Sep 16th 2020 • Community, Heritage, Highlights
Museum Visit Guidelines (Updated September 2020)
The Museum and the Osier Cafe are open Tuesday-Sunday. You do not have to pre-book your admission to the Museum. But, it will help us and help you move through…
Sep 8th 2020 • Community, Garden, Highlights, Volunteering
Soil Solace: Gardening through lockdown
There’s no doubt that the restrictions of lockdown gave many people a renewed appreciation of nature and the outdoors. I am amongst the many people who applied for an allotment…
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…
Jul 3rd 2020 • Highlights
Museum reopening
The Museum and the Osier Cafe reopen on Thursday 16 July and we’re excited to welcome you back. You do not have to pre-book your admission to the Museum. But,…
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…
May 11th 2020 • Community, Highlights
Parkland open for Silver and Gold members’ daily exercise
In light of the Prime Minister’s latest update (Sunday 10 May) and the encouragement to take exercise, we have made the decision that we will open the grounds of the…
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…
