I have spent a couple of days at the Bowes Museum helping to curate an exhibition the Northern School of Art textile students of my year have been invited to hold. The work on show is a wonderful eclectic collection of fabrics, scarves, clothes, and objects all inspired by objects in and the building of the Bowes Museum. The Museum already holds a nationally renowned art collection and now has some contemporary additions. The building itself is stunning, built in the 19th century by John and Josephine Bowes with the idea of creating a world-class museum in order to introduce the wider world of art to the local people. Our display is spread across the three floors of the museum and is vibrant, colourful and hard to miss in among the more traditional exhibits. The juxtaposition of 19th century artifacts and the modern take really works showing how historical objects, buildings and interior spaces can be developed and repres...