Bowes Museum

The Bowes Museum is an art museum in Barnard Castle in the East North of England.

The Bowes Museum was built by the English art collector John Bowes (1811-1885) donated, however, died before the opening in 1892. As an architect, the Frenchman Jules Pellechet (1829-1903) was commissioned, who designed it in the style of a large-scale Château with park.

The museum has an important collection of European painters, including works by El Greco, Francisco Goya, Canaletto, Jean- Honoré Fragonard, François Boucher, Pierre -Henri de Valenciennes, Allan Ramsay, Thomas Gainsborough and William Turner. In addition to the paintings and decorative arts, textiles, ceramics, clocks and automata, and costumes are on display. Among the most famous exhibits of the Museum of the silver swan made ​​by the jeweler and entrepreneur James Cox, one driven by several movements machine belongs.