Wallingford Museum is a colourful, delightfully intimate & family friendly local history museum. We were Semi Finalists in the National Oddities Championship!
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
6 Mar 2025
@WallingfordMus is a fantastic place to visit. Lots on brewing in the town right now and
6 Mar 2025
Chess piece, Bishop
12th - 13th century
20 mm
Wallingford Museum, UK
The piece was excavated in 2015 from the back yard of the museum which is where Priory of Holy Trinity once stood.
📷 @WallingfordMus
#chess #ChessmenAndChessSets #bishop #IslamicArt #MedievalArt #MiddleAges
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Chess piece, Bishop
12th - 13th century
20 mm
Wallingford Museum, UK
The piece was excavated in 2015 from the back yard of the museum which is where Priory of Holy Trinity once stood.
📷 @WallingfordMus
#chess #ChessmenAndChessSets #bishop #IslamicArt #MedievalArt #MiddleAges
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
14 Feb 2025
It’s the last day of Green Action Week! But not the end of incorporating sustainable practices into our everyday 🌻
Finding new uses for objects helps us be sustainable - just like this tin being used to store medical instruments.
#GreenActionWeek #HistSci #MedicalInstruments
ALT A metal decorated tin, showing copies of paintings on each side. Around the tin are medical instruments.
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
14 Feb 2025
Miss Pratt and students, Danica, Dan, Ben and Hannah, headed to Queen Anne's School, Reading, yesterday for the UKMT Team Maths Challenge! Miss Pratt said, "They did very well against stiff competition and came 6th out of 20 teams!"
Congratulations team!
#ws_maths #ws_ukmt
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
15 Feb 2025
Great opportunity here for #ThamesPath walkers in Oxfordshire and Berkshire who post their photos of beautiful flowers, trees, birds and butterflies.
Sign up 👇 to the #CityNatureChallenge with @tverc
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
14 Feb 2025
And they’re off! It’s a busy half term break with two ski trips departing this afternoon and a Geography trip to Morocco. Look out for photos post half term!
Have a wonderful break everyone!
#ws_trips #ws_halfterm #ws_ski #ws_morocco #ws_extracurricular #ws_geography
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13 Feb 2025
Today's #OnlineArtExchange is Valentine's. This artist's name fits!Medea the Sorceress by Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904) is in @lb_southwark Art Collection. Medea helped Jason on his Golden Fleece quest, then he betrayed her. Here Medea prepares to poison his new wife. 😱
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
12 Feb 2025
Can our followers help our friends in Buckinghamshire?
12 Feb 2025
We've had this mysterious pole in the archive for years now and we've still got no clue what it is. So, once again, we are turning to you for help. It's a bamboo pole about 10ft long (staff member for scale), with a flexible pair of tongs attached to the end. Any ideas?
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
13 Feb 2025
When we think of Romans, the image that comes to mind is often a legion of stern-faced soldiers. But this week, Primania, Venusta and Junia Berenice are getting their due!
Take a glimpse into the lives of women in Roman Britain through our collections: rdguk.info/3aUzZ
ALT silver coin of Julia Domna on white background
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13 Feb 2025
The team at Wallingford Museum are looking forward to opening once again, from Sat 1st March 2025. As usual the winter months have been hectic and busy behind the scenes.
Our 2025 exhibition is Barley to Beer, the Story of Malting, & Pubs in Wallingford.
wallingfordmuseum.org.uk/exh…
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
11 Feb 2025
🔎 Sometimes it's worth a closer look...
Hazel catkins hang from bare branches, wafting pollen in the breeze. The flowers appear as tiny, bright-pink 'tentacles', easily passed over by a casual glance. Take a closer look at this minute flower as it waits to catch pollen.
ALT The bright-pink 'tentacles' of a hazel flower emerging from a green bud, with another closed bud on the branch besides it.
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
12 Feb 2025
Tell us there’s a school visit without telling us there’s a school visit 🤣
#museumlife
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
12 Feb 2025
📚 Which is your favourite Miss Marple story?
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
13 Feb 2025
It's World Radio day - you can mark it by visiting the Bodleian's free exhibition at the Weston Library "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home", which has just opened.
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/list…
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
12 Feb 2025
Norman Heatley made use of any available vessel to grow penicillin. The lab was home to stacked biscuit tins, pie dishes and bed pans 👀
The biscuit tins risk sadness comparable to opening a biscuit tin at Christmas only to find sewing supplies…
#OxfordScience #MedicalHistory
ALT Stacked metal biscuit tins, pie dishes and bed pans on a green back ground. All have openings filled with wads of cotton to seal them.
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
12 Feb 2025
Meet Pauline, one of 20 wonderful Education Volunteers who help us deliver heritage & natural world sessions🙏
"It’s really rewarding, the children are so excited to visit. One group even came wearing Stone Age outfits for a Clumps history workshop!"
👉earthtrust.org.uk/outdoor-le…
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
13 Feb 2025
Local volunteers arrange special visits to the site for groups such as schools, scouts. Message us to arrange a visit to one of the UK's largest roman villas for your group.
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
7 Feb 2025
Who Owns Museum Collections? And what should we do with them?
Saturday 29 March, 10.00-16.00
bit.ly/3QfisUJ
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Wallingford Museum retweeted
2 Feb 2025
It's Candlemas, festival of light in the lengthening days of early spring. An Anglo-Saxon sermon for this ancient and beautiful feast, when 'þæt soðe Leoht, Crist, wæs geboren to þam temple' ('the true Light, Christ, was borne to the temple'): aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
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