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Calling all Swindon primary teachers! To celebrate the launch of our new Learning Programme for schools - join us on 27th Feb for our first Teacher Twilight event! Find more information and RSVP on our website – We’re looking forward to seeing you!
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📢 Meet the Curator: Simon Costin! Join us at Museum & Art Swindon on Fri 28 Feb, 2pm, as Simon—Director of the Museum of British Folklore & co-curator of Un/Common People—shares insights into folk culture, exhibitions & his unique journey. 🎟️ Book now:
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Happy Birthday Alfred Williams! 🎈 The 7th of Feb is #Swindon’s #folksong & #folktale hero Williams’ 148th birthday. 🎵 He cared deeply for the #folkculture he saw around him, traveling miles by bike to collect over 800 songs. To find out more:
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Coming Soon... Working with the Friends of Museum & Art Swindon on a new exhibition. Aiming to demonstrate the depth of our art collection, developed over the past 80 years. For more info visit:
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During half-term, on Tues 18th Feb, the brilliant artist Amy Peck will be running FREE lantern-making workshops for families at Museum & Art Swindon. Work together as a family to make a beautiful willow & tissue paper lantern to take home. Find out more:
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It’s the final week of ‘Hardy’s Wessex’ & ‘Wessex Landscapes’! Don’t miss your last chance to see these 2 exhibitions exploring the inspiring landscape of Wessex! Both exhibitions are on show until Sat 8th Feb & admission is FREE!
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We’re so excited about the first-ever #Swindon #Wellbeing #Festival at @steam_museum this weekend! There’s a whole event programme included with a day ticket, all designed to help you improve your overall wellbeing. Book your tickets online!
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🎶#Folkmusic is music of the people – all over the world. This sarangi from our collection of musical instruments features in our @WessexMuseums partnership exhibition #UnCommonPeople. It has a simple design of inlaid fish & would have been played with a bow. 🎵 On until 8 March.
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Come along to our Activity Space on Sat 1 Feb & meet textile artist Sophia Bullock & women from the Harbour Textile Group. Try your hand at simple embroidery and applique! It's FREE & open to all ages. Drop-in between 2pm & 4pm, no need to book. #folkculture #UnCommonPeople
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#WessexWednesday #CreativeWessex These Thomas Hardy sketches depict quarrying in Swanage & Beeny Cliff in Cornwall, settings that inspired Hardy’s writing. View them in the @WessexMuseums exhibition 'Hardy's Wessex’ until 8th Feb. Admission FREE!
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Get to know more of our art collection by visiting “Art on our Doorstep”! Co-curated with our @ace_national #UnlockingCollections volunteers, this exciting exhibition includes artworks that are on public display for the first time. Art on our Doorstep is on until 5 April.
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It’s #January & we’re all dreaming of holidays & summertime. Maybe you fancy sailing away? These #folkart #model ships won’t get you very far, but what were the people who made them dreaming of? These model ships are part of our @WessexMuseums Un/Common People exhibition #folk
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The Swindon Stegosaur has returned! We are pleased to announce a new acquisition to Museum & Art Swindon – a vertebra from a Stegosaur found in Swindon. The vertebra is now on display in our Swindon Rocks gallery. Come and find out this unique piece of Swindon’s Jurassic past.
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Did you know that 125 years ago today, Swindon Municipal Authority was formed bringing Old & New Swindon together for the first time? Why not come & see the official seals of the Borough (1900) and a set of 1920s mayoral robes at Museum & Art Swindon!
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#HardysWessex has been popular with the Coffee & Conversation group! Altaj likes the photo of #ThomasHardy & his 1st wife as 'he wrote about women & the issues they struggled with’. Anastasia likes Kate Hardy’s dress 'because of its beauty & Kate’s story’. On until 8th February.
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Come & try our brand-new family trail – Time for Tea! Find out what Stone Age humans ate, how Romans kept their food cool, & why there were once more cows than people in Swindon! Museum admission & trail FREE. Available Tue to Sat 10.30am to 4.30pm.
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Come & make some folk art at our Art Drop-In! The Activity Space at the Museum is open every Saturday in January between 11am and 3pm. Suitable for all ages, including adults! Entry to the Art Drop-In and the Museum is FREE. Donations welcomed. No need to book.
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Have you recently started a #crafting #hobby? Are you looking for #inspiration? Look no further than our wonderful cavalcade of #folkart in our @WessexMuseums exhibition Un/Common People – from seed pictures, to corn dollies, to #Warhammer, to #embroidery it’s all here.
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And it’s back! The #wassail bowl in our @WessexMuseums exhibition has been at the @RJ_MUSEUM wassail to help wake up the apple trees! @chantelle_song who leads the wassail has sent us a picture of it in the wild! What folk events will you be going to this winter?
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