Summer 2023 Placements
Due to some generous funding from Heathrow Community Trust, we delighted to be able to offer summer work experience placements for young people in Richmond with up to £15 a day to cover the costs of travel and lunch!
To qualify students must be:
·Aged 16 and over, by 30 July 2023
·Residents of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames or enrolled at a London Borough of Richmond upon Thames school
·Able to attend all 5 days of the placement they have chosen.
Interested? Have a look at the role descriptions below, choose which placement(s) you are interested in, and complete an expression of interest form and send it to: info@museumofrichmond.com
If you have any questions, you can email the Museum Team at info@museumofrichmond.com or call 020 8332 1141 (Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 5pm and Saturdays, 10am to 4pm)
We have three types of placements on offer:
Learning: Family Workshops
Helping our Learning Officer with the delivery of the family workshops and related behind the scenes tasks.
Click here to download the role description
Click here to download an Expression of Interest form
Learning: Summer Schools
Working with our Learning Officer and supporting students as they complete a Bronze Arts Award as part of a summer school.
Click here to download the role description
Click here to download an Expression of Interest form
Curatorial: Collections Care
Working with the Curator helping with documenting objects in the Museum’s collection, helping to Digitise the Collection, and learn about how Museums care for their objects.
CURRENT EXHIBITION: ARTIFICIAL SILK: FROM KEW TO THE WORLD
20 June 2023 – March 2024
Visit for free during usual Museum opening hours
A special exhibition about a little-known local scientific invention with a huge global impact: the development of artificial silk.
TALK: AN EVENING WITH ZANDRA RHODES
Monday 30 October 2023, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Doors open at 7pm
Talk and Q&A: 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Book signing: 8:30pm to 9:30pm
Please note, this event is being held at: Duke Street Church, Duke Street, Richmond, TW9 1DH
To attend the talk in person: £10
To view the talk online: £8
CLICK HERE TO BOOK
Join us for an evening with Dame Zandra Rhodes, a notorious figurehead of the UK fashion industry for five decades.
In this talk, Zandra will explore how she has been painting the world with her unapologetically colourful creations since the 1960s, past and future collaborations, and The Zandra Rhodes Foundation.