Stop the press! Or perhaps more appropriately… start the press! We are currently undertaking a project to make prints public; cataloguing, researching and digitising approximately 1,500 prints held in our collections. This will mean you will be able to use our online ‘collections search’ function to find these items, see (and order) high resolution images ... [Read more...]

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Harriet Crombie and Jordan Greco are currently studying for BA in Primary Education at Oxford Brookes University. As part of their second year placement, as well as working in a school, they had the opportunity to work alongside an education officer in a museum in Oxford; they decided to visit the Museum of the History ... [Read more...]

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I was very excited when I heard that we had the opportunity to acquire some new objects from the Balfour Museum at the British Red Cross Offices in Winchester, which are to be closed down and the Museum with them. I had been looking for ways to build a Primary school session around our penicillin ... [Read more...]

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When I first put together the proposal for ‘The Renaissance Globe Project’, it seemed altogether too ambitious for such a small team with limited resources to deliver. But the temptation to have a go was too great and, with the prospect of partnership and the use of an expanding pool of community volunteers looking for ... [Read more...]

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