Museum Partners
Fairfax House has established an enviable reputation over the past 30 years for curating high-profile, academic exhibitions to create inspiring, educational and innovative ways to view and give context to the eighteenth century.
Lending Partnerships are integral to the success of our exhibitions programme, and with the support of museums, collections and private collectors across the country we are pleased to be able to draw on and assemble a wealth of rich cultural material of national significance.
We are pleased to gratefully acknowledge the support of the following Lending Partners to our current exhibition, In Pursuit of Pleasure:
The Science Museum Group
Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove
The MCC Museum
National Fencing Museum
Pocklington School Foundation
Special Collections, Leeds University Library
York Racecourse
The Garrick Club
Borthwick Institute for Archives, The University of York
Harrogate Museum and Arts, Harrogate Borough Council
Gerald Coke Handel Collection, The Foundling Museum
Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall
Thackray Medical Museum
University of St Andrews
English Folk Dance and Song Society, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Oxford
Bath Library Services
The University of Bristol, Theatre Collection
Lancaster Museum
Past exhibition partners also include:
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
Bath Library Services
The Bowes Museum
J.B. Priestly Library, University of Bradford
The British Dental Association
The British Library
Broadfield House Glass Museum
Burton Constable Foundation
The Chippendale Society
The Charles Norman Collection
Clarks Shoe Museum
College of Optometrists
Derby Museums
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
The Fan Museum, Hélène Alexander Collection
Floris & Co, Ltd.
Fortnum and Mason
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’
Hampshire Cultural Trust
Henry Poole & Co.
Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton, Hampshire
Antique Boxes, hyga.com
Kendal Town Council
Leeds Civic Hall
Leeds Museums and Galleries (Temple Newsam House)
Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery
The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, York
The National Trust, Polesden Lacey
The Peter Jackson and Valerie Jackson Harris Collections
Spode Museum Trust
The Spriggs Collection
Thackray Medical Museum
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust
Victoria and Albert Museum
V&A Museum of Childhood
Waddesdon, The Rothschild Collection
The Wedgwood Museum
Whiteley & Sons, Sheffield
Wolverhampton Arts & Museums
York Museums Trust (Yorkshire Museum, York Art Gallery & York Castle Museum)
Fairfax House is also pleased to be associated with:
York Conservation Trust
The Yorkshire Country House Partnership
Historic Houses Association
The Association of Independent Museums
Visit York
Museums Development Yorkshire
Art Fund