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Exhibitions and Events 2020Herefordshire Museum Service

THE PHOTOSFeb-April 2020

A multi-venue exhibition of photographs from the Derek Evans Studio archive 1940s-70s

www.herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk

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Talks and tours 8

Family events 14

School activities 17

Venues 21

WHAT’S ON

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Herefordshire Museum Service Exhibitions and Events 2020

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Hereford Museum & Art Gallery

Exhibitions

A Long Time Coming By Chris January 7 - February 1 Hereford Museum & Art Gallery FREE Tuesday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-12.30pm

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Four years ago Chris rekindled his interest in art, years after graduating from the Royal College of Art with a Masters degree. As a form of therapy he has worked daily, focusing on a subject until the inspiration is exhausted, then moving on to another genre. Chris’s aspiration is ‘… to appeal to all ages and creeds and hopefully demystify the language of art to the lay person’. Chris’s artworks are for sale with all proceeds going to Cancer Research UK.

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Exhibitions

Herefordshire Life Through a Lens: The PhotosBy Catcher MediaFebruary 8 - March 21 Hereford Museum & Art Gallery FREE

Tuesday - Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-12.30pm

An exhibition of photographic gems from the Derek

Evans archive collection. Focusing on priceless scenes

from Herefordshire Life from 1940s-1970s, the

exhibition gives people a chance to “get up close and

personal” with Derek’s actual exhibition prints created

in his studio a few doors down on the third floor of

No.43, Broad Street, many of which haven’t been seen

for over 50 years, and which still look stunning.

Catcher Media will be exhibiting in five venues

across Hereford: Hereford Museum & Art Gallery,

the Courtyard, Hereford Cathedral, HARC &

Hereford College of Arts from Feb-April 2020. The

photographic trail continues around the county in

Ledbury, Ross, Kington & Leominster libraries. For

linked events see Talks & Tours and Family Events

pages and check out the website:

www.herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk

April 4 - June 20 Hereford Museum & Art Gallery Suggested donations of £2.50 Tuesday - Saturday 10am-4pm

Can you imagine mammoths roaming Herefordshire? Or a landscape on the edge of a massive ice sheet? How long did the Ice Age last and did people live here? Come and find the answers, discover the stories about King Arthur’s Cave and meet a life size mammoth model. Plenty for the family to explore including a child friendly science lab, making a cave painting, dressing up as wolf or reindeer, and helping to create a baby woolly mammoth!

An exhibition developed by Worcester Museums has been recreated here with a Herefordshire focus. It features the bones of extinct animals, animals that survived the Pleistocene Ice Age, and artefacts made by early humans. It outlines the geology and landscape of Ice Age Herefordshire and beyond, including investigating the remains of Herefordshire’s Ice Age Ponds. Artwork created by students at Hereford College of Arts brings things up to date with their exploration of the meaning and effect of modern day Climate Change.

A city trail and details about a range of activities and events can be found on our Family Events page, website and Facebook pages.

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An exhibition not to be missed!

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Discworld® & Beyond By Paul KidbyJuly 4 - August 22 Hereford Museum & Art Gallery FREE

Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-12.30pm

Homage to Local HeroesBy Susan EdwardsSeptember 5 - October 31 Hereford Museum & Art Gallery FREE

Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-12.30pm Part of hArt - Sep 5 - 13

Discworld® & Beyond is a touring exhibition featuring the book jacket art and illustrations of Paul Kidby, one of the UK’s leading fantasy illustrators who is best known as the ‘artist of choice’ of best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld series.

For related events, see our Family Events page, website and Facebook pages.

Three famous artists, Dame Laura Knight, David Cox and John Ward, lived and worked in Herefordshire. Featuring examples of their work selected from the Museum’s collections, Susan Edwards will be exhibiting her own work of local Herefordshire landscapes, portraits, interiors and figure studies inspired by the subjects and the techniques of her ‘local heroes’. Many of Susan’s artworks will be for sale.

During h.Art 5 -13 September, you can meet the artist in the gallery for a free tour of the exhibition.

For linked events see Talks & Tours and Family Events pages and check out the website and Facebook pages.

Part of hArt - Sep 5 -13

Midcentury Modern: the Art of the FiftiesCurated by Richard Turkington, FRSANovember 14 - December 12 Hereford Museum & Art Gallery FREE

Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm,

Saturday 10am-12.30pm

The 1950s are associated with a grey austerity in the difficult adjustment to peace after the Second World War. Artists played their part in a changing world, placing more emphasis on everyday domestic and urban scenes; in the continued development of abstraction and in the greater use of printmaking to extend ‘art for all’. This exhibition captures the range of work produced in the 1950s, encouraging us to look again at a neglected period in the production of art. It will include works by established artists such as John Piper and Henry Moore but also the less well-known, especially women artists. Most of the artworks will be available to purchase.

