Hertford Museum Blog

I hope everyone’s enjoying Half Term. We’ve been very busy at the museum with our Roman Invasion!

But it isn’t just holiday activities that are keeping us busy, every week we receive questions, bookings, donations and all kinds of research enquiries so we thought this week we’d let you know some of our day-to-day enquiries!

This is just a selection of what’s been going on behind the scenes over the last week.

• We ‘ve had lots of calls asking for details of our Roman activities and 85 children took part on our first day! There are lots of fantastic masks, drawings and mosaics being created.

• A school have contacted our Learning Officer, Eleanor, about borrowing one of our Loans Boxes. These are full of objects that children can handle as well as helpful pictures and information for teachers to use.
• A visitor was particularly interested in the Hertingfordbury Cowper School log books on display in our Hertingfordbury and the Greens exhibition and wants to come in and look through them to try and find some members of his family who lived in the village in the 1800s.
• We’ve taken in a loan of paintings by Lionel Horsnell, a local artist, that we’re going to have on display in May.
• Hudsons Dentists have been talking to us about some objects they’ve donated over the years that they may be borrowing back for an anniversary exhibition (the dentist’s chair in our main gallery came from them!)
• Our volunteers are all learning how to use our new MODEs database and we’ve had a new volunteers start as well (unfortunately she’s the last person we’ll be able to take on for a while!)
  
• We’ve been finalising details for our Museums at Night event this year, it’s going to be on the 19th of May and we’ll give you more details nearer the time!

• We’ve had several enquiries about booking our Andrews Room from different groups.
• Planning for the Hertford Carnival is starting- we’ll be open on the day and you might see the museum involved in other ways too!
• CP Timber have kindly donated a laptop to us that they no longer need.
  
• Our latest acquisition is a One Man Band! Tony Crowley was a local celebrity who performed on several TV shows (including Opportunity Knocks and Rainbow) and who held the world record for the longest continuous session of One Man Band-ing. He died last year and his family have kindly donated his instruments and several pictures to the museum.

It’s certainly been a busy time for our new curator, Sara Taylor, to start but we’re very glad she’s here!