DERRY City and Strabane District Council’s Tower Museum have launched a packed programme of events and workshops to encourage more local people and visitors to discover and interact with their service.
Their Autumn Winter Learning Programme will run from November to January and contains events and workshops suitable for all audiences.
The schedule begins this Tuesday, November 8th, with the first in a series of ‘Tower Talks’ exploring various aspects of local history.
Acting Education Officer at Derry City and Strabane District Council, Ronan McConnell, encouraged the public to embrace the new programme and take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about local art and history.
“We hope the new programme will attract both local people and visitors to come along to the museum and learn more about our heritage, take part in heritage crafts and view the collections within the museum,” he said.
“The packed schedule of events caters for all ages and interests and I hope the public, particularly those who haven’t visited us before, take advantage of the opportunity to interact with us and discover our offering in a relaxed environment.”
The series of Tower Talks are among the highlights of the programme and will focus on local history including a World War One from Mabel Colhoun as well as talks on culinary practice and the Derry City Cemetery Records Project.
Another highlight is a series of coffee mornings, planned around the city’s art collection, which will allow people to drop in for a chat and see the objects on display for themselves in a non-judgmental environment.
Families may be particularly interested in a series of three Christmas Craft workshops where people can join in making decorations and view the museum’s heritage toy collections.
This Tuesday’s ‘Tower Talk’ begins at 7.30pm and will be hosted by Nic Wright from Hearthside Heritage.
His interactive session will guide participants through almost 10,000 years of history, from the arrival of Ireland’s first people, to the planting of the first potatoes.
The session consists of an overview of the development of prehistoric and early historic Irish society, approached through the lens of food and edible resources.
Along the way, the audience will have the opportunity to taste a variety of traditional foods from Bronze Age hearth cakes to plantation pottage.
For more information on the Autumn Winter Programme contact the Tower Museum on (028) 7137 2411 or email [email protected].
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