Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, was one of many famous Americans who visited Broadway in the 1920s. More often than not he'd stay at the Lygon Arms. Inspired by the Science Museum in London, he established a new museum in Michigan which continues to this day. The Henry Ford includes a Living [...]
The museum was full of screams at the weekend - in a good way. As you can see, our younger visitors wore some scary costumes and got a chance to meet our real-life witch. I'll let the pictures do the talking (for a change).
When the clocks go back, the museum changes its opening times. From Tuesday, 2nd November, our opening time will stay as 10am but our closing time will change to 4pm, last entry 3.30pm. Don't forget we are closed on Mondays. A quick reminder that our brilliant special exhibition, Sargent, His Sister And Their Friends will [...]
Our Halloween celebrations reach a peak at the weekend. The Childrens Halloween Trail will continue to run. Our resident magician will be conjuring up some magic shows at 11am and 2pm on Saturday and Sunday. To round off the weekend our very own witch, a real one, will visit the museum on Sunday, ready to [...]
The museum always puts on something a bit special for Halloween and this year is no different. Our Halloween events will run between 23rd and 31st October. During the weekends, we'll be conjuring up a magic show from our in-house magician and there will be a special guest appearance from our resident witch - a [...]
We're delighted to announce that our popular exhibition, Sargent, His Sister and Their Friends, has been extended until 5th December. It includes paintings by the renowned artist John Singer Sargent, his sister Emily and two of his contemporaries, Augustus John and Philip Wilson Steer. During her life, Emily Sargent was overshadowed by the reputation of [...]
Our next talk will be about the loss of the Titanic and RMS Carpathia's race to reach the stricken liner - with a Broadway connection. It will be presented by Paul Barnett, a maritime historian. There are still a few tickets left at time of writing. The talk will take place at the museum on [...]
The other day, one of our visitors told me we had a piece of Blind Earl porcelain in our museum and also politely pointed out it didn't have a label. We asked the experts at the Ashmolean to delve into its past. It's a dessert plate made by Worcester Porcelain. The pattern was introduced in [...]
Among our many treasures we have a superb longcase clock, built in 1715 by Samuel Barrow and still going strong. It has an eight day movement which is housed in a walnut veneer case with marquetry decoration. It needs to be wound every week and our chief wind-up merchant is Phil. Every Tuesday, he dons [...]
Our next talk will be about the loss of the Titanic and RMS Carpathia's race to reach the stricken liner - with a Broadway connection. It will be presented by Paul Barnett, a maritime historian. There are still a few tickets left at time of writing. The talk will take place at the museum on [...]
