Lakeland Arts
Lakeland Arts is an English charitable company, successor to the Lakeland Arts Trust, based in the Lake District. It operates Blackwell The Arts & Crafts House near Windermere, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and the Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry both in Kendal, and which re-opened in March 2019.
Lakeland Arts was established in 2013 as a charitable company, taking over the assets and responsibilities of the former Lakeland Arts Trust. It is one of the three members of the Cumbria Museum Consortium, along with the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust in Carlisle and the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. In 2012-15 and 2015-18 this consortium was one of the 21 museums or consortia to be funded by Arts Council England as "Major Partner Museums".
