The new Drawing Office at Cylinders was completed in 2018. Acknowledgements to the Cumbria Fells & Dales LEADER+ programme, and their helpful management team. Newly rendered and painted The opening of the new little museum and reading-room is scheduled for … Continue reading →

Cylinders, site of the Merz Barn, the morning after Storm Arwen (November 27th). Our great cypress has gone – but see how it missed doing much greater damage! (Took the sewage pipe out however). Total damage has yet to be … Continue reading →

November 2020 It has been a long time since we have issued an update on the Merz Barn.  Like the rest of the country we have been hoping for a let-up in the Covid-19 pandemic, or the arrival of a viable … Continue reading →

IPPON GALLERY EXHIBITION: Gustav Metzger & Kurt Schwitters at the Merz Barnfrom October 9th 2021. Photo Debbie Akam. Installation by Cian Quayle and Ian Hunter. Sound installations by Christopher Fox and Marc McKiernan. Vintage Flit gun as used by Metzger … Continue reading →

Exhibition   9 October – 15 November 2021. Open daily 10am – 5pm Two works by Gustav Metzger (1926-2017) – Rubbish Bag (1960/2021) and Dancing Tubes (2014) – will be installed at the Merz Barn, Elterwater, the site of Kurt Schwitters’ last great (unfinished) work. … Continue reading →

From 6 pm, July 7th 2021 Shippon Gallery, The Merz Barn, Cylinders, Langdale, Ambleside LA22 9JB Invitation to Film Screening & a Talk celebrating Prism Arts 2 year outreach arts programme exploring the life and times of Kurt Schwitters The Fragments … Continue reading →

Invitation to the Opening of FRAGMENTS LOST AND FOUND, an Exhibition by Prism Arts which coincides with Schwitters’ birthday on June 20th, and in conjunction with Refugee Week. 2 pm, Sunday June 20th at the Shippon Gallery, Merz Barn, Elterwater, … Continue reading →

WELCOME! From Friday April 30th Cylinders, the Merz Barn, and the Harry Pierce Drawing Office will be open from 10am to 5pm daily We are happy to announce that Cylinders, the Merz Barn, and the Harry Pierce Drawing Office will … Continue reading →

We have come to the sad decision that Cylinders and the MERZ BARN should be closed until there is better news on the health front. As soon as we can safely do so the site will re-open, and everyone will … Continue reading →