Museum to bring windows to life

Quaker Tapestry museum seeks to 'Wake up its Windows'

The Quaker Tapestry Museum has come up with an innovative way to show that it is ‘open for business’.

Museum manager Bridget Guest told the Friend that the use of blackout blinds – necessary to protect the embroidered panels from daylight – often leads would-be visitors to think, wrongly, that the museum is closed.

‘Friends Meeting House in Kendal, which is home to the Quaker Tapestry, looks from the outside of the building to be asleep!’ she explained.
The museum’s solution is to apply coloured images to the outside of the glass.

‘This will help show some of what is offered inside the museum and transform the frontage,’ Bridget said.

Planning permission has been granted and fundraising for the Wake up our Windows project is underway.

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