Saturday 9th August, 1pm – 3.30pm
This hands-on workshop invites you to create beautiful sun-printed artworks using plants and natural materials found in the museum garden. Read more “A Cyanotype Print Making Workshop with Alan Withington”
Thursday 17th July, 6pm-9pm
Wednesday 16th July, 1pm – 4pm
Invisible Light – Lumen Photograms and Alternative Process Prints
This hands-on workshop introduces some of the techniques behind the images featured in the ‘Invisible Light’ exhibition. You’ll be guided through the process of creating beautiful Lumen Photograms using botanicals such as leaves and flowers, on vintage darkroom photographic paper. Read more “An Alternative Photography Workshop with Alan Withington”
Saturday 14th June, 11am-3pm
Bring along your archaeological finds to be identified and recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. https://finds.org.uk/
Saturday 26th July, 2pm – 3pm
Reading Jane Austen in Regency Retford, a talk by Judith Hedley
Born 250 years ago this December, Jane Austen’s novels were published during a few short years early in the nineteenth century – years of growth and prosperity for Retford. Which local citizens were reading ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Emma’ and ‘Persuasion’? With the foundation of the Denman library a century in the future, how and where might they have been encountering these works we still enjoy so much? Did Retfordians compare their home town with Austen’s fictional small towns, Meryton and Highbury?
Looking at Austen’s life and works in the context of social and local history enables us to see them afresh in a most appropriate setting; there’s no need to know Austen’s novels in detail to enjoy a chance to explore this topical subject. Read more “Reading Jane Austen in Regency Retford”
Friday 2nd May and then the first Friday of each month, 2pm -3.30pm
The Friends of Bassetlaw Museum are delighted to announce the return of guided tours. They will focus on the Museum building, its history from its construction in the 1780s through to the present day, and the stories of the families that owned it.
Saturday 22nd February, 10:30am-3pm
Bring along your archaeological finds to be identified and recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database.
https://finds.org.uk/ Read more “Finds Day”
Thursday 6th March 2025, 6.30pm – 7.45pm
This event is now fully booked.
Join dress historians Lucy Adlington and Meridith Towne of History Wardrobe for an exciting presentation on Art Deco fashion.
Sleek, chic and super modern. Fashions of the 1920s showcase sensational dressmaking skills.
From slinky bohemian pjs to beautiful bias-cut gowns, we explore a fascinating array of home-made and couture-quality clothes from this dazzling decade.
Read more “Divine Deco – the Art of the Dressmaker”
Thursday 20th March, 2pm-3pm
A gleaming medieval seal had been found at Gringley-on-the-Hill, but who was the Constance named around the seal’s edge?
Benedict Jephcote looks into how the seal-bearer’s identity was found and why Constance was an important figure in medieval England’s history.
Read more “Finding the seal-bearer: Constance of medieval Gringley”