Epping Forest District Museum

24/06/2026

Are you a teacher looking for a fun and engaging trip for your class next academic year? 🎓 Then look no further than the Epping Forest District Museum in Waltham Abbey!

As the burial place of the last Anglo-Saxon King, Harold II, our museum is the perfect place to enhance your student's knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons! As part of the session we will walk over to the Abbey church, see King Harold's memorial, and imagine what we would have been able to see 1,000 years ago.

We also offer all the other topics required on the National Curriculum, and our approach focuses on learning through objects and creativity, immersing students in history, and allowing them to imagine what it would have been like to live in the past. We also offer sessions for Nurseries and Pre-schools, as well as Primary and Secondary schools!

The museum also has a wonderful array of Topic Boxes that you can borrow to use with your class for a whole half term!

Contact Victoria on [email protected] or fill out this form https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/anncXCe1Rf to enquire or book!



Waltham Holy Cross Primary Academy Coopersale Hall School

24/06/2026

*STILL A FEW PLACES AVAILABLE!!* 😀🍇

We are really excited to be hosting a wine tasting with local Essex wine maker, Bardfield Vineyard on Friday 26 June to celebrate ! 🍷

We will also be celebrating the Romans' love of wine, giving a quick, fun talk at the start of the tasting on how the Romans made and enjoyed their wine!

The tasting will be led by Rebecca from Bardfield Vineyard, and be very informal, so if you've never been to a wine tasting before, or even if you know a bit about wine, this is for you!

Here are all the details:
🍷 Friday 26 June, 7 - 9pm (the event will start with a short, fun talk on wine in the Ancient Roman world, followed by the tasting with Rebecca. After the tasting you can wander our Roman exhibition with you favourite glass of wine!)
🍷 OVER 18s ONLY - if you are lucky enough to look under 25, please bring ID as we will be have a Check 25 policy
🍷 £20 per person - 4 tasters of Bardfield Wine and nibbles included! There will be the option to buy glasses of your favourite wine to sip whilst exploring the exhibition, and or buy a bottle to take home with you!
🍷 BOOKING ESSENTIAL - you can book online here: www.ticketsource.com/efdmuseum or call us on 01992 716882 or email us on [email protected], or drop in and book at the front desk!

24/06/2026

The summer holidays are just around the corner, let's hope the summer weather lasts until then! ☀️

We've got LOADS of great activities for children over the holidays at the museum, from babies and toddlers to primary age children and even teenagers!!

SUMMER ARCHAEOLOGY CLUB FOR TEENAGERS, FREE
This is fully booked, but we are running a waiting list so we can fill any spaces if people drop out. If you'd like to join the waiting list, contact us as per the poster.

DROP IN CRAFTS ON TUESDAYS AND SATURDAYS, 10:30am - 3:30pm, £3.50 per child
Suitable for 3 - 13 year olds, join us for fun crafts with an Ancient Roman theme! There will also be a sensory play space and a book nook, so under 3s are welcome too!

ART WORKSHOPS ON WEDNESDAYS, 11am - 12pm, £5 per child
Suitable for 7 - 17 year olds, come and learn some new art skills in guided workshops! Booking is ESSENTIAL for these workshops.

STORYTELLING EVENT, Monday 20th July, 2 - 3:30pm, £5 per child
Join local author Craig McCann for an interactive reading of his book The Tidey Spidey. We will be making crafts along the way to help Craig tell the story! Suitable for 0 - 7 year olds.

Book all of these events via our website: www.ticketsource.com/efdmuseum or call us on 01992 716 882, or email us on [email protected]

23/06/2026

Visit us at Library this Saturday 27 June 11am to 1pm!

Explore some of the artefacts in the museum collection related to the Roman settlement of and and find out more about what Epping Forest District Museum CIO has to offer the local community!

Free event – no booking required

Simply drop in to find out more. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Kindly made possible through Community Benefit funding.

Keep It Local Loughton Debden Chigwell Theydon Bois Abridge Buckhurst Hill Chigwell Chigwell School Chigwell Sport And Wellness Centre Epping Forest District Council Essex County Council

23/06/2026

All set up for Toddler Time Travellers, come and join us! 😀 our theme this morning is summer - we've got a sand pit and a water tray in the garden!! ☀️

Our next Toddler Time Travellers is on TOMORROW, Tuesday 23 June! 👶 We'll be in the garden doing some fun activities and crafts!

Join us to sing, craft, play, explore and listen to a story from 10:15 - 11:15. For 0-5s and their adults, £3 per child.

Book online here: https://ow.ly/lUMI50YT7lj or call us on 01992 716882 or email [email protected], or just turn up!

22/06/2026

Our next Toddler Time Travellers is on TOMORROW, Tuesday 23 June! 👶 We'll be in the garden doing some fun activities and crafts!

Join us to sing, craft, play, explore and listen to a story from 10:15 - 11:15. For 0-5s and their adults, £3 per child.

Book online here: https://ow.ly/lUMI50YT7lj or call us on 01992 716882 or email [email protected], or just turn up!

22/06/2026

🌼 Yesterday was the Summer Solstice, marking the first day of Summer, and what better way to celebrate the changing seasons than a lithograph by Walter Spradbery!
This vibrant daisy print was made as a proof for London Transport.
🎨 Walter Spradbery was a prolific designer, painter and poet who produced a variety of posters for London and North-Eastern Railway Southern Railways and London Transport. The numerous posters he designed for London Transport capture the depth of his interest in landscapes and nature, showcasing the bright colours and details of a variety of flowers and plants as demonstrated in this beautiful example.
🌳Spradbery had a particular interest in capturing the bright colours and details of flowers and plants. In this example, you can even see a vibrant green chafer beetle and another chafer beetle on the petals and leaves of the daisies!

21/06/2026

Our next Memory Lane is Tuesday 23 June! The theme will be local jobs - including the factories on the site of what is now Tesco, farming and horticulture 🥬🍅

Join us to see objects and photographs related to local industry!

Tuesday 28 April, 11:15 - 12:30, £3.50 per person, tea, coffee and biscuits included!

Book online here: www.ticketsource.com/efdmuseum or call us on 01992 716882, or email us on [email protected], or just drop in!

📷: Andrew Rumsey riding tricycle at Park Farm Nursery, Sewardstone Road; glasshouses to either side. around 1962.
Information from Andrew Rumsey:
The greenhouses on the right are 'tomato' houses and its is high summer as the doors are open to dissipate the heat. The greenhouses on the left are 'chrysanth houses' where florists cut chrysanthemums were grown (also asters and stocks). The cut flowers, tomatoes and cucumbers and later 'pot mums' were sold to market at Covent Garden, Spitalfields and Brentford markets.

21/06/2026

Our next Toddler Time Travellers is on Tuesday 23 June! 👶 We'll be in the garden doing lots of fun activities and crafts!

Join us to sing, craft, play, explore and listen to a story from 10:15 - 11:15. For 0-5s and their adults, £3.50 per child.

Book online here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/efdmuseum or call us on 01992 716882 or email [email protected], or just turn up!