The Bowes Museum has a nationally renowned art collection and is situated in the town of Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England.

Why was Bowes Museum built?

The Bowes Museum was purpose-built as a public art gallery for John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, Countess of Montalbo, who both died before it opened in 1892.

Who lived in Bowes Museum?

Mary and John's eldest son John Bowes, the 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, lived at Streatlam Castle where he fell in love and fathered a son, John Bowes, with local women Mary Milner. It was John Bowes, Mary Eleanor's grandson, who founded the Bowes Museum in 1811.