have been made to visitor facilities (shop, cafe and toilets); galleries (new Fashion & Textile gallery, Silver gallery and English Interiors gallery); and study/learning facilities. The three art galleries, on the second floor of the museum, were updated at the same time. The museum holds temporary exhibitions, and has shown works by Monet, Raphael, Turner, Sisley, Gallé, William Morris, and Toulouse-Lautrec. The BBC announced in 2013 that a Portrait of Olivia Porter was a previously unknown Anthony van Dyck painting. It had been found in the Bowes Museum storeroom by art historian Dr. Bendor Grosvenor who had observed it on-line at the Your Paintings web site. The painting itself was covered in layers of varnish and dirt, and had not been renovated. It was originally thought to be a copy, and valued at between £3,000 to £5,000. Christopher Brown, director of the Ashmolean Museum, confirmed it was a van Dyck after it had been restored. Further reading Charles E. Hardy – John Bowes and the Bowes Museum (1970, reprinted 1982) Caroline Chapman – John and Josephine: The Creation of The Bowes Museum (2010) Lindsay Macnaughton – Staging and Collecting French History: John and Joséphine Bowes, c.1845-1885 (2021) Durham University PhD Thesis Judith Phillips – National Identity, Gender, Social Status and Cultural Aspirations in Mid-Nineteenth Century England and France: Joséphine Bowes (1825-1874), Collector and Museum Creator (2020) Simon Spier – Creating The Bowes Museum, c.1858-1917: Private Collecting and the Art Market in the Public Art Museum (2021) University of Leeds PhD Thesis References External links Paintings from the Bowes Museum on VADS Information from the 24 Hour Museum The Bowes Museum at Google Cultural Institute Art museums and galleries in County Durham Museums in County Durham Decorative arts museums in England Second Empire architecture Grade I listed buildings in County Durham Former private collections in the United Kingdom Fashion museums in the United Kingdom Art museums established in 1892 1892 establishments in England Barnard Castle