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Beningborough Hall Case Study

Turning Heads

The final room of 'Making Faces' considers the production and meaning of 3-D portraits. The gallery has eight sculptures, three paintings and four interactive stations. These displays are supported by more in-depth thematic In Focus pick-ups on each of the key themes explored.

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/beninfocus.asp

Three Men in Togas

Introduces the qualities and constraints of the three main eighteenth-century sculptural materials: marble, bronze and terracotta, with specially made tactile sculptures.

Hands-on Heads

Encourages people to explore two facsimile sculptures in detail by touch. One of these is a specially made laser scanned marble facsimile of Captain Cook, commissioned from Conservation Technologies, Liverpool Museums.

Touching Cook

This replica reproduces the feel of marble as well as the shape of the sculpture. In the background is a giant, marble ear from the Three Men in Togas interactive - the other two ears are made of terracotta and bronze.
(c) National Portrait Gallery, London

Nose Job

Encourages people to try their hand at modelling a new nose for two adapted resin mask based on the Capt Cook sculpture.

Nose Job

The two replica faces, without noses, of Captain James Cook, with the modelling material for visitors to make noses to try on his face.
(c) National Portrait Gallery, London

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