Ruskin\u2019s bicentenary year will be a momentous one. Exhibitions, activities and events celebrating the life and works of this epoch-defining writer, artist, social thinker and environmentalist will be taking place across the UK and internationally over the next twelve months. You can follow the programme of bicentenary events at www.ruskin200.com<\/a><\/p>\n Here at Lancaster we are already on count-down to our own bicentenary exhibition, which is timed to coincide with the official launch of The Ruskin on 25th<\/sup> September 2019.<\/p>\n For regular visitors to The Ruskin, we appreciate your patience during this period of refurbishment and it is great to welcome you back in person and online. Over the past year, the Ruskin Library, which currently houses the world-leading collection of Ruskin\u2019s works, has been given an external facelift and upgraded, updated and refitted internally to transform the reading rooms and galleries. The Ruskin brings together the Ruskin Library, Museum, and Research Centre within the McCormac\u2019s award-winning building. Our new programme explores how Ruskin\u2019s epoch defining ideas can unlock urgent current and future social, cultural and environmental issues.<\/p>\n Tolstoy wrote of Ruskin that \u2018He was one of those rare men who thinks \u2026 what everyone will think and say in the future\u2019. Our launch exhibition – Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future \u2013 will radically expand on this insight by exploring the importance of Ruskin\u2019s thinking about what it means to be human in an age of technology to some of the most pressing challenges of our own time. Ruskin understood how the future is embedded in the here and now. As his personal motto ‘To-day’ affirms, he was profoundly aware of how the lives we lead in the present set the conditions of the world to come.<\/p>\n In the coming months our blogs, events, exhibitions and research projects will draw on the thousands of Ruskin\u2019s paintings and drawings, books and manuscripts, prints and photographs in our collection to promote debate across the arts and sciences and investigate culture and heritage, landscape and the environment. In relaunching the website, we have made more of Ruskin\u2019s works available online and we\u2019ve started an ambitious programme of digitisation.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be blogging regularly and you can also follow us on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. We\u2019d welcome your ideas and suggestions for our programmes.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, on Thursday 7th<\/sup> February, the eve of Ruskin\u2019s birth, in Lancaster University\u2019s Great Hall, \u2018Ruskin\u2019s Dreams\u2019, a concerto by Lake District composer Edward Cowie, will be performed by performed by the BBC Philharmonic, with clarinettist Julian Bliss<\/a>.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/the-ruskin<\/a> This first blog is by The Ruskin’s Director, Professor Sandra Kemp: John Ruskin\u2019s 200th birthday is just two weeks away. In the run-up to the day, we are pleased to be launching our new blog and website at Lancaster University. Ruskin\u2019s bicentenary year will be a momentous one. 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