Celebrating #EmmaRaducanu’s #USOpen win 🎾 Did you know Harry Gem and Augurio Perera founded the world’s first lawn tennis club on Avenue Road in Leamington in 1874, three years before the Wimbledon championships started? For many years tennis was played in Jephson Gardens!

🔹 Last chance to see Modern Mercia! 🔹 The Modern Mercia temporary exhibition closes this Sunday. If you haven't already seen it, or want to experience it again, this week is your last chance! Opening times & more info: bit.ly/3wpMZ60

From 11am to 1pm today we will be participating in #askacurator! 💬 Comment your questions underneath this post or send us a message to get a response from one of our excellent team of curators.

#askacurator Q: When nobody is looking, do you touch the art? A: Yes! We have to, when we’re changing the displays. It’s one of the best parts of the job but also sometimes very scary, when you’re handling something really fragile. - Lily

#askacurator Q: Where do you keep all the things not on display? A: Almost all our collections are stored on-site at the Royal Pump Rooms. During the pandemic I have been reorganising the ceramics store, so now it’s much easier to find the items we need for displays. - Lily

👩‍🎨Reminder, our talks, Sickness and In Health: British Art and Medicine, Past and Present continues with Seeing Things: Visual Narratives of Embodied Experience by Alexa Wright. TODAY at 6pm! Book your FREE space here: bit.ly/3Bfii6j Talks 35 mins with Q&A at the end!

Next up in our lecture series is Dr Amanda Sciampacone an art historian who explores the intersections between British art, visual culture, medicine, and the environment across the long nineteenth century. 30/9/21, 6pm. Book your FREE space here: bit.ly/3E4sy3K

This print shows the opening of the original station at Milverton in 1844. 🚂 This was the terminus of the Leamington and Warwick Railway, Leamington’s first railway line. It connected Leamington and Warwick to Coventry and on to London and Birmingham. #curatorschoice

🔹 COMING SOON 🔹 Upcoming temporary exhibition HYPER-POSSIBLE brings together newly commissioned projects and existing artworks from national collections, creating an opportunity to look back at what has made the local area unique. More information: bit.ly/3zB0b9F

💐 Another curators collection highlight! 💐 This figurine is of Pomona, she was the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards. This ceramic figurine was made in Staffordshire in about 1800 and shows her holding a cornucopia filled with summer fruits. #curatorschoice

🐦 Today's Curators Collection Highlight! 🐦 Is the charming bird perched in this oak tree a bullfinch? The jug was given to LSAG&M by Francis Jahn in memory of his sister Henrietta, who collected traditional lustre pottery. #curatorschoice

We’re delighted to announce that we have secured £16,058.40 from the Weston Loan Scheme which will enable us to borrow a selection of outstanding artworks from national collections for the Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries exhibition in the summer of 2022.

Amanda Sciampacone's 'In Sickness and in Health' online lecture, Cholera in Victorian Visual Culture, has been rescheduled to the 21st October. There are still FREE tickets available here: bit.ly/3E4sy3K Dr Amanda Sciampacone

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'Outgrowing' runs until 24 April - come, see!

Calling all West Midlands-based artists💥 🎯 Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum’s Open 2022: leamingtonopen2022.artopps.co.uk 💸 Prizes: £1000 and artist spotlight, ✅ All mediums welcome: painting, sculpture, drawing, digital, photo, film, etc. ⏰ Deadline: Friday, 16 September.

Places are still available on 6 x FREE #WDSpark2024 workshops on Thu 15 Feb: 🎙️Podcasting 💻Social Media Marketing 💪Empowering Neurodivergent & Disabled Employees 🧠Intellectual Property 🌍Climate Justice Find out more: bit.ly/3J0pTwJ #CreativeSectorSupport