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Fun games, downloads and interactive learning with Eco Dude, Mansfield Museum's resident eco-warrior! |
Art galleries and termporary exhibitions with local and national artefacts, art, sculpture and photography |
Practical education programmes for young and old, including school visits relating to the national curriculum |
Happy New Year to all friends of Mansfield Museum!
2009 was a successful year, signed off by our most popular Christmas Market yet, with nearly 2,000 visitors browsing over thirty stalls during the three-day event. Booking has opened for next December!
New Year is a time for looking forwards and we have lots of interesting things for you to savour during the coming weeks.
Currently on show is an exhibition of life drawing by local artists. These studies of nudes are in a wide range of styles and media.
This will soon be joined by the work of two of Nottingham’s most prominent contemporary artists. Jonathan Annable and Emma Gladwin have been the subject of over two hundred exhibitions worldwide. Here is a chance to catch them on their home turf.
February sees Guiding Memories, our celebration of the Girl Guide movement’s centenary. As well as an exhibition of local and national memorabilia concerned with this inspiring organisation, we will also be turning the galleries into a temporary campground as two dozen Guides sleep over beneath the antlers and buffalo horns.
Much further ahead, our annual Summer Exhibition this year is about childhood. As usual, we are looking to involve the local community in mounting this so if you have any toys, games, books, comics which you would like to see on display, please get in touch.
Other treats lined up include working with the Chad to display the results of their Why I Like Mansfield community project and, at year’s end, partnering our neighbours to celebrate the Palace Theatre’s first century.
If you haven’t already done so, once you’ve explored this site, why not take a look at the new community website on www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk
It is a living history of Mansfield and Area and is a means to reach out to a wider public and share a wealth of information. The site gives people the opportunity to share their information, memories, photos and knowledge about Mansfield and the local communities, both as they are today, and how they were in the past. We hope you enjoy it.
And don’t forget that market booking!
