Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, 1897
What’s on
What was life like for local children in the early 1900s? Now’s your chance to find out!
This photographic exhibition uses local postcards and family photographs to explore some of the aspects of children’s lives one hundred years ago. This was the age of the postcard, and this collection of local postcards captures snapshots of the past of children playing in the street, at school, or simply posing for the photographer. Other images show them taking part in sporting activities, on church outings, or joining in with national and family celebrations.
Discover the haunted buildings, ghostly secrets, and spooky stories of St Neots by joining one of our monthly Ghost Walks. The walk last approximately 90mins, and is based around St Neots town centre.
Wednesday 19th February
Wednesday 18th March
Tickets £6 per person, available in the Museum or via Eventbrite
Select Thursdays & Fridays:
20th & 21st February – Silly Sock Bugs
9th April – Easter Bunny Baskets
16th & 17th April – Favourite Places
Come along to St Neots Museum and get involved in some of our wonderful family orientated crafty activities. You can take home everything you create! Keep an eye on our social feeds for more information on each session.
Drop in event, £4 per child
Join us in the Museum for fun history based activities for your little ones! Explore the museum and take home your own art creations!
Music Music Music
In this workshop we’ll be following a sounds trail, taking a look at a gramophone from the collection and working on a musical craft activity.
Drop in event, £3.50 per child
The Friends of St Neots Museum present a fundraising showing of the dramatic Second World War film Carve Her Name With Pride, starring Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield and Jack Warner, which tells the true story of Violette Szabo G.C. a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent who flew from RAF Tempsford on her first mission into German occupied France.
The film has been chosen to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the 80th anniversary of VE Day (8th May 1945) which is being marked in 2020 with a Bank Holiday on Friday 8th May.
Tickets, at just £10, will be available from the Museum from 4th February 2020
The River Great Ouse has played a central role in the life of the St Neots area since the woolly mammoth roamed here in prehistoric times.
This talk reveals local stories with links to the river, from barges to pleasure boats, from accidents to Viking invaders. Come along and discover the role the river has played in local life.
Tickets £3 (free for Friends of the Museum)
Available on Eventbrite or in the Museum
Brighten up your March and April with a visit to our first artist exhibition of the year! From local views and a summer lido, to capital cities across the world, Sarah Wheatley’s vibrant paintings encourage us to see the world in full technicolour.
Join us in the Museum for fun history based activities for your little ones! Explore the museum and take home your own art creations!
Museum Animals
In this workshop we’ll be searching for animals around the Museum, listening to animal stories and making our very own animal ears to take away!
Drop in event, £3.50 per child
Come along to St Neots Museum for a FREE family fun day, run by students of Longsands Academy. The students will be hosting a day of fun trails and craft activities to get involved in!
Join us in the Museum for fun history based activities for your little ones! Explore the museum and take home your own art creations!
Railways
In this workshop we’ll be going on an imaginary train journey around the Museum, looking at train tickets from our collection, and getting stuck in with a printing activity on wheels!
Drop in event, £3.50 per child
In 2020 our Living History Festival will be a multi-period event with actors and historians from a wide variety of periods gathered for the day on St Neots Market Square.
We are LOVING your sock bugs created in the Museum today! There's another chance to have a go from 11am - 3pm tomorrow! 😎👍
So today is #LoveYourPetDay. How are we supposed to choose our favourite? And also, can we class a dis-articulated woolly mammoth as a pet? 🐘 Serious question... #ThursdayThoughts
