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Animation course available now!

Work with our animator to bring your own animal creations to life with our 4 week animation course. Booking now open! Read More

Collaborative Learning Event

How can we support your heritage and creative arts learning? Come along and explore our stories, artefacts and collections as we plan for the future. Share your ideas how we can develop the learning offers and outreach opportunities. Join the Learning team to learn how to use the artefacts and art to create your own exhibition. Influence the direction we take with our new outreach...Read More

Big Draw 2019

The Big Draw is back! Workshops on Tuesday 22nd October will take place at 10.30am, 11.30 am and 1.30pm – just sign up on the day. Read More

Opportunity to exhibit in the Usher Gallery from November 2019 to January 2020

For school and college groups wishing to participate in a creative arts workshop in October there will be the exclusive opportunity to have student work displayed in the Usher gallery in our Investigate Learning V & A themed exhibition. The workshops will focus on a range of art works and techniques in the exhibition. Participating schools will then be given the chance to...Read More

OPEM and schools learning offer

During OPEM we welcomed primary and secondary schools to create art work with the Artists in Residence. Here you can see Giles Academy students creating sculptures with Michael Shaw, Kesteven and Sleaford Girls High students learning from Ros Lorimer how to be an archaeological illustrator and pupils from Ermine Primary exploring Belen Cerezo’s studio space. Inspirational!...Read More

Thorfast the comb maker

In the Viking section of the museum of The Collection in Lincoln there is a reconstruction of a Viking comb maker’s workshop. The comb maker is called Thorfast by the museum staff, this is because in 1867 a comb case was found in Lincoln with a runic inscription on it that reads as “Thorfast made a good comb”. Work in progress! This case is now in the British...Read More

‘It IS Rocket Science’ workshops

STEM Ambassadors joined us for our exciting ‘It IS Rocket Science’ workshops last week. A fun (& wet!) time was had by all!! Read More

We’re excited as the Dinosaurs are coming this summer…

Dinosaurs poster Come face-to-face with your favourite dinosaurs in Dinosaur Encounter – a thrilling exhibition from London’s Natural History Museum. With fossil replicas, impressive dinosaur models and animatronics and even a roaring, snorting three-quarter size T-Rex, you’ll be transported back in time to when dinosaurs ruled the land. Read More

Archaeology Festival 2019

Join us across the sites for a fantastic and varied week of events from Tuesday 28th May. You will find something for all ages and interests. Download our leaflet to find out more. Advanced booking required for the Wednesday Archaeology Conference only. Read More

Creative arts learning linked to the Artists in residence

This May and June we are offering creative art workshops linked to othe work of our Artists in residence. We are excited that they will be with us on site. They are Michael Shaw – is a sculptor and curator of Burghley House Sculpture Garden. During his residency, he will aim to create a working studio that enables 3D printing, CNC paper cutting and drawing responses to collection...Read More