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Foyer Display: Boats Births Brass and Bun - A Glimpse into Stroud's Black History
Oct
1
to Dec 15

Foyer Display: Boats Births Brass and Bun - A Glimpse into Stroud's Black History

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The Women’s Art Activation System (The WAAS) supported by Stroud Against Racism are delighted to present an intergenerational display about the Windrush families and their descendants, a unique aspect of Stroud’s history for you to discover and enjoy. Key contributor Dee Guthrie shares original artworks and creative pieces by herself, her mother and her son.

This display is supported by Museum in the Park and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. It grew out of the Baby Makers: Making History project created by The WAAS and includes birth histories as well as the wider story.

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Display: Baby Makers - Making History
Oct
8
to Dec 15

Display: Baby Makers - Making History

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Over the last 2 years the Museum in the Park have been working in partnership with The Women’s Art Activation System – artists Sarah Dixon and Sharon Bennett - on the Baby Makers: Making History project. We set out to establish reproductive and birth histories in the Museum collection as a little-recorded but important part of our collective heritage. 

This display brings together museum objects that inspired the project and new stories collected as a part of it. These include artworks created at The WAAS workshops, newly acquired objects relating to Stroud Maternity Unit and creative pieces exploring trauma and miscarriage.

In collaboration with Stroud Against Racism and Stroud Local History Society, funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund.

Collectors Room, FREE but donations welcome.

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Display: Souling and Scaring - A Halloween Guessing Game
Oct
8
to Nov 10

Display: Souling and Scaring - A Halloween Guessing Game

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For centuries it has been customary to play games at Halloween, from apple-bobbing to divination rituals. In the seasonal spirit of Hallowmas, we invite you to examine our selection of spooky and mysterious objects. What are they and how might they be connected to Halloween? Come and see the display to find out the answers.

Staircase Hall

FREE, donations welcome

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Display: The Betsy Foster Paintings
Jul
9
to Oct 6

Display: The Betsy Foster Paintings

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Come and see a snapshot of Stroud in the late 19th century, as captured in paint by female artists.

The display features a series of watercolours painted by either 1 or 2 women called Betsy Foster, in the period around 1850 to 1894. Betsy Foster (nee Womack) and her daughter Elizabeth Margaret (Betsy), enjoyed painting places where their family lived and worked around Stroud.

The artworks travelled all the way to Canada when the family emigrated in 1894 and have only recently returned to where they were painted.

In the Collectors Room, free but donations welcome.

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Display: Fossil Fish From The Jurassic Seas
Jun
11
to Sep 29

Display: Fossil Fish From The Jurassic Seas

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These recently discovered fossils from King’s Stanley are on public display for the first time. Come and see a small selection of the stunningly well-preserved fish, complete with scales, fins and eyeballs. You won’t believe they are over 180 million years old.

These fossilised fish and other marine creatures once swam in the tropical waters of the early Jurassic period, when the Mendip hills were islands and dinosaurs roamed the land. Frozen in time (together with their droppings and stomach contents), they now offer a fascinating glimpse into a long-gone ecosystem.

Don’t miss the chance to see the eye-popping pachycormus fish fossil, which is kindly on loan from Sally and Neville Hollingworth.

Foyer display

FREE, donations welcome

Conserved by Nigel Larkin with Sally and Neville Hollingworth with the aid of a grant from the AIM Pilgrim Trust Conservation Scheme and the assistance of The Curry Fund of the Geologists’ Association www.geologistsassociation.org.uk

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Foyer Display - Sustainable Stories from the Past
May
18
to Jun 9

Foyer Display - Sustainable Stories from the Past

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If we could speak to the people alive before us, what advice might they give us about living more sustainable lives?

Explore the sustainable stories that these objects tell. What can they tell us about sustainable living in the past and the present?

With Stroud District Council’s target for a carbon neutral district by 2030, the sustainable stories these objects can tell are more relevant than ever.

Free foyer display, on show now!

To create this display we’ve selected just some of the handling objects from our Sustainable Stories from the Past Remote Learning Package, which is available for schools and other educational groups to borrow. Part of our schools programme, the Remote Learning Packages are designed to support the curriculum and offer opportunities for children to handle, investigate and learn using objects from our handling collection, and are supported by a pack for teachers and a class video call with our museum experts designed to support and enhance classroom-based learning.

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Display: Stroud Valleys Woodcraft Folk
Apr
9
to Jun 30

Display: Stroud Valleys Woodcraft Folk

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Stroud Valleys Woodcraft Folk was set up by a group of families in 1996 to provide an alternative youth group for their children. Part of a national organisation which turns 100 next year, Woodcraft Folk was founded with the aim of educating and empowering young people to actively participate in society.

This display by the young people of Stroud Woodcraft illuminates the history of the group, its activities and its ethos: from story and song to pacifism and social justice by way of hikes, camping and gallons of hot chocolate!  

The Space community gallery

FREE, donations welcome

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Display: Pangolin Editions and the ‘Lost Wax’ Process
Feb
13
to May 12

Display: Pangolin Editions and the ‘Lost Wax’ Process

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Pangolin Editions is one of Britain's leading sculpture foundries. It is one of very few foundries still practising the traditional skills of ‘lost wax block investment casting’, an ancient art over 4,500 years old. On show are objects representing each stage in the process of casting the sculpture ‘Helmeted Guinea Fowl’ by Jonathan Kingdon.

Foyer display

FREE, though donations welcome

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The Space presents...
Jan
27
to Mar 31

The Space presents...

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…inside the living quarters of Painswick Old Post Office.

In 2016 the Museum was lent a model of the Painswick Post Office. Last year we discovered the model had another part - the living accommodation - and acquired it for the collection.

While the model itself requires some consolidation, this display represents the contents of the living quarters.

The model was made and furnished by Peter Lee at a scale of 1/12th of the original building, as it appeared in about 1990.

Display located by the lift lobby on the first floor of the Museum. 

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Display: Snake Pottery
Jan
27
to Mar 3

Display: Snake Pottery

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EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND!

In 1966 Peter Currell Brown established Snake Pottery in Dursley. This display in the Collectors Room features 20 pieces made by the artist, including a spectacular wassail bowl. The ceramics are inspired by local traditions and folklore including mummering and wassailing.

Free to visit, donations welcome.

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Display: Mary Bennett
Oct
3
to Dec 3

Display: Mary Bennett

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Mary Bennett was an artist who lived and worked in Stroud her whole life. She demonstrated talent in various artistic fields, from painting and embroidery to calligraphy and printmaking. Her embroidery was accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy. While her neighbours remember her for her kindness to children at Christmas.

Display in the foyer, free although donations welcome.

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The Road Less Travelled
Mar
28
to Jul 2

The Road Less Travelled

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From buses to bicycles this display explores how local people used to commute to work in the first half of the 20th century. The stories of local travels revealed by these images and objects, might encourage us to reflect on our own commute.

Visitors will be given the opportunity to record how they travelled to the Museum and if they wish, to calculate the carbon footprint of their commute.

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All That Glitters
Jan
24
to Mar 26

All That Glitters

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Shiny things galore! Visit the museum’s foyer for this small display of objects acquired through the Treasure Act (1996) and the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Also, help us to fundraise to buy the Painswick Mourning Ring - the latest find to be offered to the museum under this scheme. Find out more about the ring, and donate, here.

Image shows coins from the Ashbrook Hoard, found in 1935.

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