Museum - Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, Lancashire

We are open all weekend 12 - 4.30pm

Queen Street Mill is bedecked with glorious textiles in a new exhibition from the Cultural Olympiad - 'COTTON EXCHANGE - A Material Response'. Five MMU Artists inspired by Queen Street Mill and a trip to India have transformed the Weaving Shed with their art for the whole of June. Come and be inspired...

A date for your diaries- 23rd June, 1pm-4pm Live talks, demonstrations and museum tours with the artists!

Alice Kettle's installations

Alison Welsh's shirt hangings.

Stephen Dixon's ceramic tiffin tins and billy cans

Lesley Mitchison's beautiful tapestry weave detail

Another little CoTToN ExCHaNGe exhibition taster from Andrea Zapp. Beautiful wood cut prints inspired by our pirns, Thank You Andrea!

An oldy but a goody; read another enthusiastic tale of a good old Lancashire/Yorkshire rivalry and also Queen Street Mill

Interesting Fact No.372: When the Queen Visited Burnley her bouquet was wrapped in Queen Street Mill calico....:-)

The amazing students of Burnley College have wowed us again!

Quote of the day from a family from Doncaster; "We try to come every year as Queen Street Mill cheers us up and reminds us of the industry that made Britain GREAT!"

At Queen Street Mill "The Cotton Exchange" will feature site specific art works created by Alice Kettle, Stephen Dixon, Lesley Mitchison, Alison Welsh and Andrea Zapp from MMU from 1st June 2012