Kick off the Easter celebrations this Good Friday and celebrate our Spring re-opening for a jam-packed itinerary including free face painting and kids crafts; a tombola, a sewing workshop with guest artist Nicky Dillerstone, and our popular Bunny Trail.
11am to 3pm
Admission: Adults £5 (annual ticket allows unlimited return visits for 12 months); children FREE (see below for detail)
Herman Melville’s classic tale of revenge and retribution is retold in this inventive, comedic adventure on the high seas from the company behind ‘Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show’ and ‘Dracula! One Bloody Fang After Another’
All plot will be lampooned. All jokes will be harpooned.
Joseph Wright Hall. 7.30pm. Tickets £10 (advance) or £12 OTD
Wilderspin hosts Barton Civic Society’s February lecture by Andrew Robinson about the eighteenth-century gardener and landscape architect Capability Brown.
2pm – 3.30pm, Joseph Wright Hall, Non-members £4
Join us for our final Winter Warmer Open Day before our reopening in the Spring, and sample a slice of the 1940s as we learn how recycling and repurposing is nothing new!
11am-3pm
Free admission and refreshments
Our resident Community Theatre Group FRIENDS AT BARTON return with another family pantomime, transforming the Joseph Wright Hall into Witz End Farm. Will Demon Vanity steal the golden eggs or will Fairy Virtue save the day?
Book for our next popular general knowledge quiz.
Teams of up to six – or we can match you up with others.
£2 per person. 7pm start. Bar and raffle.
Tel. (01652) 635172 to book
Vere Foster was a Victorian philanthropist and educator described by the author Brendan Colgan, as an “English Gentleman and Irish Champion”.
During the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland he set up an agricultural training school and assisted the poor wherever he could, and personally helped with the re-settlement of thousands of emigrants to North America escaping starvation and disease.
For those unable to emigrate he set his sights on improving their life chances by lifting educational standards in Irish schools, spending a vast fortune building and equipping schools and designing his own ‘Copy Books’ for the teaching of writing.
Jean Cannon shares the story of one of the most remarkable and unifying figures in the history of post-famine Ireland. as part of our Barton Heritage Project partnership in association with Barton Civic Society.
Joseph Wright Hall, 2pm, free.
Join us for another popular quiz evening !
7pm (doors open 6.30pm)
Book your place or team (up to six) at £2 per person (01652 635172)
Bar.
We’re open on Friday 15th December between 11am and 3pm
Discover the Wilderspin Story – FREE museum admission!
School Life exhibition about the Barton Church School
Free Talk: “The Church School Archive” at 11am (doors open at 10.30 with refreshments)
Christmases Past in the Chatty Cafe 12pm – 2pm – reminisce and make a card with free refreshments
We are thrilled that our Memory Café Project, launched in 2022, has been awarded a Marsh Award for Museum Learning by the British Museum and the Marsh Charitable Trust.
Our volunteers piloted a selection of objects from our collection to see how they prompted discussion and recollections among older people. Then, Memory Boxes were put together for museum visitors to chat about over a cup of tea, and they were used too with residents from a care home as part of an intergenerational session with children from a local school.
A Chatty Café team has taken the project forward organising monthly drop-ins focussing on a theme for discussion and reminiscence.
The ‘Volunteers for Museum Learning’ Award forms part of a programme of awards presented by the Marsh Charitable Trust in the fields of science, ecology, conservation, heritage, literature and volunteering. The aim is to recognise those volunteers who engage directly with museum visitors in any capacity.
The Museum was the winner for the East Midlands region which involved some of our volunteers attending an award ceremony at the British Museum.
Although the Museum is closed over the winter period as an energy saving measure our volunteers will be organising Open Days during which the Chatty Café will be operating along with other special family activities – and we’re putting together plans for special Chatty Café events over the winter.
Photo caption:
Wilderspin volunteers Ian Wolseley and (right) Jean Cannon and Rose Jackson with Project Coordinator Ali Bodley.
Wilderspin National School
Queen Street
Barton-upon-Humber
DN18 5QP
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The Wilderspin National School is an independent museum, registered charity no. 1047187 and a Company Limited by Guarantee no. 2844791.