Moonrakers
Tomorrow we are delighted to be hosting Moonrakers!
Following on from the Wassailing themed History Hunters crafting sessions tomorrow join us to sing some traditional Wassailing songs including:
Here we come a wassailing
Boars Head carol
Holly and Ivy
Mrs Merry's Ball
Sorrows Away
3-4pm. Song sheets are provided and Jon will take you through the songs and talk about the traditions behind them.
We would like to thank Jon from Moonrakers for giving his time for this activity.
For more information please call 01865 897519 or visit our website: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/events/children-and-family-event-oxfordshire-museum/wassailing-songs-jon-bennett-moonrakers
Open Art Exhibition 2024
Our Open Art Exhibition 2024 is now open!
Come along and see the incredible artworks of our 50 finalists from across Oxfordshire and vote for your favourite in our Peoples Choice Award.
The exhibition is open until 30 October in our Garden Gallery.
Free admission.
For more information please call 01865 897519.
We're starting to look through our #Palaeolithic objects and creating a short list of what may appear in our Ice Age exhibition next summer. Boxes have been opened revealing flint handaxes, scrapers, quartzite choppers and bones. How many tools can we use to tell the story?
Where were the archaeology objects in our collection found? As it turns out, almost all over #Oxfordshire. The map shows the parishes where the #Palaeolithic finds, #Mesolithic, #Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, #Roman, Early Medieval, and #Medieval finds were found.
Do the maps show where, for example, Roman activity took place in Oxfordshire? Or where an archaeological intervention (excavations or metal detecting) occurred on a Roman site and new sites are yet to be discovered? Why are some parishes still blank? What are we missing in our collection? These are the ponderings of a curator when looking at such maps! #CuratorLife
Are you taking part in No Mow May? Here’s a photo from our Oxfordshire Museum Resource Centre near Standlake, looking blooming marvellous!
It's not too late to take part – leaving longer between mows or areas unmown throughout summer will still help our precious pollinators and local wildlife!
You can find out more about wildlife friendly gardening on the Climate Action Oxfordshire website - https://climateactionoxfordshire.org.uk/articles/no-mow-may
A Mystery Box
What would you love your Webbers mystery box to contain.
Webbers Dress box containing three shirts. Two Elliston and Cavell leaflets. Their connection is a complete mystery. The only thing we know is they all came from Oxford.
Belonged to Jack Joslin a Farmer from Bladon and Easington Manor Farm during the depression in the 1930's. After the 2nd Wolrd War he worked for Morris Motors.
We are going on a bear hunt.
As part of our Exhibition starting in January on John Betjeman and his special bears Archie and Jumbo. We would like people across Oxfordshire to loan us their bears to join Archie and Jumbo in this special exhibition.
If you have a bear with a special story to tell please get in touch with us! Email: [email protected]
One of Angie’s favourite items is the gold bead dating to the 7th century. Normally necklaces of this period are found in high status graves of women.
It’s rare to find just one bead, was it accidently dropped? Were other beads found in the past? It raises lots of questions and gets the imagination going.
You can see the gold spacer bead and many more unseen treasures in our making an entrance exhibition until the 3 September - www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/makinganentrance
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