Houghton Revisited

HOUGHTON REVISITED

In 2013 Houghton staged a ground-breaking reconstruction of Sir Robert Walpole’s picture collection, which had been sold in its entirety to Catherine the Great in 1779. The exhibition was a collaboration with the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburgh, and attracted 115,000 visitors over nearly six months. It won both the Hudson Heritage Award for Best Event and Apollo Magazine’s Exhibition of the Year award.