What's On April - September 2013

WINCHESTER MUSEUMS

What’s On

April 2013 – September 2013

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Winchester Museums

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Westgate W Museum

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if walls could talk...

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City W Museum

The Square – near Winchester Cathedral Postcode: SO23 9ES Tel: 01962 863 064

High Street – close to Great Hall Postcode: SO23 9AP Tel: 01962 869 864

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Galleries tell the story of Winchester through 2000 years Mosaics from Roman Winchester Models of the Anglo-Saxon and medieval city Reconstructed 19th and 20th century shops Hands-on activities, quizzes and replica children’s historical costumes Audio Guide

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Opening Times

Apr–Oct Mon–Sat 10am–5pm Sun noon–5pm Nov–Mar Tue–Sat 10am–4pm Sun noon–4pm Free admission Lift to all floors

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Fortified medieval gateway with roof top city views Ancient walls covered in prisoners’ graffiti Objects from Tudor and Stuart Winchester Unique collection of weights and measures Stunning Tudor ceiling Armour and a gibbet Brass rubbing, child-size armour and quizzes Gift shop

Opening Apr–Oct Sat 10am–5pm Times Sun noon–5pm Nov– Closed Feb halfterm Feb halfterm– Sat 10am–4pm Mar Sun noon–4pm Free admission Steep stone stairs with handrail

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Winchester Discovery Centre – Jewry Street Postcode: SO23 8SB Tel: 01962 873 610

Winchester Guildhall – In the Broadway Postcode: SO23 9GH Tel: 01962 840 222

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A changing programme of exhibitions, ranging from displays drawn from the vast collections held by Winchester City Council’s museums service to installations by some of our talented local artists Art activity area during exhibitions

Opening Times

All year

Mon–Fri 10am–6pm Sat 10am–5pm Sun 11am–3pm Bank Holidays closed

Free admission Winchester Discovery Centre is family friendly, with lifts, toilets and baby changing facilities. There is disabled access.

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Access to museum archives, collections and information including photographs Free finds identification service Education and outreach services

Access to staff and collections by appointment

Free Admission Access via the street level Guildhall Reception

A warm welcome from the team at Winchester Museums We hope you enjoy reading all about the City Museum, Westgate and City Space, and our exciting programme of events taking place during the next few months.

Come along to the City Museum and Westgate and discover Winchester’s fascinating history from its prehistoric past to the present day. Find out the stories behind the museums’ collections of amazing objects. Our exciting displays are all about learning and having fun at the same time.

Our City Space gallery in the Discovery Centre shows an exciting programme of

temporary exhibitions which are accompanied by activities and events for all ages. For more in-depth enquiries you are welcome to contact us.

The museum team will do our very best to ensure that you have an enjoyable visit.

We would love to know what

you think about your visit, and do hope that you will come back to visit us again.

The Museums Team museums@winchester.gov.uk

Map showing locations of Museums in Winchester

City Space

Westgate Winchester Museums Office

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Events

EVENTS APRIL – SEPTEMBER 2013 APRIL

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Until Tue 30 April Guildhall, first floor entrance

Trading in Stone A selection of stoneware vessels of all shapes and sizes from the Winchester Museums collections, many of which prominently display the names of local traders and their products. Guildhall opening hours only.

Sat 18 May – Sun 9 June

Sat 20 April – Sun 12 May

City Space

City Space

Winchester Photographic Society Annual Exhibition 2013

Artful Celebrate the arrival of summer with this vibrant and colourful

exhibition by a local group of like-minded professional artists and makers, living and working around the Fulflood area of Winchester.

Free entry.

Thu 28 March – Sun 9 June

Winchester Photographic Society is one of the largest photographic clubs in the south and its annual exhibition attracts entries from not only its own membership but also from photographers far and wide, professional and amateur. This exhibition showcases the cream of these entries. Free entry.

City Museum

LEGO® Mania Trail

Wed 1 May – Mon 30 September Guildhall, first floor entrance

The Big ‘Little’ Dish Come and see the spectacular ‘Blakeway Little’ dish, donated to the City in 1933 and now part of the Civic Silver collection.

See the life-sized LEGO® Roman banquet, made from over 75,000 LEGO® elements.

Join in the hunt to find our Roman LEGO® minifigures and be creative at our LEGO® play tables. Enter our LEGO® model competition.

Build and customize your own LEGO® minifigure – cost £2.50 a figure.

