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Events 2012

Events at the County Museum include historic re-enactments, murder mystery, children's activity weeks and the ever-popular transport event. Our exciting events programme for 2012 is listed below.

Cider Making Medieval event Festival of transport

All events are from 11am-5pm unless stated otherwise

January

By popular demand we will be extending the run of our 2011 exhibition until Sunday 13 May - Exhibition

Family At War - EXHIBITION

Discover the world of the Lawley family in 1942 and learn about life on the Home Front in Worcestershire. Find out about rationing, the Home Guard, evacuees and local hospital camps as you explore how the average family did their bit to keep the country running, support those on the front line and ensure victory for the Allies.

February

Tuesday 14 – Friday 17 February, 10.30am-4.00pm

Celebration Days – Holiday Activities

Our family activities celebrate the worldwide festivals and special celebration days of February.

March

Sunday 18 March

Free entry for all Mums on Mother's Day plus a special menu in the Café

April

Creatures Great and Small – Holiday Activities

Bank Holiday Monday 9 April, 11am-5pm

Come and meet a variety of scaly, feathered and furry friends, including Easter chicks and lambs!

Tuesday 11 - Friday 14 April, 10.30am-4.00pm

Fun craft activities with an animal theme

May

Bank Holiday Monday 7 May

Just Art!

Board the Mobile Museum bus and explore the new exhibition 'Just Art' which looks at many different forms of art including sculpture, drama, painting, poetry, decorative arts and dance. Meet our artist in residence, get inspired and create some fantastic works of art and craft to take home! Arty fun for all ages and abilities.

Friday 18 May, 7.30-10.30pm

Bats About Hartlebury

Part of the Museums at Night initiative

Dare you join us as we track down the various bats that live at the Castle? Participants meet at 7.30pm for a seasonal meal in our Café. Afterwards you will enjoy an illustrated talk about these fascinating creatures and a walk around the Castle grounds using detection equipment to identify them. Adult tickets £16, children's tickets £8 – must be pre-booked.

Tuesday 29 May until Spring 2012

Wigs, Waistcoats & Wild Behaviour - EXHIBITION

From elegance to excess in Georgian Britain...

Find out about the elegant fashions, extravagant taste and wild behaviour of the Georgians. See beautiful examples of costume, home furnishings, books and other items from the Georgian era including a stunning Sedan Chair. Get involved by designing your own Georgian library or trying a Georgian make over, but remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

June

Monday 4 June – Friday 8 June, 10.30am-4.00pm

Jubilation! – Holiday Activities

Fun children's craft activities with a Royal theme. Follow the 1950's trail, make a royal crown, decorate a commemorative scroll and lots more

Sunday 17 June

Traveller's Tales

Join us for a colourful celebration of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller arts and culture as part of GRT History Month

July

Sunday 1 July

A Festival of Transport

From bicycles to tractors, cars to steam engines - see history in motion as all types of historic transport wheels its way to Hartlebury. Includes a craft fair in the Great Hall.

August

Tuesdays to Fridays throughout August, 10.30-4.00pm

Time Travel Crafts – Holiday Activities

Travel back and forth through time with our fun family craft activities exploring ancient and modern civilisations.

Bank Holiday Monday 27 August

Let's Rock!

As part of the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geofest - http://www.geopark.org.uk/

Come and learn more about rocks, fossils and dinosaurs with experts from the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust. Make a trilobite mask, cast a fossil, design your own ancient swamp or seascape, follow the Dino Detective Trail and meet Vernon the life size Velociraptor!

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