{{short description|Museum in Carlisle, United Kingdom}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox museum | name = Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery | logo = | logo_upright = | image = File:The Rotunda, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery - geograph.org.uk - 1650395.jpg | image_upright = 1.15 | caption = <!--Not required by Manual of Style--> | established = {{Start date and age|1893}} | collection_size = | location = Castle Street, Carlisle CA3 8TP, England, United Kingdom | map_type = | map_caption = | leader_type = Chairman | leader = Andrew Smith <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tullie.org.uk/who-we-are/trust-board/|title = Trust Board|date = 12 September 2024|website=Tullie House}}</ref> | director = Andrew Mackay <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tullie.org.uk/who-we-are/|title = Senior Leadership Team|date = 12 September 2024|website=Tullie House}}</ref> | coordinates = {{coord|54.8952|-2.9405|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}} | visitors = 240,000 (2018) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/th_annual_review_2017-2018_digital.pdf|title=TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY TRUST ANNUAL REVIEW 2017/2018|website=Tullie House}}</ref> | public_transit = | website = {{Official URL}} }} '''Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery''', officially known as '''Tullie''' since July 2024, is a museum in Carlisle, England. Opened by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, the original building is a converted Jacobean mansion, with extensions added when it was converted. At first the building contained the museum and also a library, an art school and a technical school.<ref name=nhle-house>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1297353 | desc=Tullie House and Extensions, 15, Abbey Street|accessdate=16 July 2015}}</ref><ref name=imagesofengland>{{cite web | url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1297353 | title=Tullie House and extensions: Detailed Record |publisher=Historic England | year=2007 | access-date=2008-09-06 }}</ref>

Tullie reopened on 26th April 2025 after extensive redevelopment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Henrys|first=Rebecca |date=2025-04-28 |title=Tullie Museum reopens following multimillion pound transformation |url=https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/25115941.tullie-museum-reopens-following-multimillion-pound-transformation/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=News and Star |language=en-GB}}</ref>

The building, including the extensions, is a Grade I listed building,<ref name=nhle-house/> and the wall, gates and railings in front of the house are separately Grade I listed.<ref name=nhle-wall>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1196978 | desc=Wall, gates and railings in front of Tullie House, Abbey Street|accessdate=16 July 2015}}</ref>

The two schools were moved in the 1950s and the library in 1986. The museum expanded into the city Guildhall in 1980 and with new space available from 1986 it underwent an extensive redevelopment over 1989&ndash;90 and again in 2000&ndash;01.

Since May 2011 the museum has been an independent charitable trust, the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust.<ref>{{cite web|title=About us|date=9 May 2011|url=http://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/about-us|publisher=Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=September 2024}} It is one of the three members of the Cumbria Museum Consortium, along with Lakeland Arts and the Wordsworth Trust.<ref>{{cite web|title=Home page|url=http://cumbriamuseums.org.uk/|publisher=Cumbria Museum Consortium|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref> In 2012&ndash;15 and 2015&ndash;18 this consortium was one of the 21 museums or consortia (16 in the earlier period) to be funded by Arts Council England as "Major Partner Museums".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Atkinson|first1=Rebecca|title=ACE increases number of Major Partner Museums|url=http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/01072014-ace-announces-mpms|website=Museums Journal|publisher=Museums Association|access-date=16 July 2015|date=1 July 2014}}</ref>

== Collections ==

The museum has large and eclectic collections of zoological, botanical and geological material. The plant collector, Clara Winsome Muirhead worked at the museum in the 1940s and donated a large collection of botanical specimens to the museum. The fine and decorative arts collections include works by Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelite artists, as well as Stanley Spencer, Winifred Nicholson, Sheila Fell and Phil Morsman.

=== Musical instruments === There is collection of stringed instruments including a violin by Andrea Amati from the royal collection of France.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amati violin |url=https://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/objects/amati-violin |access-date=2020-08-31 |website=Tullie House|date=9 December 2009 }}</ref>

=== Roman Britain === There were two Roman forts in Carlisle, one of which, Uxelodunum (or Stanwix to use the modern toponym), was the largest along the length of Hadrian's Wall. The museum houses important collections and temporary exhibitions associated with Hadrian's Wall.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/09/hadrians-wall-roman-cavalry Roman...] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003043616/http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/09/hadrians-wall-roman-cavalry |date=3 October 2016 }}</ref>

=== Post-Roman history === The human history collection also features permanent exhibitions dedicated to the Vikings and the Border Reivers.

== Accolades == Tullie House Museum won the annual Family Friendly Museum Award (sponsored by the Telegraph Media Group) in 2015.<ref name="MA">{{cite web | url=http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/29092015-tullie-house-wins-family-friendly-award | title=Tullie House wins Telegraph...| publisher=Museums Association | date=2015 | access-date=29 March 2016 | author=Steel, Patrick}}</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery> File:Tullie House.jpg|Tullie House Gardens File:Centre piece of Roman Jupiter mount (FindID 195405-153331).jpg|Centre piece of Roman Jupiter mount File:Arthur Hughes - The Rift within the Lute.jpg|Arthur Hughes - The Rift within the Lute File:Ancient Roman artefacts at Tullie House (6).JPG|Roman gravestone File:Court mantua dress at Tullie House Museum A (2).jpg|Margery Jackson's court mantua dress File:Swans at Tullie House Museum (1a).JPG|19th century Swans File:Ancient Roman artefacts at Tullie House (1).JPG|Ancient Roman tombstone File:Ancient Roman artefacts at Tullie House (13).JPG|Ancient Roman plaque File:Medieval coin, Rickerby Hoard Coin H6 2016T837 (FindID 809240).jpg|Medieval Rickerby Hoard Coin File:Langdale axe (FindID 846778).jpg|Langdale axe File:Samuel Bough - Cricket Match at Edenside, Carlisle CBR THMA 1912 1.jpg|Cricket Match at Edenside File:Cat crossing Castle Street - geograph.org.uk - 1638412.jpg|Side Entrance </gallery>

==See also== {{portal|Cumbria}} *Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria *Listed buildings in Carlisle, Cumbria

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == {{Commons category|Tullie House}} *{{official website|https://tullie.org.uk/}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091217160522/http://www.iromans.co.uk/ iRomans] Website about Carlisle and the region's Roman history{{dead link|date=July 2015}} *{{EW charity|1143235|Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust}}

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