The exhibition was organised as part of the Honourable Company of Gloucestershire’s charitable fundraising programme for 2012.  Their chosen charity is the Development Trust for Building for a New Future, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. The redevelopment scheme will provide additional galleries, new open access study areas and dedicated spaces for education, outreach services and arts programmes. There will also be an expanded events space and a new ground floor café and shop.  The Museum has been closed since April 2011 and is scheduled to re-open in Spring 2013.  For more information about this exciting project, visit the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
website http://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/  

As well as around 40 items from Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, the exhibition included treasures from other Gloucestershire museums, institutions and private collections, including:
Stroud Museum in the Park            Cheltenham College
Gallery Pangolin                            Rodmarton Manor
Corinium Museum                          Lynn Chadwick Estate
Owlpen Manor                               Royal Agricultural College
Prinknash Abbey                           Newman Fine Art        
Sudeley Castle                              Berkeley Castle