Image: Charleston Farmhouse (Simon Carey CC BY-SA 2.0)
Charleston launches ‘7 Days of Summer’ with extended opening hours
Charleston will open to the public seven days a week during the summer holidays for the first time, running from Monday 28 July to Sunday 7 September. The historic house and gallery, which typically operates five days a week from Wednesday to Sunday, will return to its usual schedule from Monday 8 September.
The expanded opening affects both Charleston’s main site in Firle, the former home of Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and its town-centre gallery space in Lewes. The initiative coincides with the school holidays.
Visitors to Charleston in Firle can access the house and garden daily, alongside the exhibition Inventing Post-Impressionism: Works from The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Daily guided tours of the house will begin at 9.45am.
At Charleston in Lewes, the exhibition Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour continues throughout the summer.
Free admission for under-18s applies at both venues.
Charleston director and CEO, Nathaniel Hepburn, said: “Opening seven days a week allows
us to welcome more people through our doors – whether they’re coming for the art, the exhibitions, or simply to enjoy time in a unique cultural setting.”
Charleston will return to its usual five-day opening from September.
