Talks Programme
Most lectures are held at the Museum. Entrance is by ticket and BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL as there are only seventy seats. Tickets are free for Friends. Non-members are also welcome at a cost of £3.
Both Friends and guests must acquire tickets from the Visitor Information Centre –
In person or by
Phone: 01743 258888
Email: visitorinfo@shropshire.gov.uk
Mail: VIC, Music Hall, Market St, Shrewsbury SY1 1LH
(please enclose a SAE and make out cheques to Shropshire County Council).
Forthcoming talks – new programme for 2018-19 will be published as soon as it is available.
Members will be informed of any changes to this programme by email, notices on this website, and on our information board at the museum.
Archive of past talks, 2016 – 2018
* Related to a Museum exhibition; +Museum organised event.
April 2018: Visit to Flaxmill, Ditherington and talk by Alan Mosley and Joanna Layton
March 2018: A Marvellous Creation – the Work of the Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor Pippa Shirley, Head of Collections, at Waddesdon –
January 2018: The Darwin Farms and the vital role of Shrewsbury’s John Higgins, by Prof. Peter Worsley, Reading University.
November 17: Chasing the Shadows and Hiding in the Light, by Andy Mckeown.
May 2017: Making the Most of 3D Digitisation in Museums, by James Grimster (Orange Leaf Systems).
March 2017: William Hazeldine -Ironmaster Extraordinary, by Andrew Pattison.
January 2017: New Discoveries at the Iron Bridge, by David de Haan.
November 2016: Temples, Tombs and Treasure – Archaeology in Ethiopia, by Louise Schofield
*November 2016: David Evans of Shrewsbury and the Revival of Gothic Stained Glass, by Martin Crampin
+*November 2016: An Introduction to Caughley Porcelain, by Emma-Kate Lanyon, Maurice Wright and David Waterhouse.
*October 2016: Margaret Rope and the Women of The Arts & Crafts Movement, by Sally Hoban
September 2016: To Celebrate a Hero – How Shropshire Honoured Rowland Hill, by Richard Hayes.
May 2016: Churches of Shropshire, by Andrew Pike.
April 2016: The History of the Drapers’ Company in Shrewsbury, by Nigel Hinton.
*March 2016: Beyond Valhalla, by Thor Ewing.
January 2016. ‘English Landscape and Topographical Tradition in Art’ by Anthony Vettise.
