Events at the Oxfordshire Museum

We’ve got something for everyone at the Oxfordshire Museum and other venues in the county.

Events at the Oxfordshire Museum

Woodstock: Rhymetime

weekly on Friday, starting from Friday, December 6, 2024 - 10.30am, forever
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Build social, language and emotional skills at one of our fun sessions. Sing along to your favourite rhymes with musical instruments, toys and…

Open Art Competition 2025

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Call for submissions to our Open Art Competition 2025 'Animals’ Inspired by the Museum service collection this year…

Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum Children's Creative Writing Competition 2025

A snake wound around itself made from stamps with a leather tongue and eyes drawn on the head part.

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The Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum are delighted to announce their first ever Children's creative Writing Competition. We know we have…

Michael Black: Chisel, Wood, Stone

A black and white photo of a man sat in a chair surrounded by books and objects.

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This exhibition about the life and works of sculptor Michael Black opens on 15 March. Michael Black, who carved the Emperors’ Heads outside…

Toddler Yoga

In a colourful tent a young girl in a pink tutu practises yoga with a female teachers showing her the moves in front of her.

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About the Workshop In toddler yoga we learn to explore movement using yoga poses, props and sound.  Children will: …

Adderbury, Deddington and District Photographic Society Exhibition

The image shows silhouetted photographers on a hillside and the text reads AD and D Photographic Society

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To coincide with Oxfordshire Artweeks we will be welcoming Adderbury, Deddington and District Photographic Society to Swalcliffe Barn for an…

Frame Natural Weaving and Flax Fiber

A piece of material with blue fabric and flax woven through it.

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About the Course Participants will have opportunities to make their own handwoven pieces using wooden frame loom out of Emi’s favourite…

Victoria County History Workshop Part 3 – Farming, estates, communities

Black and white image of a group children outside a stone building.

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About the Workshop Are you interested in exploring the history of your town, village, house, or area? This short five-session series is…

Toddler Yoga

In a colourful tent a young girl in a pink tutu practises yoga with a female teachers showing her the moves in front of her.

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About the Workshop In toddler yoga we learn to explore movement using yoga poses, props and sound.  Children will: …

Adderbury, Deddington and District Photographic Society Exhibition

The image shows silhouetted photographers on a hillside and the text reads AD and D Photographic Society

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To coincide with Oxfordshire Artweeks we will be welcoming Adderbury, Deddington and District Photographic Society to Swalcliffe Barn for an…

Botanical Stitching

A series of materials with different coloured thread stitched into patterns on them and coloured thread on bobbins at the top of the image.

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About the Course This workshop ideally run in the spring and summer time when there are many flowers and leaves in the museum garden.…

Performance by Eynsham Morris

A Group of Morris men performing in a market square with shops behind them and colourful clothing and streamers.

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In honour of Michael Black and the exhibition being hosted at the Oxfordshire Museum we will have a performance by Eynsham Morris. Eynsham…

An Ox for Oxford

Yellow background with the words An Ox for Oxford on and images of a cartoon Ox with flowers round its neck surrounded by colourful flowers.

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Join us this Half Term for more Michael Black inspired activities. Take part in model making to make your own Ox for Oxford and make garlands to…

An Ox for Oxford

Yellow background with the words An Ox for Oxford on and images of a cartoon Ox with flowers round its neck surrounded by colourful flowers.

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Join us this Half Term for more Michael Black inspired activities. Take part in model making to make your own Ox for Oxford and make garlands to…

Stone Circles and Celebrations

A yellow background with the words stone circles and celebrations on and various graphical images of stone circles below.

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Join us for another family activity this time with Finds Liaison Officer Ed Caswell we will be exploring stone circles, secrets and celebrations.…

Finds session

Pottery pot broken with coins spilling out of it.

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Come along between 12pm and 1pm and share your finds with our Finds Liaison officer. Find out all about how to report finds and treasure.

Stone Circles and Celebrations

A yellow background with the words stone circles and celebrations on and various graphical images of stone circles below.

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Join us for another family activity this time with Finds Liaison Officer Ed Caswell we will be exploring stone circles, secrets and celebrations.…

Coat of Arms

A blue background with a graphic shield in the centre in blue and yellow with fleur-de-lil in different colours around the outside of the shield.

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Join us for more crafting fun in this family activity design to inspire you to make a heraldic shield of your favourite things.

Coat of Arms

A blue background with a graphic shield in the centre in blue and yellow with fleur-de-lil in different colours around the outside of the shield.

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Join us for more crafting fun in this family activity design to inspire you to make a heraldic shield of your favourite things.

Family Yoga

Two children stand in a brightly coloured space in front of a teacher all with arms clasped above their heads.

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About the workshop Once a month, I’m offering a session for families to come together to move, connect to the breath and…

Create a cosy cottage - Liberty Cottage

A cottage seen with printed pattern cottage roofs and washing line detail.

