23 July 2015
10am to 4pm
As part of the national Festival of Archaeology, please join us at Abingdon Museum for a fun filled and informative day focusing on the history of Abingdon through Archaeology. Some of the highlights of the day will include:
Object identification with Anni Byard (back by popular demand), who will be on hand to help identify your home finds and artefacts. If you...
13 June - 18 October
In 1965 a new research centre opened near Abingdon to study the science and engineering conditions needed to produce electrical energy from fusion. Today, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is the UK’s national fusion research laboratory. It includes JET (Joint European Torus) - the flagship European project and MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) - the UK’s fusion energy...
12 September - 20 December
The Thames is steeped in tradition and flows through the history of England. In 2015 it is the focus of a wonderful new exhibition by HapticArt, a group of nine Stitched Textile artists, who have created a specially worked display for Abingdon Museum. Their approach to textile work is diverse, expressing their own individual interests and skills in various mediums, from...
24 October - 1 November
In support of the BDA National Dyslexia Awareness Week (DAW), pupils from The Unicorn School in Abingdon, aged 6-14 years, present an exhibition of artwork, sculpture and descriptive works that celebrate their creativity and illustrate some of the learning techniques used.
25 April - 1 September
Between 2001-2011 excavations on Trendles Field, Marcham, unearthed evidence for ritual and religious practices beginning in the Iron Age. They continued into the Roman period when a temple and semi-amphitheatre were constructed. The site produced thousands of artefacts, many of them gifts to the gods, proving this to be a site of national importance.
Thanks to a 3-year...