Richard Turkington is the Director of Fifties Art and shows regularly through exhibitions and art fairs, his collection is can be viewed at www.fiftiesart.com

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Talks and tours

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Behind the Scenes tours of the Museum’s collectionsEvery first Wednesday each month Museum Resource & Learning Centre £4 per person No booking required

Tours 11am-12pm

Talks and tours

Explore the exciting Treasure house of historic artefacts. The tour will be lead by one of the Museum’s specialist curators. This will be an opportunity to see not only Behind the Scenes of the museum but also some of the many artefacts stored (there are over 100,000) with amazing stories to tell. We also offer an identification service.

Group bookings are available for other days and times. Please contact 01432 383383 herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk www.herefordshire.gov.uk/museums

Dorstone Hill: A decade of discovery, with Tim HoverdThursday 27 February - 10am-12pm Spring Workshop at the Museum Resource & Learning Centre £12.00 Booking required

Over the past decade our understanding of the Neolithic and early Bronze Age in Herefordshire has been transformed due to the excavations, recording and survey work undertaken on a number of sites on Dorstone Hill. This lecture will describe the significance of these sites and will set them into an ancient landscape of trade and ritual. Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Bronze Age and Neolithic Finds from Dorstone and other sites will be available for viewing.

Spring workshops are organised by Hereford Culture Club. For information and a booking form please contact Chris Lansberry on 01432 860733 or herefordcultureclub@gmail.com

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Talks and tours

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Derek Evans’s pre-digital world of photo-journalism, with Keith James Thursday 5 March 10am-12pm

Spring Workshop at the Museum Resource & Learning Centre

£12.00 Booking required

Talks and tours

‘If a Hereford express train couldn’t reach a Fleet Street deadline, the “wire-men” were called in. These were the hard men of The Street who had heard it all, seen it all and you wouldn’t risk dragging them a hundred and forty miles to Hereford with a dead-donkey of a story.’

Hereford photographer Derek Evans had his studio on BroadStreet. He was a photographer with an instinct for journalism - finding a story, covering it with “stills” or film and selling it. With first-hand knowledge of both the fast paced studio and the man, Keith James is well equipped to shed light on Evans’ amazing archive of local imagery and his photo-journalistic legacy. A selection of the studio photographic equipment will be made accessible for study. This workshop coincides with the exhibitions ‘Herefordshire Life through a Lens: The Photos’ at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, the Courtyard, Hereford Cathedral, HARC & Hereford College of Arts Feb 8th - March 21st

Spring workshops are organised by Hereford Culture Club. For information and a booking form please contact Chris Lansberry on 01432 860733 or herefordcultureclub@gmail.com

Wall paintings in 17th century English houses, with Stephen Rickerby and Lisa ShekedeFriday 13 March - 10am-12pm Spring Workshop at the Museum Resource & Learning Centre £12.00 Booking required

The Black and White House Museum in Hereford, displays two wall paintings that were rescued from a nearby property in Widemarsh Street in 1947. Dating to c.1600, they illustrate scenes from the Biblical story of Joseph and Pharaoh. In late 2018 the paintings were conserved and cleaned.

Technical findings from the conservation programme will be presented to show that extremely rich paint materials were originally used. The paintings will also be placed in their wider context, alongside other examples that have survived in houses throughout the country. There will be an opportunity to view some of the materials and tools that were used in the treatment of the paintings, and to look at the types of paint materials that the original artist would have used.

Spring workshops are organised by Hereford Culture Club. For information and a booking form please contact Chris Lansberry on 01432 860733 or herefordcultureclub@gmail.com

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Talks and tours

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Ice Age HerefordshireThursday 14 May - 10.30am-12pm Talk at the Museum Resource & Learning Centre £5.00

The Archaeology of Hereford City: Guided walkWednesday 15 July - 10am-1pm £5.00 Booking required

Talks and tours

A talk linked to the exhibition at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery on the evidence, effects and legacy of the Pleistocene Ice Age in Herefordshire. The talk will cover

local geology and landscape, and the animal, plant and human responses to the changing and cooler climate.

This event is sponsored by Herefordshire Museum Service Support Group. No Booking required, pay on the day. For further information call: 01432 383383 or email herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk

As part of the National Celebration of Archaeology join us on a fascinating archaeological guided walk around the City of Hereford with archaeologist Tim Hoverd. The walk will be followed by refreshments in the Museum Resource & Learning Centre.

