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Kingston University Student Design competition | Prize money £500

Dorich House museum is welcoming design submissions from Kingston University students to create new greeting card sets for the museum to sell in their shop. The design must take inspiration from Dorich House Museum. You can draw inspiration from the architecture, the museum collection, the former owners or the surrounding garden and views from Dorich House. […]

Han Do-hyun | Icheon Ceramics Exhibition | 4 Sept – 29 Nov 2025

Dorich House Museum is delighted to show an exhibition of works by Korean artist Han Do-hyun, a master ceramicist from the city of Icheon, South Korea. Icheon is a UNESCO Creative City for Arts and Folk Art and is home to over 700 studios including Han’s own HanSugBon studio. In recognition of his skill, Han […]

The Raw Origins of a Diaspora | Artist Workshop | 15 July 2025 | 1-4pm

Join artist Angela Ford for a sculptural plaster casting and mould making workshop relating to her current exhibition at Dorich House Museum. Tuesday 15 July | 1 – 4pm | £5 or free for Kingston University students | BOOK HERE Join multidisiplinary designer and researcher Angela Ford for a sculptural plaster casting and mould making […]

Summer Garden Party | Saturday 21 June 2025 | 1-5pm

Summer Garden Party | Free | All Welcome | 1-5pm Please join us on Saturday 21 June for our annual Summer Garden Party. Bring your friends, enjoy a complimentary glass of prosecco and relax in our walled orchard garden while listening to live music performed by Kingston University Performing Arts students throughout the afternoon. Inside, […]

The Raw Origins of a Diaspora | Angela Ford | 5 June – 26 July 2025

The Raw Origins of a Diaspora: Part Two | Angela Ford The Raw Origins of a Diaspora investigates raw materials from a decolonial perspective. Creating a series of artefacts that reflect the untold histories and migrations of the Jamaican diaspora through Angela Ford’s personal DNA, the work links Jamaican cultural practices to West African heritage. […]

Call for Museum & Gallery Assistants 2025/26

Dorich House Museum & Stanley Picker Gallery: Museum & Gallery Assistant Programme Paid Opportunity for Kingston University Students Deadline for applications: Thursday 5 June 2025 at 5pm Dorich House Museum and our Kingston University partner venue Stanley Picker Gallery are recruiting new Museum & Gallery Assistants for the 2025/26 academic year. Our Museum & Gallery Assistants play […]

International Day for Biological Diversity Talk | 22 May 2025

International Day for Biological Diversity Talk | 22 May 2025 2-3pm | £5 | All Welcome To celebrate International Day of Biological Diversity, Dorich House Museum will be hosting a special talk focusing on the connection between natural and cultural heritage. Join the Museum Curator Fiona Fisher, Kingston University’s Biodiversity and Landscape Manager Sivi Sivanesan, […]

REMET Art Prize 2025 | 01 May – 21 June 2025

01 May – 21 June 2025 | Free | Drop in For the second year in a row, Dorich House Museum will be exhibiting all seven finalists work for the REMET Art Prize. Between 1st May and 21st June the work will be on display across the second-floor apartment of Dorich House Museum. REMET hold […]

The Pleasure Patchwork | Rosalind Holgate-Smith | 15 – 17 May 2025

Join us at Dorich House Museum across three days in May while Dance Artist Rosalind Holgate-Smith in collaboration with the sculptor Katharina Krenkel, will exhibit the Pleasure Patchwork, an interactive soft sculpture made of worm-like, phallic and invaginated forms that can be turned inside out. Inspired by the skin, the crochet blanket invites touch and […]

Erika Tan: ‘Barang-Barang’ Book Launch & Talk | 05 April 2025

Join us on Saturday 5 April at Dorich House Museum for Erika Tan’s Barang-Barang book launch.  Book FREE tickets for the event here. From 11am Barang-Barang: Spectural Entanglements (23mins) film screening in the Museum’s Modelling Studio2-3pm Talk with Erika Tan, Rebecca Fortnum, Fiona Fisher and Lucy ReynoldsFrom 3pm Drinks reception As an extension to the intergenerational and transnational connections and conversations made within […]

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