Jul 16th 2021 • Collections & Exhibitions, Food, Garden, Highlights
National Cherry Day
National Cherry Day Today is National Cherry Day, a day started as part of a campaign to save the British cherry. During the 20th century Britain lost 90% of its…
Apr 15th 2021 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights
Virtual Tour: Darwin’s Mentor: Walking With Henslow
Did you miss the Henslow exhibition? Why not take a look at this virtual tour to share and celebrate the wonderful exhibition that was Darwin’s Mentor: Walking With Henslow.…
Dec 23rd 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions
Crafty Christmas
We’re a creative bunch here at the museum and Christmas gives us the perfect excuse to get crafty. Aside from developing skills and making nice things, craft has many health…
Dec 9th 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights
Christmas Cards
How do you contact your loved ones at Christmas time? Christmas cards have been used as a way to send festive greetings for hundreds of years, but have you ever…
Aug 23rd 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Community, Highlights
Come Dine With Me- Kiendreogo Tinkouliga
In Abbot’s Hall Dining Room we have a fantasy dinner party, the guests at the table are all significant figures in food and farming and we reserve a guest spot…
Jun 22nd 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights, Volunteering
From Rationing to Plenty
How times have changed. One minute we’re free to go about our daily lives and the next we are obliged to stay at home. But we are not the first…
Jun 8th 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights, Volunteering
Fact or opinion?: Commentary through cartoons
In the run-up to the museum’s exciting travelling exhibition, Fake News in the Age of the Horse, volunteers have been working through some of the museum’s incredible collection to understand…
Apr 17th 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Community, Heritage, Highlights, Industry
Serving the community
Our Search for the Stars project to catalogue all of our c.40,000 objects has been highlighting some fascinating objects in our collection. Many of these are being researched for our…
