Christmas Quiz Night
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.
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
The Wilderspin National School has received help and support from the following organisations:
The Wilderspin National School is an independent museum, registered charity no. 1047187 and a Company Limited by Guarantee no. 2844791.