ONWARD AND UPWARD AT THE MUSEUM
Community News January 2013
ONWARD AND UPWARD AT THE MUSEUM
We’ve had our brief pause for turkey and a mince pie and we’re off again, up at the Museum.
2012 left us smiling (perhaps a little wearily). We’d staged an exhibition for the Jubilee and another on Policing in Halesworth – our first winter exhibition. We’d sold out two editions of Mike Fordham’s book on the Blyth Navigation. We’d brought the town together in celebrating Halesworth’s Sporting Past. We’d packed out The Cut for a lecture on the newly discovered ‘Halesworth hero’, Thomas Fella. We’d raised funds, with the help of local people, to buy the fabulous Wissett Bronze Age hoards. We’d found ourselves some terrific new volunteers, doubling the number who are now helping out with all our activities. And, best of all, you’d rewarded us by showing up at our events and contacting us at almost three times the level of the previous year, while many other museums are watching numbers decline.
Now for 2013. Encouraged by your support and enthusiasm, we’re planning two new summer displays in the Museum: one on Toys of Yesteryear, the other on Dairying in the Halesworth area. We’re hoping to launch a series of history talks, open to anyone with an interest in the past. We’re going to publish a new book of Victorian photographs of Halesworth. We plan to put the Wissett Hoard on display once it’s been properly conserved. And, late in the summer we’re going to launch a big new project on the 1970s, involving us in displaying lots of photographs and objects gathered from local people and interviewing people about local life in the Age of Abba, the 3-Day Week, Evel Knievel, ‘The Good Life’, Flares and Loons. So dust off your platforms, climb aboard your Space Hopper and come and join us. Who says museums are just bones and dust!