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Collections Centre Tours: Rediscovering Worcestershire’s Art Collection

Tuesday 17 May 2022 | Collections Centre (Hartlebury) Hear from the curators who care for this small county collection at its home in the Museums Worcestershire stores. Find out about fascinating recent research into the artworks, how they have been cleaned and conserved, and the stories that they hold. Book: 01299 250416 Email: museum@worcestershire.gov.uk Want to delve further into our collections? For a full list of store tours in 2022 visit: Collections [...]

By |2022-04-06T14:23:33+01:00April 6th, 2022|0 Comments

Talks by the Battle of Worcester Society

Various dates, 7pm | The Commandery The Battle of Worcester Society are back with a series of talks hosted in the historic setting of The Commandery. Thursday 28 April - Howard Robinson: 'The Monarch's Way'. Thursday 19 May - Dr Imogen Peck, University of Coventry, 'Recollections in the Republic - Memories of the British Civil Wars in England 1649 - 1651'. Thursday 23 June - Robbie Porter, BoWs Executive Committee member, [...]

By |2022-05-26T09:22:16+01:00April 6th, 2022|0 Comments

The 9th International Festival of Town Pipers

Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 May (Saturday 14 May at The Commandery) | The Commandery The 9th International Festival of Town Pipers is taking place in Worcester in 2022 with performances at The Commandery, the Tudor House Museum, Greyfriars House and Garden, and the Guildhall. The streets will come alive to the sound of shawms, sackbuts, bagpipes and other early instruments, as the Guild of Town Pipers comes to town. This [...]

By |2022-05-05T11:20:39+01:00May 5th, 2022|0 Comments

Christmas at The Commandery – family sessions

Various dates in December, 10.30am - 12noon | The Commandery Get festive at the historic Commandery in Worcester this December! Make your own gingerbread man decoration and house craft, see what you can create with gingerbread playdoh, and get stuck into some Christmas colouring. Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December Tuesday 20 and Thursday 22 December Every session ends with a story, drink and a [...]

By |2022-11-21T11:54:33+00:00October 28th, 2022|0 Comments

Bite-size talk: Dame Laura Knight: recently acquired paintings

Tuesday 13 June 2023 ,  2 - 2.30pm | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Two exciting new acquisitions to the collection were made in 2022 and are on display for the first time in the spring exhibition, From the Cornish Coast to the Malvern Hills: British Impressionism from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Senior Curator, Deborah Fox, and Vardo Officer, Georgie Stevens, introduce the two fantastic paintings by Dame Laura [...]

By |2023-06-13T14:40:37+01:00January 5th, 2023|0 Comments

Bite-size Talk: The Peter Collins Story

Tuesday 14 November,  1 - 1.30 and 2 - 2.30pm | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum A tribute to Worcestershire motor-racing hero Peter Collins, competing for the Formula One World Championship in motorsport’s most glamourous and dangerous era. Learn how a Kidderminster-born motor enthusiast became the rising star in the Ferrari Formula One team and won the admiration of Enzo Ferrari. Discover the real Peter from personal accounts of those [...]

By |2023-05-23T13:06:45+01:00January 5th, 2023|0 Comments

Family Mornings – Crafty Construction!

Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, Thursday 23 February | The Commandery Hard hats and high vis at the ready this February half-term holiday! Get hands-on in the real-world construction area and see what you can create in this family morning for all those ace engineers out there. Can you build a bridge? And what can you make with Lego? Enjoy sensory play tables and fun colouring in too. Every session ends with [...]

By |2023-02-20T14:17:49+00:00January 25th, 2023|0 Comments

Bite-size Talk | Costume Highlights

Tuesday 10 September 2024, 2 - 2.30pm | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum The Worcester City collection is home to an extensive costume collection, featuring gloves, uniforms, shoes, and dresses for a variety of occasions and from different periods of history. Many of these items hold personal stories of Worcestershire people and also reflect the local shops and tailors that would have been frequented in various decades. Recent cataloguing of [...]

By |2024-01-03T15:52:00+00:00January 3rd, 2024|Comments Off on Bite-size Talk | Costume Highlights

Talk | Laura Knight in Cornwall with Alison Bevan

Saturday 16 March 2024, 11am - 12noon | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Enjoy an illustrated talk by Alison Bevan BEM BA FMA, Director RWA (Royal West of England Academy), about Laura Knight's relationship with the Newlyn School and Lamorna art colonies, and the lifelong friendships she formed in her Cornish years, including Alfred Munnings, Ella Naper, Eileen Mayo and Bernard Walke. The talk will last approximately 1 hour and [...]

By |2024-02-07T12:58:21+00:00February 7th, 2024|Comments Off on Talk | Laura Knight in Cornwall with Alison Bevan

From Plough to Plate

Farming and growing has been and still is the primary use of land in Worcestershire. Visit the agricultural gallery to discover how food for a ploughman's lunch is produced in the county. Explore the processes of collecting an apple from the orchards, salad from the market gardens, butter and cheese from the dairy farms, bread from arable farms and hops to flavour your beer. Watch film footage of farming in [...]

By |2023-08-01T10:09:55+01:00November 28th, 2018|, , , |0 Comments
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