A selection of images from the launch of our 2017 exhibition on Branwell Brontë, curated by Simon Armitage

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Branwell Brontë's desk

Beautiful pictures from Tim who visited the Bronte Parsonage Museum

Thank you Tim for letting me use your pictures

the Hat
I wondered about the hat
is this really the hat of Branwell?
I asked the Bronte Parsonage Museum
I received this answer

Hi Geri - The pictures are of elements of our new exhibitions, Mansions in the Sky and To Walk Invisible: From Parsonage to Production. The hat and dresses were designed for Sally Wainwright's Brontë drama, To Walk Invisible, and are on display in the Museum throughout 2017.

Pictures from the Mansions in the Sky exhibition.

Beautiful pictures Edwin J.M.Marr made when he visited the Bronte Parsonage

From the #mansionsinthesky exhibition

Thank you Edwin for letting me use your pictures

Dresses

I wondered about the dresses

Are they really from the Bronte Sisters?

I asked the Bronte Parsonage Museum

This answer I received

Hi Geri - The pictures are of elements of our new exhibitions, Mansions in the Sky and To Walk Invisible: From Parsonage to Production. The hat and dresses were designed for Sally Wainwright's Brontë drama, To Walk Invisible, and are on display in the Museum throughout 2017.

Brontë 200 - Mansions in the Sky

Who was Branwell Brontë? This new exhibition, curated by poet Simon Armitage, invites us inside the mind and world of the notorious Brontë brother in a search for answers to this question. Inspired by an early poem sent to William Wordsworth by the optimistic and precocious twenty-year old, Armitage explores Branwell’s colourful personal history through his writings, drawings and possessions, displayed at the Parsonage alongside newly created installations.  
 

Highlights include a series of new poems by Armitage in response to Branwell’s belongings in the Museum collection, a dramatic recreation of Branwell’s studio designed in collaboration with the production team of the BBC’s To Walk Invisible, and the actual letter and poem posted to Wordsworth, loaned by the Wordsworth Trust especially for the bicentenary. In delving into the life and times of the infamous Branwell, Mansions in the Sky will provoke

new insights into the charismatic and complicated brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne.

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