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Tuesday 13 July, 1:30pm Join Museums Worcestershire's curators on the 2nd Tuesday of each month for a series of talks about the collections. The year is 1845 and HMS Rattlesnake is due to set sail from Plymouth on a voyage down to Australia to produce hydrographic surveys of the area. Find out what else they got up to, and the items they bought back to Worcester, with Kerry Whitehouse our World [...]
Tues 8 June, 1:30pm - Titanic Stories Join Museums Worcestershire curators on the 2nd Tuesday of each month for a series of talks about the collections. Accompanying our Titanic: Honour & Glory exhibition, hear true stories of love and loss in the lives of those on board the HMS Titanic, including local Worcestershire people. This event will run online. Online talks are free but donations are welcomed, and registration is compulsory. Bite [...]
Tues 11 May, 1.30pm Join Museums Worcestershire curators on the 2nd Tuesday of each month for a series of talks about the collections. Discover links to both sides of Worcestershire's slave trade - those who sought to abolish it and those who benefited from it - in the Museum's Numismatics (coins & medals) Collection, with numismatist Dr. Murray Andrews. Online bite size talks are approximately 15 minutes long, plus time for [...]
Saturday 1 October 2022 – Saturday 7 January 2023 | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Celebrating the wonderful work of Canaletto, this exhibition features stunning paintings from Woburn Abbey, Tate, Compton Verney, and Birmingham Museums Trust - together with artworks from Worcester’s Fine Art Collection. Canaletto revolutionised the use of colour, ground and canvas and pioneered the technique of painting from life, sitting in front of the subject outdoors as [...]
Visit The Commandery all year with a Worcester Residents' Pass Worcester residents can celebrate The Commandery’s history with the Worcester Resident Pass - visit through the year from only £7.95. The Commandery has seen a thousand years of Worcester’s history unfold and has always been there for the people of Worcester as a place of shelter or learning. From its beginnings as a monastic hospital and becoming the Royalist [...]
Suitcase Stories - Project Symposium, 2020 This is an online symposium of Suitcase Stories, a health and well-being project which took place in Worcestershire and was led in partnership between Museums Worcestershire and Arts Uplift CIC. The project worked with people living with dementia and their carers in 133 sessions which encouraged participation and reminiscence through museum objects and live music. The symposium is split into five sections, [...]
The Commandery's History The Commandery has served various purposes throughout its long existence. Numerous historical, archaeological and architectural research projects have taken place over recent years, and there are no doubt many mysteries yet to be discovered. Built on the site of an early medieval chapel, The Commandery has been a monastic hospital, family home, Royalist Civil War headquarters, a college for the blind, and [...]
What's on for families this May! From Civil War soldiers to ancient Romans and block printing, there is so much to enjoy at the museums in the May half-term holiday! At The Commandery Celebrate the anniversary of the restoration of the crown in 1660 in a brilliant day out for all the family! There'll be: Fantastic reenactors to encounter Musket firing [...]
Professor Peter Gaunt is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Chester. He is also Chairman of The Cronwell Association. He is the third speaker in the 2019 Civil War Nights programme. The talks take place in the historic Great Hall of The Commandery where seating is limited, so we would advise pre-booking for all talks. The Commandery Cafe will remain open from 5pm until the talk starts should you wish to [...]
School visits to The Commandery Learning from across the centuries The Commandery is the perfect place to inspire pupils’ curiosity about the past. It brings local and national history to life with a whole host of hands-on activities and workshops for all ages and abilities. All of our activities are led by experienced staff and support specific schemes of work whilst also helping pupils to make cross-curricular links [...]
