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12/May/2013, 19:25:
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May 2013 holiday activities at East Surrey Museum, for children with accompanying adults. |
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Wed. 29th & Thursday 30th May:
Make a Model Mammoth .... with tusks!
(Potter's clay and other materials supplied).
At the usual times of:
10.30am - 12.00 and 2pm - 3.30pm.
Booking is recommended - by telephone or email:
Tel.: 01883-340275
email: eastsurreymuseum@gmail.com
We are only 50m from Caterham Station and local bus stops!
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25/Apr/2013, 09:00:
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COFFEE MORNING - 25TH APRIL at 10.30 |
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Friends of ESM Spring Coffee Morning
Please join us at East Surrey Museum
for coffee & cakes on
Thursday April 25th from 10.30 am
ALL WELCOME |
01/Apr/2013, 15:12:
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Friends of East Surrey Museum Spring Newsletter |
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Friends of ESM Newsletter - Spring 2013 - is out by email today, if you get your copy by post hopefully you will have it by the end of the week. It includes a report, with photos, on our newly-refurbished Children's Room |
10/Mar/2013, 20:50:
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April 2013 Holiday Activities at East Surrey Museum |
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Wednesday 3rd & Thursday 4th April:
"Paint a papier-mache Easter Egg"
Wednesday 10th & Thursday 11th April:
"Make and decorate a Windmill"
& short demonstration of how wind-power generates electricity
Time:
10am - 12.00 and 2pm - 3.30pm on each of the above dates
Booking is recommended - by phone or email:
01883-340275 eastsurreymuseum@gmail.com
We are only 50m from Caterham Station and also have local buses stopping nearby so we are really easy to get to by public transport.
There are car parks near the museum if coming by car.
There is no charge for these activities but a donation towards museum funds is always appreciated.
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27/Jan/2013, 14:34:
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February Half Term Activities at East Surrey Museum |
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For for children with accompanying adults this half-term we are doing: "Make a Thaumatrope"
All materials are provided.
The times and dates of the sessions are:
Wednesday February 20th and Thursday February 21st, 10.30am - 12.00 & 2.00pm - 3.30pm.
Booking is recommended as we can get quite busy!
Please phone us on 01883-340275 OR
email: eastsurreymuseum@gmail.com
We are only 50m from Caterham Station and also have local buses stopping nearby so we are easy to get to by public transport.
There are car parks near the museum if coming by car.
A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times that makes you think you are seeing moving pictures. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to pieces of string or to a stick. When the strings or stick are twirled the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of our vision. The popular images to combine are those that put a bird in a cage - a picture of a cage and a picture of a bird - when you put the two pictures together as a thaumatrope the bird miraculously appears to be inside the cage! |
25/Jan/2013, 22:31:
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Closed for re-decoration |
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The Museum will be closed next week for redecoration and will re-open on Wednesday 6th February. |
06/Nov/2012, 18:00:
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Christmas 2012 Activities at East Surrey Museum |
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For our Christmas activities in December we shall be making traditional Christmas decorations and cards.
Activities run from 10.30am to 12.00 noon and 2pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th December and are open, as usual, to primary-age children with their accompanying adult.
There is no charge for these activities but a donation towards museum funds is always appreciated!
Please ring the Museum to book a place [spaces are limited]: 01883 340275
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29/Sep/2012, 15:45:
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Autumn 2012 Half Term Activities at East Surrey Museum |
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Autumn 2012 Half Term Activities at East Surrey Museum, for children with accompanying adults.
For this we are doing:-
" Colour exact replica copies of fossils! Autumn leaf prints/rubbings!"
All materials provided.
Times/dates:
Wednesday 31st October and Thursday 1st November, 10.30am - 12.00 & 2.00pm - 3.30pm.
Booking recommended.
Telephone: 01883-340275
email: eastsurreymuseum@gmail.com
Chris Taylor, Curator
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28/Jun/2012, 07:21:
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Summer 2012 Activities at East Surrey Museum |
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All activities run, as usual, from 10.30am to 12.00 and 2pm to 3.30pm, unless otherwise stated below.
Wednesday/Thursday 25/26th July - Make a Stone Age Pot!
Saturday 28th July - Talk by our expert on Caterham in WWII at 2pm
Wednesday/Thursday 1st/2nd August - Colour fossil stencils!
- Draw a fossil!
- Museum Trail (all day)
Wednesday/Thursday 8th/9th August - Make a Stone Age Pot!
- Talk by Curator on local Archaeology and Geology at 2pm.
