival. Tickets at Campden Literature Festival
Sat 27 June – Sun 20 September
Mastering the Craft: Winchcombe Pottery at 100
Winchcombe Pottery, Britain’s only craft pottery with an unbroken 100‑year history, has shaped studio ceramics through Michael Cardew’s pioneering work, its production ware, and under Ray Finch, its training legacy. This exhibition and public symposium will showcase rare pieces, explore its influence, and share new stories and research.
Sat 4 July
Church Rooms, Calf Lane, Chipping Campden GL55 6JQ
The symposium will explore Winchcombe’s story from the early kiln disasters to wonderful handmade pots for every day. Featuring new research on the early years, its African connections, and craft pottery in the 60s and beyond with first-hand testimony from potters that worked there.
Tickets available here
Sat 3 October – Sun 1 November
New Acquisition: A Cabinet of Curiosities
The museum is pleased to share new insights into a remarkable recent gift: a bespoke cabinet designed by C.R. Ashbee for the drawing room of his London home. Thanks to a grant from the Decorative Arts Society, we are delighted to present both the cabinet itself and the results of our latest research in a new display.
This exhibition offers a closer look at Ashbee’s craftsmanship, the cabinet’s unique place in his domestic interiors, and its significance within the Arts and Crafts movement.
Sat 14 November – Sun 3 January 2027
Christmas Shop
Visit our shop with exquisite handmade gifts