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About the Workshop Spend the morning creating a wooden cottage sculpture. You will sand, hammer, drill, felt, paint and…

Victoria County History Workshop Part 4 – Exploring Religion

The inside of a church with red carpet leading up to the altar

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About the Workshop Are you interested in exploring the history of your town, village, house, or area? This short five-session series is…

Fused Glass

A sea scene in glass with blue glass for the sea and two little boats on it.

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About the Workshop Morning project - a free standing glass curve using small glass pieces to create a flower garden.…

Plant Sale of plants from the Museum Garden as part of Big Green Week.

Plants potted ready for sale.

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Small specimens of plants from around the garden, such as our famous Hellebores and winter-flowering Sarcococca, hardy Geraniums, Sedum, Cineraria…

Compost demonstration as part of Big Green Week

A washing up bowl containing waste vegetables ready to compost.

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Come along and have a look at our composting demonstration put together by our volunteer gardeners as part of Big Green Week. It will be under the…

Victoria County History Workshop Part 5 – Exploring Market towns

Painted picture of a market square with buttercross at the centre.

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About the Workshop Are you interested in exploring the history of your town, village, house, or area? This short five-session series is…

BBOWT in the Museum Garden as part of Big Green Week

A smiling man with white hair stands to the right or an information board holding leaflets.

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Come along to the Oxfordshire Museum during Big Green Week and find out what BBOWT are up to in the area.

BBOWT in the Museum Garden as part of Big Green Week

A smiling man with white hair stands to the right or an information board holding leaflets.

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Come along to the Oxfordshire Museum during Big Green Week and find out what BBOWT are up to in the area.

Garden tour with our volunteer Gardeners

A border with large green shrubs and some plants with pink and purple flowers in.

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Join our expert volunteer gardeners for a closer look at the beautiful museum garden. The tour is free but tickets are limited. …

Garden tour with our volunteer Gardeners

A border with large green shrubs and some plants with pink and purple flowers in.

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Join our volunteer gardeners to get an expert tour of the beautiful Museum Gardens.

Make your own hand tied posy from the garden

A hand holding a tided up bunch of greenery from the garden.

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Drop along and join our volunteer gardens to create a posy that is beautiful and sustainable. This is a lovely plastic-and-airmiles-free personal…

BBOWT in the Museum Garden as part of Big Green Week

A smiling man with white hair stands to the right or an information board holding leaflets.

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Come along to the Oxfordshire Museum during Big Green Week and find out what BBOWT are up to in the area.

BBOWT in the Museum Garden as part of Big Green Week

A smiling man with white hair stands to the right or an information board holding leaflets.

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Come along to the Oxfordshire Museum during Big Green Week and find out what BBOWT are up to in the area.

Museum Resource Centre Tour

The exterior of a large building with a curving roof and cars parked outside it.

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A 45 minute guided tour of the Oxfordshire Museums collection held in storage at the Museum Resource Centre. Tickets…

Ice Age inspired Creative Writing

A box with letters at the top right. two blue stones at the top. In the centre is a note book with creative writing written on and a pen is positioned on the right.

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About the Workshops Join Flis Tattersall for a series of four 2.5 workshops to inspire and support you to create your own writing using…

Printing with Nature

A table with a print in brown and white of a leaf pattern and a tube of paint on top. In the background is a folded print different leaves and twigs inspired by nature in browns and greens.

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About the course During this fun and hands-on print making workshop we will explore the addictive process of botanical printing. We will…

Life as a stone age man - talk

A man dressed inn leathers sat under a shelter in front of a fire.

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About the talk Join Manse Ahmad form the award winning Channel 4 documentary 'Surviving the Stone Age' as he shares his journey to…

The Oxfordshire Museum presents Danny George Wilson

A short white man, with strawberry blonde hair and black rimmed glasses with a black and red checked shirt over a blue t-shirt stands in front of a corrugated metal building.

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About the event Danny George Wilson the well-known frontman of the band Danny and the Champions of the World…

Arrow Making - Morning

Feather made fletch of a homemade arrow.

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About the workshop Linking to our exciting Ice Age exhibition, why not take your experience a step further and explore some of the skills…

Arrow Making - Afternoon

Feather made fletch of a homemade arrow.

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About the workshop Linking to our exciting Ice Age exhibition, why not take your experience a step further and explore some of the skills…

Flint Knapping

A lot of flint knapped axe heads all displayed together.

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About the workshop Discover the art of the oldest craft in the world: Flintknapping. How did prehistoric people make tools to survive the…

Axe making for children - morning

A collection of hand made axes.

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About the Workshop Linking to our exciting Ice Age exhibition, why not take your experience a step further and explore some of the skills…

Axe making for children - afternoon

A collection of hand made axes.

