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Whittlesey Museum

Whittlesey, Coates, Eastrea, Pondersbridge and Turves from prehistoric times to the modern day.

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Town Hall
Market Street
Whittlesey,
PE7 1BD
whittleseymuseum@gmail.com

07706 132437

Friday 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Saturday 10am - 12pm
Sunday 2.30pm - 4.30pm

Whittlesey Museum News

Museum After Dark October 30, 2017
The clocks changing was celebrated with our first Museum After Dark event, in which families with school aged children explored the museum by torchlight searching for spooky objects from the past. Our new exhibition area was also open, showing the temporary exhibition "Witch Hunt" about the witchfinder Matthew Hopkins.
999 Emergency! July 31, 2017
The museum held a "999 Emergency" event for preschoolers and primary aged children to tie in with the current Response and Rescue exhibition. Activities included playdoh challenges, dressing up, toy cars and a teddy bear's hospital area as well as mask making, fire mark design and a quiz for the older children.
New Museum Quiz March 22, 2017
Whittlesey Museum has a new quiz for children.The quiz has been written by Amy, the 12 year old grand-daughter of regular museum volunteer Sandra.Amy lives in Wisbech but says that she has "come to love Whittlesey Museum through visiting my grandparents".Amy's quiz has ten questions about items on display in the museum.

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The Three Bears of Whittlesey with their handlers in Whittlesey Museum yard, just before going to do the final dance of the day at the 40th anniversary Straw Bear Festival In 2019. #strawbear #whittleseymuseum

The three Bears of Whittlesey - Grandad Bear (Brian Kell, who resurrected the tradition in 1979) and his son and grandson the Big Bear and Little Bear. #strawbear

19th January 2029 - the 40th anniversary Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival

Two printers plates for the original 1909 images of the Straw Bear, recently passed on to Whittlesey Museum by the Folklore Society. #strawbear

A detail from a print by local artist Sue Shields, imagining a meeting between the Fenland Black Shuck and the Whittlesey Straw Bear. #tracingtraditions #blackshuck #strawbear

A flock of lapwings feasting in a field at the junction between the A605 and the March-Wisbech road east of Whittlesey. Huge flocks of lapwing used to live in this area but they are less frequent now.

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