What's on

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

The Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum hold monthly talks on a varied and fascinating range of topics. The talks are presented face-to-face at the museum and on Zoom. They are held at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday of the month. 

For full details go to www.friendsoftom.org.uk

All events and activities

Woodstock: Rhymetime

Children sitting on the floor listening to an adult reading a book out loud.

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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

Two dogs in a greyscale photo event

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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…

After Dark at the Museum

Spooky image with dark figures in the distance and lots of objects around. A logo with Woodstock Ghost Walk and a spooky figure in the bottom right of the image.

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Hosted by Woodstock Ghosts Works this is a intimate ghost experience as numbers are kept deliberately small to allow for the best experience.…

Sculpt a Ceramic Guinea Fowl

Two ceramic grey guinea fowl with red detail around the face and white spots sit on a garden wall.

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About the course Enjoy a morning of sculpting a guinea fowl in clay with ceramicist Ros Ingram. Clay and firing of work…

Create a spring wreath

Green wreath with eggs and birds on to celebrate spring

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About the course Welcome in the Spring or Easter by joining us at the Oxfordshire Museum to create your very own door wreath. Oxfordshire…

Moving Forward

Heads made out of cardboard on a yellow background.

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Make a fun face using card and paper, worthy of leading a procession.

Moving Forward

Heads made out of cardboard on a yellow background.

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Make a fun face using card and paper, worthy of leading a procession.

History Hunters - Roman Heads

The detail of a coloured in Roman Head

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Colour and create your own Roman Emperors head to take home

Finds session

Pottery pot broken with coins spilling out of it.

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Bring your finds along to the Oxfordshire Finds Liaison Officer.

History Hunters - Roman Heads

The detail of a coloured in Roman Head

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Colour and create your own Roman Emperors head to take home.

Glorious Gargoyles

Image showing a stone funny face of a gargoyle.

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Learn some fun gargoyle facts and make your own gargoyle from air hardening clay to take home.

Glorious Gargoyles

Image showing a stone funny face of a gargoyle.

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Learn some fun gargoyle facts and make your own gargoyle from air hardening clay to take home.

Cosy Art - Paper and clay, Angels and Daemons

Angels made out of paper with various detail added to them.

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Come along and enjoy creating art in a relaxed friendly atmosphere. 

Paint, Print and collage

Black paper with the image of a orange vase with black patterns and blue flowers with green leave all made with print and collage.

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This informal and hands-on printing workshop will explore the wonderful, messy and fun techniques of printing for collage. During this…

Paper plate Angels

Paper angles with yellow detailing.

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Make fun paper angels to take home.

Paper plate Angels

Paper angles with yellow detailing.

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Make fun paper angels to take home.

Moveable Magnetics

Images of Roman heads coloured in on magnetic paper.

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Make your own Roman head inspired Fridge Magnets and experiment with a magnetic puzzle.

Junk Modelling

a birds head made of junk in front of the Michael Black objects inspired by junk.

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Seeing things in a different way… using recycled materials to create models inspired by our Michael Black exhibition.

Mr and Mrs Bottle Top

Images of people, a lady on the left and a man on the right. Both are free standing and have bottle tops for faces.

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Come and find out who these characters are and why.

Mr and Mrs Bottle Top

Images of people, a lady on the left and a man on the right. Both are free standing and have bottle tops for faces.

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Come and find out who these characters are and why.

Victoria County History Workshop Part 1 - Introductions, archaeology, and settlement

An old fashioned drawn map with of green on it and the words Somerleastowe.

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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…

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 For tickets…

Gelli Plate Printing

A printed pattern in green orange and black inspired by nature.

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About the Workshop Learn the tips and tricks of successful gelli plate printing. Over the course of this one-day workshop we will explore…

Victoria County History Workshop Part 2 – Exploring Buildings

A large timber framed 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…

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…

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…

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 glue during this…

Create a cosy cottage - Daisy Daisy

A small cottage on a wooden block with daisies around it.

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About the Workshop Spend the afternoon creating Daisy Daisy in your own choice of colours. You will sand, drill, paint and glue during…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…
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