Burton Art Gallery and Museum

The Burton Art Gallery and Museum is over 65 years old. With its friendly team of team of workers and volunteers, it has been celebrating, displaying and nurturing all sorts of artists considering the fact that being set up on 31 October, 1951 with the aid of Thomas Burton, a local businessman, and Hubert Coop, a successful artist. The Burton is a community venue for anyone to like and get entry to freely and has art galleries, a shop, craft gallery, a French bistro cafe, museum, workshop rooms for lease and is Bideford’s traveller records centre. An example from an exhibition "The River Torridge, Source to Sea" with the aid of Sheila Hutchinson, painted at some point of the 1940's for the Festival of Britain Exhibition in Bideford Art School in 1951.

Bone Model Ship of the Brunswick Class, made through French prisoners in the course of the Napoleonic Wars, 1793 - 1815. Constructed of mutton bone, metallic, timber and thread from their apparel. Judith Ackland changed into added up in Bideford and attended its Art School. She met Mary Stella Edwards in London and collectively they produced many watercolour artwork which may be visible during Britain. 'Appledore Quay' by means of Hubert Coop, RBA, 1873 - 1953. This portray is one of the bequest to the town of Bideford with the aid of this artist, given "proper housing" through Thomas Burton when he built the Gallery in 1951.