Adult
January 20, 2022
Wedding Fair
Dorset Museum is excited to announce our second Wedding Fair, working alongside a variety of local suppliers to help couples plan their forthcoming nuptials.
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January 14, 2022
Reynolds Stone: Life and Work
To coincide with the exhibition Scene through Wood: A century of Modern Wood Engraving, Humphrey Stone discusses the life and work of his father, Reynolds Stone, in this evening lecture.
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January 7, 2022
Mary Anning, the fossil woman
Join Tom Sharpe, formerly Curator of Palaeontology and Archives at the National Museum of Wales, and author of ‘The Fossil Woman: A life of Mary Anning’, to examine what we know of the life of this extraordinary woman.
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December 14, 2021
Scene through Wood – A Century of Modern Wood Engraving
An exhibition from the Ashmolean Museum marking 100 years since the founding of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920 and celebrating one of the most astonishingly skilful and richly creative forms of visual art.
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December 14, 2021
Introduction to wood engraving
This one-day workshop is perfect for beginners looking to learn a new technique. You will be taught the principles of designing for wood engraving, methods of engraving into a block of end grain wood, and how to print from your finished block.
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December 14, 2021
Playful spring printing for adults workshop
[FULLY BOOKED] Join artist Helen Garrett for a fun morning of experimental printing from clay using natural forms as inspiration.
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December 14, 2021
Staging the world of Stonehenge
FULLY BOOKED This talk explores the British Museum's major exhibition on the world of Stonehenge with the help of its key objects from across Europe, including the first loan to Britain of the Nebra sky disc and several important objects kindly loaned to the exhibition by Dorset Museum.
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December 14, 2021
British sign language deaf-led tour
Join deaf tour guide John Wilson to explore two of Dorset’s most exciting museums, Dorset Museum and Shire Hall Museum
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December 13, 2021
Quiet Revolutions
Quiet Revolutions, a display of ceramic pieces inspired by the lives of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, will run from 22 January – 27 March 2022 in the Museum’s Artists’ Dorset gallery, coinciding with February’s LGBT+ History month.
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