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SPACE TO THINK: RURAL WELLBEING
Created by 3rd year Museum Studies Students: Katherine Barnes, Madeleine Bousfield, Jack Chandler, Jemma Jarman, and Freya Pook. Discussing and raising awareness of mental health has increased in recent years, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic. This exhibition explores the topic of mental health and the countryside in relation to art, gardening, music, literature, and farming. The exhitbion […]
Find out more »QUEER CONSTELLATIONS
Queer Constellations is an exhibition that poses the question as to whether there is queerness in rural life. It brings together artists from around the UK and Ireland, including Epha J Roe, James Aldridge, Emma Plover, Gemma Dagger, Eimear Walshe, Claye Bowler and Daniel Baker, to delight in the strangeness of rural life and to […]
Find out more »AIMA 2021 – PAST AND FUTURE AGRICULTURES
Involved in museums of farming life? Then this event is for you... This international congress brings together agricultural and rural museum and heritage professionals from around the world to explore and share their work. It is a rare opportunity for agricultural museum professionals and others interested in farming heritage to discuss engagement, research, collections practice, […]
Find out more »SUMMER ACTIVITY PACKS
This pack includes everything you need for a MERL-tastic summer! These packs are suitable for families with children aged 5+. £5 per pack. Inside the fabric bag, you will find a booklet which includes: spotter sheets for the galleries and outdoors recipes from our archive for you to have a go at colouring sheets wordsearch […]
Find out more »EDIBLE ENGLAND GALLERY TRAIL
This new trail introduces 13 objects from our collections which illustrate the theme ‘Edible England’. An illustrated booklet provides more details about the selected objects and can be used alongside or independently of the ‘Edible England’ trail sheet for children. On this trail sheet, children can have fun spotting all 13 objects and the knitted […]
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