This sunday (18th July) is the museum's annual family day. It is a fun packed day with many activities including singing and dancing with the Madding Crowd who dress in Regancy costume and have a limitless knowledge of period music. It really brings the house alive and creates such a fantastic atmosphere.
There will be lots of activities to occupy children (and adults!) including onion skin dyeing, lavender water making, peg doll making and the launch of our brand new handling sessions. These sessions allow people to pick up and touch real 200 year old objects from the museum's handling collection. An experienced guide will help you explore what these objects tell us about the time of Jane Austen.
In the evening there will be a harpischord concert, which is a very unique and atmosphereic event performed by Dr Anthony Noble. Tickets are still available adults - £10 Concessions - £7.50 Please call 01420 83262. Dr Noble is a harpsichordist and musicologist specialising in keyboard music of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. François Couperin, one of the composers whose music will be performed, said that his pieces ‘are portraits of a kind, which under my fingers have been found to be tolerable likenesses’.
