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Email all your art to [email protected]. We look forward to seeing it!
BE PART OF HISTORY - MAKE IT WITH PENRITH AND EDEN MUSEUM!
In this project we want you to look at photos and short films of all sorts of things currently locked up in Penrith and Eden Museum that were used by people like us in the past. There will be one artefact each week with a challenge for you to do. Have a look at the artefact sheet attached. (There are 10 in all)
The museum is celebrating that their building, Robinson’s School, is 350 years old this year. The curators have selected 10 special items from the collection to share with you.
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Be an artist, architect, writer or poet and draw, paint or create something that represents your experience of living, learning and playing under lockdown.
You are making an artefact for future people to see or read, just like the people who made the objects and pictures you are seeing from the museum each week.
Send us a photo of your artwork by 14th August 2020 and we will upload it to our virtual exhibition online (show your work here to all your friends) and once the museum opens again it will appear in a digital exhibition in one of the galleries to share with all our visitors.
The little things we do every day and the things we use will be fascinating to people in the future. Here is where you come in!
THE MUSEUM CATALOGUE SAYS:
The curator says:
ARTEFACT
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Lamp Terracotta lamp in two parts, in the form of a scaled fish with the mouth as a spout for a wick? Handle or hanging attachment missing. Reddish-brown and unglazed, blackened in places. PEQPM:1984.90
Roman Oil Lamp
People living in Roman .mes would have used a lamp like this one to light their homes, temples and public buildings. they would also use the lamp whilst saying a prayer to the Goddess of the home, Vesta.
Romans would make the lamps from an orange clay called terraco?a which was pressed into a fish shaped mould.On this lamp, the mouth is in the shape of a spout and this is where the wick would go. It is missing its handle.
To light the lamp, they poured olive oil into the filling hole. A wick made from linen was placed into a wick-hole .The wick would soak up the oil and then be lit to give a flame. It was easier and safer to use these lamps than using torches or candles. They also provided a be?er and brighter light than a candle.
We think this lamp was found at Brougham Roman Fort, near Penrith, not far from the Frenchfields sports pitches.
WELCOME!
Each week there will be a different creative challenge as you find out about special objects from your local museum. Make some art and send a photo to Rebecca, one of the curators, who will choose some of your photos each week and share them worldwide on our museum blog! What is it?
The artist says:Can you mix a colour like terracotta using layers of coloured pencil, wax crayons, pastels or paint? Now use this to create some fantastic fish inspired by the Roman lamp from around 2000 years ago. Send a photo of your fish masterpiece by email to [email protected] and then check the blog to see if it has been chosen in the curator’s blog. You can find this on Facebook or http://www.penrithmuseumblog.com/
MORE ABOUT OIL LAMPS
MORE ABOUT THE ROMANS IN CUMBRIA
ARTEFACT
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If you want to find out more about Roman oil lamps have a look at this website http://www.sciencebuzz.org/museum/object/2003_05_roman_oil_lamp
If you want to have a go at making your own lamp from clay see how a Hounslow Primary School did it after they visited the British Museum. Do get your parent’s permission and have an adult with you if you want to light it! http://suffahschool.hounslow.sch.uk/ancient-roman-oil-lamps-making/
The Lake District Na/onal Park have a couple of useful references. h"ps://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/learning/archaeologyhistory/archaeology8meline/archaeologyromansandvikings
And this one has activities to print out and games to play:
WELCOME!
Each week there will be a different creative challenge as you find out about special objects from your local museum. Make some art and send a photo to Rebecca, one of the curators, who will choose some of your photos each week and share them worldwide on our museum blog! Want to know more?
See how Artists have been inspired by fish. Check out some of this art work: Henri Matisse ‘The Goldfish’ https://www.henrimatisse.org/goldfish.jsp
Look at the comic strip style of Roy Lichtenstein in his ‘Still Life with Goldfish’ at http://lichtensteinpaintings.com/still-life-with-goldfish/
Pablo Picasso made art using many media. Have a look at this ceramic piece he made in 1954. It is a small jug made of very similar coloured clay to our Roman Oil Lamp. https://www.masterworksfineart.com/artists/pablo-picasso/ceramic/fish-subject-sujet-poisson-1954/id/W-5715
https://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/learning/forteachers/archaeologyeducationromans
Don’t forget your local library and museum once they are open again.Hadrian’s Wall is a World Heritage Site right here in Cumbria - go and visit it once we are able to!
