Exhibitions at Kingston Heritage Festival 2024

The Holiday Revolution - FUSEBOX

12/09/2024 - 14/09/2024    
11:00 - 18:00 (Thu 12 & Fri 13 ) & 11:00 - 15:00 (Sat 14)    
FUSEBOX Kingston    


An immersive pop-up exhibition about how mass tourism to the Spanish Costas evolved into a new kind of social revolution. The Holiday Revolution will look at how the desire to travel overseas evolved into a new kind of social revolution. It will take us on a journey from the heyday in the 1950s and 60s to the ‘pile ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap package holidays that began to dominate in the 70s and 80s. We’ll see how the relentless march of tourism has started to destroy what it promotes and we’ll ask how we can still sell the dream without selling out?     
Free Entry (No Booking Required)    

Find out more on their website: Creative Youth Charity
   

San Francisco in Kingston: Muybridge and Panoramas

10 May - 2 November 2024

Marking the 120th anniversary of Kingston-born photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s death, the exhibition presents a magnificent panorama of San Francisco that Muybridge photographed in 1878. The over-five-metre-long panorama is one of the highlights of Kingston Museum’s world-class Muybridge collection. The exhibition also features three modern panoramas of the city by American photographer Mark Klett, British artists Tom Pope and James Doyle, and American historian Nick Wright. It also displays different scenes of Kingston in the 19th century and the present day.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is best known for his pioneering work in instantaneous photography and moving image projection. He was also an acclaimed landscape photographer, capturing splendid images of the American West, Central America, and many other places.

The exhibition is FREE to view, subject to Kingston Museum opening times - Thursday to Saturday 10 am - 5 pm.