Meet at the Cathedral West end at 10am. Walk followed by refreshments

at the MRLC on Friars Street. To book a place call: 01432 383383 or email herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk

Heritage Open Days: Free entrance Museum Resource & Learning Centre

Thursday 17 September - 10am-11.30am and 12pm-1.30pm

Lunchtime Art Lectures with Susan Edwards

Wednesday 30 September 12.45pm-1.30pm Woolhope Room, Hereford Museum & Art Gallery Free

Wednesday 23 September 12.45pm-1.30pmWoolhope Room, Hereford Museum & Art Gallery Free

Wednesday 16 September 12.45pm-1.30pm Woolhope Room, Hereford Museum & Art Gallery Free

Black & White House Museum

Saturday 19 September - 10am-4pm

Tours of the Museum Resource & Learning Centre in Hereford, with an introduction to the David Garrick collections. No booking required. Free

Free entrance for all and ‘a peek in the attic’ at the Black & White House Museum, in High town Hereford.

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Talks and tours

David Cox

John Ward

Dame Laura Knight

February and March

April, May and June

Family events

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Linked to the ‘Herefordshire Life Through a Lens: The Photos’ exhibition Feb 8th - March 21st there will be a series of events at various venues including :

To accompany the ‘Ice Age Herefordshire’ exhibition there will be a range of family hands-on activities and special events

Saturdays from April 4th - June 20thFREE Exploring the last Ice Age for the whole family with ‘Herefordshire’s Ice Age Ponds team’ at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

Wednesday April 8 - 11am-3pmFREE family drop in activity including Cave Art Hand Printing at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

Wednesday April 15 - 11am-3pmFREE family drop in activity including Pebble Painting Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

Wednesday May 27 - 11am-3pm FREE family drop in activity: create your own Cave Painting at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

Family events

In the exhibition at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery a chance to photograph yourself dressed in 50’s, 60’s and 70’s clothes. For details, dates and timings of events check out the website: www.herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk

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July and AugustFriday 24 July - Saturday 25 July‘Summer witches and wizards’, family activity at Black & White House Museum.

During the ‘Discworld & Beyond’ exhibition of Paul Kidby’s illustrations and artwork there will be fantasy art and reading events in Hereford Museum, Art Gallery and Library

Wednesday 29 July - 11am-3pm FREE drop in family activity: ‘illustrate your favourite story’ at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

Wednesday 5 August - 11am-3pm FREE drop in family activity: ‘discovering Discworld’ at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

Wednesday 12 August - 11am-3pm FREE drop in family activity: ‘fantastical art’ at Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

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September

October

Heritage Open Days: Free entrance at Black & White House Museum

As part of BIG DRAW, artist Susan Edwards will be running FREE drop-in Landscape Painting family workshops in the half term holidays in Hereford Museum & Art Gallery

Saturday 19 September 10am-4pmA peek in the attic! FREE entrance for all at the Black & White House Museum.

Tuesday 27 October - 10am-12pmFREE drop in Landscape Painting family activity in Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

Thursday 29 October - 10am-12pmFREE drop in Landscape Painting family activity in Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

Saturday 31 October - 10am-12pmFREE drop in Landscape Painting family activity in Hereford Museum & Art Gallery.

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School activities

School activities

To book a school visit call the Museum team on 01432 383383 herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk

Keeping House workshop KS1 Black & White House Museum

Mondays 10.30am-12pm or 1pm-2.30pm £130

Ice Age Herefordshire exhibition

Toys workshop KS1 In school or at Museum Resource & Learning Centre

10.30am-12pm or 1pm-2.30pm £130

Explore what houses and homes were like in the 1600s. Meet Joan the chief maid and assist her with the chores. Help lay the table for dinner, make the beds and swaddle babies. Listen to the story of Sir James Scudamore, a gallant knight from Herefordshire, who is part of our history. The Great Fire of London had got everyone talking. Could it happen in Hereford? Find out how easy it was for a fire to start and how you could prevent it.

Toys’ is one of Hereford Museum’s most popular and long- running workshops. Your whole class will be able to explore and play with our carefully selected collection of old toys, these include a sewing machine, a crane, a hoopla game and pecking chickens. In small groups the children will be able to compare and contrast old and new versions of the same toy, extend and practise their descriptive vocabulary, learn about replica toys and discuss the idea that in the past toys used to be made specifically for boys or girls.