Wednesday/Thursday 15/16th August - Colour fossil stencils!
Wednesday/Thursday 22nd/23rd August - Museum Trail - all day.
Saturday 25th August -Talk by our expert on Caterham in WWII at 2pm.
Wednesday/Thursday 29/30th August - Colour fossil stencils!
All materials are supplied. There is no charge but we would very much appreciate a donation towards Museum costs. |
19/May/2012, 18:36:
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June 2012 Half Term Activities |
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June 2012 Half Term Activities at East Surrey Museum, for children with accompanying adults.
For this June 2012 half-term we are doing: "Make a mosaic mask". All materials provided.
Times/dates are:
Wednesday June 6th and Thursday June 7th, 10.30am - 12.00 & 2.00pm - 3.30pm.
Booking recommended. |
13/Mar/2012, 20:16:
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Easter holiday activities for children with accompanying adults. |
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This Easter we are painting eggs and colouring Easter cards.
Decorating eggs and colouring Easter cards will take place on Wednesday and Thursday in the first two weeks of April at the usual times of 10:30am to 12noon and 2pm to 3:30pm. |
09/Jan/2012, 10:16:
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February 2012 Half Term Activities at East Surrey Museum for children with accompanying adults. |
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For this half-term we are doing: "Make and decorate a windmill" with a very short demonstration afterwards of how windpower is converted into electricity. All materials provided. \r\nTimes etc are: Wednesday February 15th and Thursday February 16th, 10.30am - 12.00 & 2.00pm - 3.30pm. \r\nBooking recommended. |
28/Nov/2011, 23:11:
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Christmas 2011 activities at the East Surrey Museum |
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21/22 December 2011 at 10.30am - 12.00 & 2.00 - 3.30pm on each day we will be running traditional activities "Make traditional Christmas paper chains and greetings cards."
These activities are for children with their accompanying adults.
Come and see the Christmas decorations and Victorian Christmas display too!
Please book a place by telephoning the Museum on 01883-340275. (Please note Museum is ionly open for calls on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.) |
21/Oct/2011, 21:55:
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October Half Term 2011 Activities |
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26/27 October, 2.00 - 3.30pm We will be running "Make a thaumatrope and Russion Dolls!" For children and their accompanying adults. Please 'phone to book a place: 01883-340275 |
15/Aug/2011, 14:10:
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Hidden Stories of East Surrey Wednesday 31st August 7-9pm |
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Come along and find out more about what we have been up to in the last year of our Heritage Lottery Funded Project. Wednesday 31st August 2011. 7-9pm. Come and share a glass of wine and view two new exhbiitions one concerning three local asylums Cane Hill, Netherne and St Lawrences and one about the History of Caterham Guards Barracks. |
12/Jul/2011, 08:48:
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Summer Holiday Activities 2011 |
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Free Summer Activities at East Surrey Museum
July
Thursday 21st July 11-12.30 or 1.30 to 3 Make a Mobile
Saturday 23rd July 1-3 Science Day Come along and make a bouncy ball and maybe extract some DNA!!!
Wednesday 27th July 11-12.30 or 1.30-3 Victorian Decoupage
Thursday 28th July 11-12.30 or 1.30-3 Make a Suncatcher
August
Saturday 6th August 10.30-12.30 or 2-4 Karl Lee the Flintknapper comes to ESM (discover the art of prehistoric tool making)
Wednesday 10th August 1-3 How to make a Stone Age Pot
Thursday 11th August 11-12.30 or 1.30-3 Treasure Trail Come along and make a treasure box and then search for gold.
Wednesday 17th August 1-3 How to make a Stone Age pot
Thursday 18th August 11-12.30 or 1.30-3 Victorian Decoupage
Saturday 20th August 1-3 Science Day
All these activities are free but please ring or email the Museum in advance to book on 01883 340275 or eastsurreymuseum@btconnect.com.
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28/Jul/2010, 08:16:
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Summer Holiday Activities |
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THE EAST SURREY MUSEUM
Summer Holiday Activities 2010
Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th July - Medieval tiles
Hands-on fun learning about and creating your own clay medieval style floor tile based on our collection. (age 4 upwards)
Saturday 7th August - Flintknapping
Come along any time between 10am-4pm to see Flintknapping demonstrations. Karl Lee will be demonstrating how stone age man made flint tools, using traditional techniques.
Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th August – Build a radio
Discover how early radio worked and have a go at building and listening to a crystal radio set. (age 8 upwards)
All activities are free of charge and work on a drop-in basis between 10am-4pm.
I hope to see you there!
Katy (curator)
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