Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Diamond Jubilee Half Term Activity
Remember we also have our 'Finds Identification Day' (see poster further down) on Saturday 19th May, 11am - 3pm. Suitable for any age and FREE!
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Current Library Exhibition: Embroidery Samplers from the 18th& 19th Centuries
On Saturday 5 May 2012 Wisbech & Fenland Museum will be holding a temporary display of 18th and 19th century embroidery samplers from the museum’s collection. The free display will be held in the library and will be open from 11am till 3pm. This display will be a chance to see examples of embroidery that are usually not on public display, and haven’t been so for a number of years.
Included will be pieces worked on by local school girls, such as: Hannah Tuck and Ann Falter from Upwell and Sarah Elizabeth Coulson from Rings End. Also on display is an impressive mourning sampler from 1864 by Elizabeth Booth, this sampler is a memorial for several of her family members. Some of the samplers are especially detailed and eye-catching, including one by Ann Mackman dating from 1825 which includes several embroidered images, including a house, animals and flowers.
The museum would also like to ask members of the public who visit the display if they have any information on the embroiderers whose work is featured, as the history of those who once lived in Wisbech and its surrounding areas is of great interest.
This display on embroidery samplers also coincides with an interesting exhibition of modern textile art by the Fen Edge Embroidery group held in the museum’s Hudson room, allowing visitors to see how this art form has evolved over the past three hundred years.
The exhibition can be viewed at other times by prior appointment.
The exhibition has been curated by Sophie Woods from Terrington St. Clements, who is studying Fashion and Dress History at the University of Brighton.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Monday, 19 March 2012
Hastings' Wisbech: views of Wisbech in the 1960s
The Museum's current exhibition, which runs until the 30th March, showcases the drawings of Geoff Hastings which are based on his photographic survey of Wisbech in the 1960s. Many of the buildings featured have seen drastic changes or are simply no longer there.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Dickens First Day Cover now available to order
The Wisbech Museum and All Saints' Church, Walsoken, have come together to produce a limited edition first day cover to mark the bi-centenary of the birth of Charles Dickens. The cover will include stamps with a Dickensian theme.
Only 280 covers will be produced and signed covers will be limited to 20 of each name and will include:
Gillian Anderson, Douglas Booth, Simon Callow, Dame Judi Dench, Gerald Dickens, Stephen Fry, Sir George Martin CBE and Ron Moody. Patrick Stewart is already sold out!
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
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