21 Jun – 14 Sep 2025
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley
Ice Age Art Now
British Museum
We travelled back in time with this British Museum Partnership Exhibition.
We travelled back in time with this British Museum Partnership Exhibition and encountered works of art dating back thousands of years.
This visually stunning exhibition showed how artistic creativity existed thousands of years before traditional art histories suggest – as an essential part of human life.
Ice Age Art Now presented work by people living in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age, some as much as 24,000 years old. These astounding works reveal the deep roots of drawing, sculpture, realism, abstraction, signs, symbols and more – and the extraordinary skill and imagination of these early image makers find echoes in modern and contemporary art.
This family-friendly exhibition featured a wealth of rare items from the British Museum and local treasures from the collections of Bradford District Museums & Galleries, arranged into such themes as decorating the body, drawing animals and abstracting the female form. The exhibition also featured an installation reimagining cave art and other imagery from thousands of years ago for the 21st century.
The exhibition was supplemented with a programme of talks, family activities and other special events.
360 tour
See the artworks up close in this interactive 360 tour of the exhibition.
Lead image: Mammoth spear thrower © The Trustees of the British Museum
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