A vast exhibition spanning the life and works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh will be displayed in Liverpool next year.
Tickets for the blockbuster exhibition, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: making the Glasgow Style will go on general sale from next Tuesday 23 October (10am), with a special members’ pre-sale starting from 10am today, Wednesday 17 October, when members can pre-book their free tickets (subject to availability) along with tickets for friends and family.
Tickets are priced from £9 for adults and £2 for children aged between 6 and 17 years. Children aged 5 years and under go free. There will be a number of additional concessions. For further details of prices, how to book tickets and to become a member visit: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mackintosh
Spanning the lifetime of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) and his contemporaries between 1890 and 1920, the exhibition will explore the movement that became known as The Glasgow Style; Glasgow being the birthplace of the only Art Nouveau ‘movement’ in the UK, with its style and popularity of design spreading all over the world.
The exhibition will present objects from Glasgow Museums and the Mitchell Library and Archives, as well as loans from private and public collections. More than 250 objects will be on display across the full spectrum of media, including stained glass, ceramics, mosaic, metalwork, furniture, stencilling, embroidery, graphics, books, interiors and architecture.