#029 May 2018 Dorset County Museum Volunteer Newsletter With effect from 1st January 2018, tickets must be booked for all lectures. DNHAS members £3.00, nonmembers £5. You can book on line or at the front desk.
Thursday 31st May Hardy Talk: Helen Angear will talk about Thomas Hardy’s Fan Mail. 7.00pm for 7.30pm in the Museum.
Welcome to Issue No.29 of DCMVOX… Items for the “My Favourite Object” or any other suggestions are welcome for the next and subsequent issues of DCMVOX. E-mail to Anna : secretary@dorsetcountymuseum.org
Dorset County Museum—Wessex Museums Partnership National Portfolio Organisation Monday 14th May 2018—9.15am
Please note that the meeting scheduled for Monday 14th May has been has been cancelled.
Wednesday 30th May Children’s Activity Morning FREE 10.30am to 12.30pm
Museum Closures
Fashion in the time of Charlotte Bronte Our very own Lucy Johnston will be giving a talk on ‘Fashion in the time of Charlotte Bronte’ on Monday 18 June at 2.30pm in St Mary’s Hall, Alexandra Road, Dorchester. All are welcome, and the entry fee of £2.50 includes refreshments and raffle. For further information please phone Rosemary (262615) or Jill (263757)
Please note that the museum will be closed to the public all day on Tuesday 8th May and Monday 14th May These closures are related to the Dippy de-install programme. This closure also applies to all volunteers Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience
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Visitor Quote of the Month: Dippy is much, much more impressive in the smaller space—great to be able to get to head height.
Image of the Month—May —Martin Graham
From the Director Tonight (Friday 27th April) I have been absolutely amazed, humbled and thankful to receive The Mayor of Dorchester's Award for 2018 in recognition of “your outstanding contribution to our town'. The Museum was the venue for a mayoral reception and I was caught completely off guard as I had absolutely no idea this was going to happen. Thank you to Susie Hosford and everyone at Dorchester Town Council for this very kind and thoughtful gesture of appreciation.
May Queen & Maypole , West Fordington Glass slide 1895
J R Le B Tomlin—Geoff Turnock (Natural History)
Thank you also to all the team of staff and volunteers at Dorset County Museum who are helping us make such a contribution to our community - you're doing an amazing job!!!
J.R. le B. Tomlin (1864-1954) was an eminent British malacologist. The National Museum of Wales holds the Melvill-Tomlin collection of 786,000 shells. DCM has a modest collection made by Tomlin, which came to us via the Philpot Museum in 1979. What is amusing is that the specimens are stored in labelled matchboxes, as the close-up photograph shows. We picture the collector on a windswept beach continually having to relight his pipe, thereby generating mini-storage boxes for his specimens. It is a moot point whether the shells or the antique matchboxes are the more important!
Welcome to our new volunteers:
Art team, Freda Ellis to Archaeology , Kim Thompson to the Barnes team and Mark Hamblin to Digitisation. After Dippy’s departure and the Under the provisions of the Data commencement of the Museum Protection regulations, we shall soon works, life is going to start changing (after Dippy’s departure) be ensuring for us all, but we will still have room that our Volunteer database for more volunteers. We need you complies fully with all legal all! requirements; please bear with us Thank you for your continuing hard when you start receiving emails—and work and dedication during what has it will make our job much easier if been an exciting if exhausting three Jill Minchin you ensure that you reply! months. Volunteer This month we have welcomed Helen Co-ordinator and Trustee Bevis and Hannah Rose to our Fine