Dove Cottage Lake District building, Museum at Wordsworth Grasmere Architecture, Photos, Architects
Dove Cottage & Museum at Wordsworth Grasmere
14 Sep 2020
Dove Cottage, Wordsworth?s former Lake District home
Exhibition, interpretation & wayfinding: Nissen Richards Studio ; Basebuild architect: Purcell
Nissen Richards Studio creates new interpretation for Dove Cottage and the Museum at Wordsworth Grasmere,
together with branding, wayfinding, graphic and exhibition design
Dove Cottage, exterior view from garden:

Photos by Gareth Gardner
As part of Reimagining Wordsworth, the 2020 celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth Grasmere has unveiled the first phase of a re-imagined visitor journey at Dove Cottage, Wordsworth?s former Lake District home. The newly-expanded Museum on the site, showcasing many of Wordsworth?s original manuscripts, will open in spring 2021 in a second phase of the project. Exhibition design and interpretative overview throughout is by Nissen Richards Studio whilst, in a separate commission, Nissen Richards Studio has also created a new Wordsworth Grasmere identity, encompassing all aspects of the site under the aegis of its governing charitable body, The Wordsworth Trust. Exterior view from road:

?Reimagining Wordsworth is a celebration of people, poetry and place, of great literature, created by remarkable people in an inspirational landscape. By reimagining who w...