Exhibitions

In addition to the permament exhibtions in the South East Wing, visitors to the House can also enjoy further exhibitions inside the House.

Brideshead Restored: The Story of Restoration at Castle Howard and Brideshead Revisited

Today visitors can ascend to new heights in Castle Howard, climbing the great staircases at either side of the Great Hall to view the dramatic architecture of the House from an entirely new perspective.  Open upstairs witness the extraordinary transforamtion of the High South, from derelict rooms to film set, for Brideshead Revisied (Miramax 2008), with props and painted scenery.  The accompanying exhibition tells the story of the fire and restoration, and how Evelyn Waugh's famous novel came to be filmed not just once, but twice at Castle Howard.

 

Sex and Suffrage, the Life and Times of Rosalind Howard, Radical Countess

A new exhibition opening on 24 June will tell the story of the famous Rosalind who history has dismissed as the archetypal Victorian ‘battle-axe’, a phrase she even used herself.

Rosalind’s life was devoted to duty and work, both at home and in the public sphere. Mother of eleven children, campaigner for votes for women, and Temperance crusader, she also took on the management of the Howard estates (totalling 78,00 acres), thereby freeing her husband to pursue his passion for painting. She was a hugely contradictory figure, capable of great generosity and fun, but equally she could be intolerant, vindictive and autocratic; she was in the words of her daughter a two-sided personality. This exhibition will chronicle these twin aspects of her life, uncovering all manner of new material, including the slow decline of her marriage from its romantic and intimate early days (as captured in small erotic drawings made by her husband), to setting the record straight on the most famous tale associated with her: pouring the wine from the Castle Howard cellars into the lake.

Ground Source Heating

Enjoy a new display which takes you behind the scenes of our new ground source heating which was installed during the summer of 2009.  The exhibition explains how ground source heating works and the mammoth task of installation, as well as the environmental and financial benefits to the estate.