Visitors to The Auckland Project’s Spanish Gallery will be able to enjoy free weekly highlight tours thanks to a collaboration between the Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art at Durham University and The Auckland Project. The highlight tours, available every Wednesday from 8th March to the end of July, will focus on early modern Spanish art and be delivered by doctoral students from Durham University, bringing the Spanish Gallery’s collection to life for visitors.
Edward Perry, CEO of The Auckland Project, said: “We are delighted to be able to offer our visitors tours of the Spanish Gallery. Our collections in the Spanish Gallery reflect the majesty and melodrama of the Spanish Golden Age and, thanks to the tours delivered by the doctoral students from Durham University, our visitors will be able to truly immerse themselves in this remarkable world.”
Professor Claudia Hopkins, Director of the Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art at Durham University, said: “We are delighted to facilitate learning about early modern Spanish art in Bishop Auckland. Led by our team of PhD students, visitors will explore some of the highlights in the Spanish Gallery’s collection and have the opportunity to ask questions about the culture that produced them. The tours are part of a public engagement project, led by Durham University, which aims to raise awareness of the County’s remarkable Spanish art heritage.”
The weekly highlights tours will run every Wednesday at 11.30am and 1.30pm and will last about 45 minutes. Tours are free with an admission ticket to the Spanish Gallery, and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis on the day. Places can be reserved at the Spanish Gallery entrance desk, the starting point for each tour.
The tours are funded by Durham University as part of the Spanish Art in County Durham public engagement programme.
To book tickets for the Spanish Gallery, or to find out more about The Auckland Project, please visit www.aucklandproject.org
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