Museum of Richmond
Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey TW9 1TP
Tel: 020 8332 1141 Email: museumofrichmond@btconnect.com


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Programme of Films, Talks and Events

January - April 2012
 

 
Leigh’s Panorama and the Georgians

Friday, 20th January

14.00
Exhibition Talk:
The Great Georgian Appetite   

A talk by Norman Radley on food in Georgian times.
£2 donation welcomed, ticket required
 
 

Saturday, 21st January

14.00
Exhibition Talk:
George IV in Brighton and Richmond
An illustrated talk by Alan Field.
£2 donation welcomed, ticket required

 
  
Wednesday, 25th January

18.00
Film Season:
Three Men in a Boat
(1956; certificate U); (84 mins approx)
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required

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Celebrations and Commemorations
 

Saturday, 28th January

11.00 – 15.00
Bounteous Bunting Workshop
Join us in making some bunting to be displayed in the Museum’s exhibition celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee.
Free, no booking necessary. Call 020 8332 1141 for more information 

 
Monday, 13th February

11.00 – 12.00
The Museum of Richmond and Libraries Poetry Reading Group present a morning of poetry inspired by:
Valentine’s Day
With Fiona Pearson. Feel free to bring along your own poem.
Free, no ticket required

 
Tuesday, 14th – Friday 17th February

10.00 – 12.00
Half Term Family Workshops
A week of art and craft activities inspired by the current exhibition.
Call 020 8332 1141 for more information or visit www.museumofrichmond.com
 

 
Thursday, 23rd February

14.00
Special Talk:
Three Years in the Somme Trenches in WW1
An illustrated talk by Nigel Hepper whose father kept a diary that has now been published as Captain Hepper's Great War Diary.
£2 donation welcomed, ticket required

 
Wednesday, 29th February

18.00
Aging Monarchs Film Season:
The Queen
(2006; certificate 12A); (103 mins approx)
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
Starring Helen Mirren and James Cromwell.

Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required. 

  
Thursday, 1st March

14.00
Exhibition Talk:
Happy and Glorious
A talk by exhibition curator, Sue Barber.
£2 donation welcomed, ticket required


    
Monday, 5th March

11.00 – 12.00
The Museum of Richmond and Libraries Poetry Reading Group present a morning of poetry inspired by:
Jubilee Royals
With Fiona Pearson. Feel free to bring along your own poem.
Free, no ticket required

   
Tuesday, 13th March

11.00 – 12.30
(meeting at the Museum for tea and coffee at 10.30)
Royal Richmond Walk
Led by Jo Coombes of the Richmond Heritage Guides.
£3 Supporters/ £4 non-Supporters including refreshments Ticket required
 

  
Saturday, 24th March

14.00
Exhibition Talk:
Painting the Queen
A talk with portrait painter, Isobel Peachey, who in 2010 produced an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. A fascinating insight into the artist’s practise and the commissioning process.

£2 donation welcomed, ticket required

 

Wednesday, 28th March

18.00 (with a free introduction by Dr Sian Barber, Postdoctoral Researcher in Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, at 17.45)Aging Monarchs Film Season:
Mrs Brown
(1997; certificate PG); (105 mins approx)
While on an extended stay at Balmoral Castle and still in mourning over the death of her beloved Prince Albert, Queen Victoria meets Mr. Brown, a member of her household staff who thinks the time has come for her to start living a normal life. He quickly gains the Queen's favour and friendship and his authority and status in the household are soon on the rise.

Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required.
 

Tuesday, 10th April

11.00 – 12.00 
The Museum of Richmond and Libraries Poetry Reading Group present a morning of poetry inspired by:
Dickens
With Fiona Pearson. Feel free to bring along your own poem.
Free, no ticket required
 

Tuesday, 3rd – Thursday, 5th
and
Wednesday, 11th – Saturday, 14th April

10.00 – 12.00
Easter Family Workshops

Two weeks of art and craft activities inspired by the current exhibition.
Call 020 8332 1141 for more information or visit www.museumofrichmond.com 

 

Friday, 13th April

14.00
Dickensian Richmond Family Workshop
An object handling and art and craft activity at Richmond Lending Library.
Call 020 8332 1141 for more information.
 

Wednesday, 25th April

18.00 (with a free introduction by Dr Sian Barber, Postdoctoral Researcher in Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, at 17.45)
Aging Monarchs Film Season:
Sixty Glorious Years
(1938; certificate unrated); (95 mins approx)
A film to storm your heart and sweep your senses . . . Drama behind palace doors . . . Drama on the battlefield . . . A world of conflict and emotion, brought to you in a picture that for sheer beauty and magnitude stands alone. With Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and C. Aubrey Smith.
Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required
 

Thursday, 26th April

14.00
Exhibition Talk:
Dickens: Life and Times
An illustrated talk with Phillippa Heath commemorating the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth.
£2 donation welcomed, ticket required.

Booking Information for Events 
 

Event tickets are available by post or collection from the Museum of Richmond,
Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond, TW9 1TP.  Tel: 020 8332 1141.

Please complete the attached booking form and return it to the Museum with a stamped
addressed envelope.

For more information on any of the events, please call Phillippa Heath on
020 8332 1141.
See here for the booking form.

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