Animal Therapy: The Cats of Louis Wain reintroduces the public to the resplendent work of this lately overlooked figure.
10am to 5pm
Beckenham
Ends on Sat 2nd April
2021-12-04
2022-04-02
Bethlem Museum of the Mind Map
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to wear a face mask when visiting?
The UK government does not require face masks to be work indoors at the moment, but many venues ask people to wear them, and can refuse entry if they need to.
What's the nearest railway station to Bethlem Museum of the Mind
The nearest station is West Wickham which is 0.6 miles away.
One Christmas, a patient in a psychiatric hospital was asked to help with the decorations, and he painted Jesus on a mirror, but no ordinary Jesus, this was Jesus as a cat, and the patient was Louis Wain.
This artwork is a materialisation of the paranoid delusion of James Tilly Matthews, a Bethlem patient of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
In this solo show, artist-photographer Mark Neville documents the everyday life of Bethlem Royal Hospital, the oldest residential psychiatric treatment facility in the UK.