See website for details and for other LEGO® Mania Trail events across Hampshire – www.hants.gov.uk/legomaniatrail

Guildhall opening hours only.

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Events We have three sessions available: 10.30am - 11.15am, 12.00pm - 12.45pm and 1.30pm - 2.15pm £7 per person per session.

Thu 30 May Winchester Discovery Centre

Tue 28 May Winchester Discovery Centre

LEGO® Masterclass Learn from the experts!

Develop your LEGO® skills by attending a LEGO® masterclass. The session includes making your own LEGO® model to take away.

JUNE

Free LEGO® mosaic making workshop Come and take part in the making of an exciting new LEGO® artwork - a life-sized LEGO® reconstruction of the Sparsholt Roman mosaic. You will make your own unique piece of the mosaic out of LEGO® bricks which will then form part of the finished mosaic artwork.

Sat 1 June,

Sat 15 June – Sun 7 July

1pm - 5pm

City Space

Bishop’s Waltham Show

To Honour a Promise

Winchester Museums will be attending this popular show, taking artefacts and activities out to people in the district.

Admission charge to show will apply.

Come along to this exhibition and find out more about the Morn Hill Memorial Project, which aims to commemorate the two million soldiers from many countries who passed through the Morn Hill camps during the First World War. If you have a family connection with the Great War we would love to hear about it.

Call in at the exhibition and leave your details or contact: tohonourapromise@ winchester.gov.uk Free entry.

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Places are limited so book early.

Parental supervision is required at this event. Suitable for age 7+.

You can book online for these events at: www.hants.gov.uk/wdc In person at the Winchester Discovery Centre, Jewry Street, Winchester SO23 8SB or by phone: 01962 873 603 There is a £1 booking fee for credit/debit cards, postage is 50p.

Free event, all materials provided. For people of all ages. Come and join in this special event.

We have six sessions available: 10am, 11am, 12noon, 1.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm

JULY Sat 13 July City Museum

Mike O’Leary storyteller Local weaver of tales, Michael O’Leary will be telling his stories for children of all ages in the City Museum throughout the day. The stories are inspired by folktales of Hampshire – wise women, magic swords, princesses and hollow hills – with music and inspiration drawn from the artefacts in the Museum.

There will be four free sessions; at 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm.

A Winchester Festival Event.

Free admission, just turn up.

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Events

City Space

Image courtesy Edward Roberts

Edwardian Summer

This fascinating family friendly exhibition looks at the period between the end of the Victorian Age and the start of the Great War. Discover what life was like for people in the Edwardian country estates, the rural villages and historic towns like Winchester before their world changed forever.

There will be lots of things to do in the exhibition with quizzes, art activities and a country house mystery to solve! Free entry

Sat 20 July City Museum, 11am – 4.30pm

Medieval Day Discover the Magnificent Middle Ages!

Drop in to the City Museum and meet a Medieval Man-atArms, handle real medieval artefacts and make cut-out medieval characters to take away with you.

Have you found any objects in your garden, out walking or metal-detecting and wondered

Image courtesy Mrs Betty Belton

what they are? Why not bring them along and find out more about them.

Celebrate the Festival of Archaeology, 13 – 28 July www.archaeologyfestival.or.uk Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Sat 13 July – Sun 8 September

Free admission.

AUGUST Tue 13 August Winchester Discovery Centre, 10am – 4pm

Edwardian make and take Taking inspiration from the Edwardian Summer exhibition this free drop-in activity is suitable for age 8+.

All children to be accompanied by an adult.

Sat 17 August 2pm – 5pm

costume representing just a few of the many staff required to run an Edwardian Country Estate. You may bump into the cook or the gamekeeper, the butler or the housekeeper.

There will also period objects from the collections for you to handle.

Free event.

SEPTEMBER Sat 14 September – Sun 6 October City Space

Kathakali

Denmead Village Show Winchester Museums taking artefacts and activities out to people in the district.

Come along and say hello.

Tue 20 August City Space, 10am – 4pm

Meet the Edwardian Country House Staff Winchester Museums volunteers will be in City Space today in replica period

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With stunning costumes, fabrics and other artefacts this exhibition will bring alive the vibrant and colourful tradition of Kathakali dance and drama.

From its origins in Kerala in south-west India, visitors will be taken on a journey into the rich cultural heritage of the Kerala community, some of whom have left their homeland to settle in Hampshire.

Free entry.

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