Autumn in Bath – Your Autumn City of Culture

Petrification: Fossils & the revelation of deep time

What makes fossils so special? Fossils provide the evidence that there was life on earth before humans and this year Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution is displaying a selection of the best from the depths of our amazing collections. Petrification is BRLSI’s latest exhibition and in it you will discover fossils from across 505 million years of the history of life. The BRLSI’s earliest fossil is a trilobite from the Cambrian geological period

The Most Tiresome Place in the World: Jane Austen & Bath

In 2025 No.1 Royal Crescent will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with the exhibition, The Most Tiresome Place in the World: Jane Austen & Bath.

Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries

This will be a rare opportunity to see some of Turner’s finest watercolours from a private collection, in the 250th anniversary year since his birth. The exhibition will showcase Turner at his most experimental and gestural. The selection of works will also place him among notable contemporaries including Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman, to highlight the era of exciting developments in watercolour in which they worked.

Illustrating Austen

In the 250th anniversary year of Jane Austen’s birth, our autumn display will offer audiences the chance to see the artwork behind their favourite Austen novels. 

Centring around Austen’s stories and the characters she created, Illustrating Austen will demonstrate how our favourite characters came to life on the page and have evolved through the years, reflecting the changing times and new audiences.

The Lost Spells

This immersive family exhibition showcases artworks by Jackie Morris and poems by Robert Macfarlane, from their best-selling book The Lost Spells.