Turning Point: MP125

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Own your own piece of The Bowes Museum's heritage! Pledge to turn our magnificent Monkey Puzzle into contemporary hand crafted bowls. - This year we've celebrated our 125th anniversary. Two amazing people, John Bowes a wealthy landowner and Joséphine Bowes a French actress, not only shared a love for each other, but also a love of art. They created a French-style château in Barnard Castle, Teesdale housing collections of fine and decorative art and opened the doors to the public in 1892. When they were amassing their huge collection, John Bowes purchased a Monkey Puzzle tree from ...

Read More Mr Lane of Great Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire to plant in the Museum grounds. Business card of Lane & Sons from the Museum archiveThe tree travelled North by train and was planted in the summer of 1871. In the Museum's archive we have some interesting documents about the tree's provenance and its importance to John and Joséphi

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