A warm welcome to The John Moore Countryside Museum & The Merchant’s House

 

BIRDS OF PREY LIVE ANIMAL EVENT - Saturday 20th February 2010

 

 Beastly Birds of Prey and Mischievous Mammals

 

Come along on Saturday 20th February and meet:

  • Tess the Harris Hawk
  • Merlin the Eagle Owl
  • Tinker and Bell the Polecat Ferrets

Learn all about these fascinating creatures from our resident falconer.

 

What do they eat? Where do they live? What are their habits?

 

 

 

 

Merlin the Eagle Owl

10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm.

 

Admission: Adults £1.50, Seniors & Students £1.25, Children £1.00, Families £4.00

For more information please call 01684 297174 or email:

curator@johnmooremuseum.org or

education@johnmooremuseum.org

 

 

 

LIVING HISTORY WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS

 

TUDOR TIME TRAVELLER - DAILY LIFE IN THE 1580s

 

From 1st March to 12th March 2010, the Merchant's House will be hosting a series of Tudor Living History Workshops for Schools.

 

Professional costumed interpreters will be in residence in our furnished timber-framed building.

 

 Tudor Leather Worker

 Bring your pupils along to:

  • Meet a Tudor leather-worker and his wife. Find out about buying and selling in Tudor times and handle Elizabethan money.
  • Investigate the everyday life of Tudor people in the 1580s. What food did they eat? What games did they play?
  • Discover Tudor clothing and study how people kept clean without washing machines!
  • Feeling poorly? Learn about Tudor home-grown remedies and the notorious barber-surgeons.

 

The workshop day will also include a Tudor buildings workshop - How did Tudors build houses and what exactly is wattle and daub?

 

 

For more information please contact the John Moore Countryside Museum - email curator@johnmooremuseum.org or telephone 01684 297174

 

'Wire we living here?' OUTREACH WORKSHOPS

 

Do you need a fun and informative session to help teach about habitats? Then consider our new Outreach workshops, run in conjunction with local sculptor Celia Smith.

 

 

Pupils will get the chance to participate in a class-room based session, handling museum artefacts and examining the natural habitats of various animals. Interactive activities focus on the reasons for a habitat's location and construction.

 

Celia will lead a design and technology/art workshop in which pupils sculpt their own 3D animals or birds using copper and soft steel wires. Using museum artefacts as inspiration, pupils will study the animals' form and colour to enhance their knowledge of natural history.

 

For more information please contact the John Moore Countryside Museum - email curator@johnmooremuseum.org or telephone 01684 297174

 

 

Whilst you're here enjoy a piece of John Moore's writing and listen to

John Yorke reading Poaching from 'The Year of The Pigeons'