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Saturday 10, Sunday 11 and Monday 12 February 2024, 6pm - 9pm | outside of Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, and in the Arboretum area. Every year, Love the Arbo puts on a light festival celebrating the Arboretum area. Residents decorate their windows in a family friendly trail for all to explore. In 2024, the theme is Wild about Windows! Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum is joining in with [...]
Bank Holiday Monday 27 May, 10am - 4pm | The Commandery Step back in time to 1660 and celebrate the restoration of the crown on Bank Holiday Monday in a fantastic day bringing history to life in Worcester. Oak Apple Day marks the historic moment when King Charles II returned to the throne following the English Civil War. Where better to commemorate this historic moment than at The Commandery, the Royalist [...]
Friday 18 October, 6.30 - 9pm | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum What takes place in the museum after dark... in October? The most spookalicious Museum After Hours, of course! Have a bop to hauntingly good tunes, sip a blood-curdling cocktail, and dress up in your most frightening finery in one of Worcester's most iconic Victorian buildings. Free entry; cash bar. Plan your visit to Worcester City Art Gallery and [...]
Tuesday 29, Wednesday 30, Thursday 31 October, 10.30am - 12noon | The Commandery Have lots of fun in the spookiest of half-term holidays… Make a chatting clothes-peg skeleton, weave a spider web, and create an egg-carton mini monster as The Commandery becomes a haunted house once more! There’ll also be a haunted house trail which you can follow and explore all the nooks and crannies of The Commandery. Every session includes [...]
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September | Various venues around Worcester Worcester Heritage Weekend 2023 is a celebration of the city's heritage taking place across Worcester on the second weekend of September. Here's what's on at Museums Worcestershire: Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Saturday 9 September; open from 10.30am - 4.30pm. Immerse yourself in the vibrant 1980s on the final day of the summer exhibition, I Grew Up 80s. Free [...]
Friday 2 April - Sunday 18 April (excluding Monday 12 April). Join us at The Commandery this Easter break! We are opening up our beautiful, walled gardens for a free Family Fun Fitness trail, so why not come and see if you can complete all of the tasks and enjoy some exercise in the fresh air with your family? Click here to download a trail guide in advance - this is [...]
Saturday 1 October to Saturday 7 January | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum How many dogs can you spot in Canaletto's paintings? What did canals really smell like in the past? Explore the autumn exhibition, Canaletto: A Venetian's View, with a fun family activity sheet to look into the world of this famous painter. The activity sheet is £1 to purchase from the gallery shop, or can be downloaded for [...]
Friday 9 - Saturday 31 October 2020 Join in with a fun search and find event for all the family at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, to celebrate the release of the new Where’s Wally? book, Spooky Spotlight Search - perfect for Halloween! Hunt for Wally amongst our collections, spell out a spooky phrase with letters hidden alongside mini Wally standees, and receive a special “I found Wally!” bookmark on [...]
About us Museums Worcestershire comprises three fantastic venues – The County Museum at Hartlebury Castle, Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum and The Commandery. Museums Worcestershire is a not-for-profit museums service run in partnership between Worcester City Council and Worcestershire County Council. The collections and exhibitions at our sites are many and varied, covering centuries of the county's history right up to the present day. Thousands of objects, including the [...]
Key Stages 2 and 3, for 45 minutes. Immerse yourself in the chaos of civil war as you learn about the life of soldiers during this divisive time in our history. 'Arms and Armour' is a hands-on activity covering the role of the common soldier (The Pikeman, Musketeer and Dragoon) with a chance to see weaponry and armour. The session can also involve an explanation of The Commandery's role before [...]