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Stone Age to Iron Age workshop KS2 Museum Resource & Learning Centre

Full day - 10.30am-2.30pm £200

Half day - 10.30am-12pm or 1pm-2.30pm £130

Digging up the Romans KS2 Museum Resource & Learning Centre

10.30pm-12pm or 1pm-2.30pm £130

Imagine you lived thousands of years ago? What would you need to survive? How would you stay warm? Where would you find food? What clothes would you wear? How would you defend yourself against wild animals? Children experience life in prehistory, use reasoning to select objects for their survival and practise some every day skills.

Children will have the opportunity to see and handle real artefacts from prehistory, meet the experts and go ‘behind the scenes’.

How do we know about the Romans in Herefordshire? Your pupils will become archaeologists evaluating evidence such as aerial photos and crop marks, real and replica artefacts and other evidence to find out about our Roman past. Pupils have an opportunity to use a Roman mortaria and pestle to grind herbs and decipher a message on a wax writing tablet.

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Tudors and Stuarts at Home in Hereford KS2 Black & White House Museum

Mondays 10.30am-12pm or 1pm-2.30pm £130

Experience home life in Tudor and Stuart times. Meet Alice the chief maid and help her with household chores. Explore the colourful parlour, lay the table for dinner and learn some manners! Dress up in Tudor and Stuart clothes. Tip toe up the creaky staircase to help make the beds and see how family life was different from today. Find out what it was like when Hereford was under siege and the Civil War was turning people’s lives upside down. Join Alice for the morning and get your hands on history!

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Britain in the 20th century KS2Museum Resource & Learning Centre

Full day - 10.30am-2.30pm £200

This workshop explores changes in technology, popular culture, leisure and lifestyle in the 20th century. Children listen to music from the century and try and work out which decade it comes from. They then dress in a costume from one of the

decades and ‘strut their funky stuff’ down a catwalk to the music of their decade. This workshop is packed with original artefacts and costume.

To book a school workshop or for further information call 01432 260694 (Black & White House) or 01432 383383 (Museum Resource & Learning Centre and in school workshops) or email herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk To find out more about museum learning resources go to: www.herefordshire.gov.uk/mrlc

Evacuees workshop KS2 Museum Resource & Learning Centre

10.30am-12pm or 1pm-2.30pm £130

Children step back into wartime Herefordshire and take on the role of an evacuee arriving from Birmingham on the train. They find out what it was really like to be an evacuee and help out with the chores. Children wash and iron clothes, sort out rationed from unrationed food and ‘make do’ with toys they make themselves.

VenuesHereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad Street, Hereford HR4 9AU

Tel: 01432 260692/383383 herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk www.herefordshire.gov.uk/museums

Normal opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-12.30pm FREE except for special exhibitions

Toilets, wheelchair access via lift, tactile images and braille guides.

Hereford Museum is full of interesting local history with hands-on elements for all the family including a children’s Victorian kitchen and puppet theatre. Some of the most popular displays are a live bee hive, a two metre long sturgeon fish, and fascinating archaeology & fossils.

The Art Gallery hosts regularly changing exhibitions of contemporary and historic art and objects. The Brian Hatton Gallery displays art works by local artist Brian Hatton, killed in the First World War.

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Delve into history and then visit our special shop which is stocked with unique gifts which have been inspired by the Museum’s collections and the House.

Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 11.30-2.30 Entrance charge £3.00 adults, £2.00 children, £9.50 Family Open all year. Wheelchair access ground floor only.

A magnificent Jacobean half-timbered building in the heart of Hereford City, it was built in 1621 and was home to butchers, saddlers and bankers. Explore the rooms which give a glimpse into daily life during the 17th Century, including fashion, dining and bedrooms. Original wall paintings and furniture are displayed, along with reproduction pieces so that you can experience living in about 1650. Learn about the City of Hereford during the Civil War. Hands on activities for children and families.

Black & White House Museum, High Town, Hereford HR1 2AA

Tel: 01432 260694 herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk www.herefordshire.gov.uk/museums

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Museum Resource & Learning Centre,

58 Friars Street, Hereford HR4 0AS

Tel: 01432 383383 herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk www.herefordshire.gov.uk/museums

Opening hours: Monday - Thursday 9am-4pm Bookings only.

Nearby car parks available, disabled parking on site Wheel chair access, toilets, baby changing facilities.

The Museum Resource & Learning Centre is home to Herefordshire’s superb museum collections of Archaeology, Art, Costumes, Textiles, Decorative Arts, Natural Sciences, Local & Cultural History, Agriculture, Photographs, Arms and Numismatics.

These can be visited through tours, group visits, individual study, schools sessions, adult education, workshops and events. Please contact us to make a booking

Room hire is also available.

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