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About the Workshop Linking to our exciting Ice Age exhibition, why not take your experience a step further and explore some of the skills…

440 presents Much ado about Nothing and Macbeth

The words much ado about nothing and Macbeth with little illustrations on them of lips and cauldrons and witches hats.

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Four Forty Theatre return for a raucous retelling of Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth - The Comedy! Both performed in one night by only four…

Cosy Cottage - Shuttle Row

A row of tiny houses sat on an old weaving shuttle with tiny colourful daisies decorating it.

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About the Workshops Shuttle Row Workshop Spend the day creating a wooden cottage sculpture, using a vintage wooden shuttle…

Fire Lighting - morning

A small wood fire in a wood.

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About the workshop Linking to our exciting Ice Age exhibition, why not take your experience a step further and explore some of the skills…

Fire Lighting - afternoon

A small wood fire in a wood.

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About the workshop Linking to our exciting Ice Age exhibition, why not take your experience a step further and explore some of the skills…

Family Day at Swalcliffe Barn

The outline of a teddies head made with card and a lovely smiley face on it.

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Join us at the magical Swalcliffe barn for some fun, family friendly activities. Staff and volunteers will be onsite all day with activities…

Family Day at Swalcliffe Barn

A paper horses head affixed to a large straw with colourful paper main on a green background.

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Join us at the magical Swalcliffe Barn for some fun, family friendly activities. Staff and volunteers will be onsite all day with activities…

Fabularium at Swalcliffe Barn

A theatre set with three actors on the stage. The words Fabularium are on the front of the set and all of the actors have different animal masks, a lion in the centre fox to the right and chicken to the left. The set has scenery with trees on it and a lions head, rabbit and wolf's head also appear. The words above the stage say Reynard the Fox.

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About the performance The tale of Reynard the Fox follows the woodlands most infamous scoundrel who prides himself on being the trickster…

Fabularium at The Oxfordshire Museum

A theatre set with three actors on the stage. The words Fabularium are on the front of the set and two of the actors have musical instruments. The set has scenery with trees on it and a lions head, rabbit and wolf's head also appear.

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About the performance The tale of Reynard the Fox follows the woodlands most infamous scoundrel who prides himself on being the trickster…

Cordage Demonstration

wrapped cordage cord which looks a bit like homemade string.

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Sally Pointer will be at the Oxfordshire Museum to demonstrate prehistoric textiles. Linking to the Ice Age Exhibition Sally will be joining…

Introduction to Prehistoric Textiles

a collection of cordage materials, cord and bone needle.

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About the Workshop Discover the earliest origins and uses of textiles through hands in exploration with experimental archaeologist, Sally…

Watercolour Special Effects

A watercolour seascape.

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About the Workshop Discover how to create magical effects combining watercolour with such items as cling-film, wax,
salt crystals and…

Japanese Shibori Dye for Beginners

a collection of fabric with indigo dyes on and a box with different needles on top of it.

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About the Workshop Shibori is a Japanese resist dyeing technique that uses hand sewing and indigo dye. Participants will create simple…

Sculpt a Highland Cow

A sculpture of a highland cow in clay.

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About the workshop Enjoy a day of sculpting a highland cow in clay with ceramicist Ros Ingram. Clay and firing of work included in cost…

Katazome Japanese Print

A selection of three pieces of work with Katazome, Japanese printing on.

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About the Workshop Katazome is a traditional Japanese print and dye technique that uses rice paste. Participants will create their own…

Taste of Boro Stitching

A shirt with different fabrics on it.

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About the Workshop Boro is Japanese mending technique. Participants will have a couple of vintage fabrics, a plain fabric and an indigo…

Beginners Leathercraft

A red braided bracelet.

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About the Workshop Learn all the starter techniques to make your own leather goods at home and take home at least 3 items you make in the…

Mosaic Hanging Stars

A mosaic star hanging in a tree.

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About the Workshop During this fun and easy going workshop you will have the opportunity to create a number of mosaic stars using…

Beginners Leathercraft

A red braided bracelet.

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About the Workshop Learn all the starter techniques to make your own leather goods at home and take home at least 3 items you make in the…

Create a Willow Deer

A willow deer in the garden.

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About the course Enjoy a day of creating a willow deer. All materials in cost of workshop. Lunch is included. About the Tutors -…

Create a Willow Deer

A willow deer in the garden.

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About the course Enjoy a day of creating a willow deer. All materials in cost of workshop. Lunch is included. About the Tutors -…

Wreath Making - morning

A hand made Christmas wreath hung on a door.

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About the course Start your Christmas decorating by joining us at the Oxfordshire Museum to create your very own door wreath. Oxfordshire…

Wreath Making - afternoon

A hand made Christmas wreath hung on a door.

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About the course Start your Christmas decorating by joining us at the Oxfordshire Museum to create your very own door wreath. Oxfordshire…