Museum focusing on the natural & cultural heritage of Chatteris & the surrounding Fenland villages. Now open Thursdays 2-4pm, Fridays 10am-1pm & Saturdays 2-4pm
Chatteris, England
Joined July 2017
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🎅🏻Father Christmas has arrived!!🎅🏻
Come visit from 3.30pm until 6pm
There is no need to book. Entrance will be through the museum's rear gates only
Tickets are £3 per child. Any profits will be donated to Chatteris Christmas Lights Fund and The Chatteris Museum Trust
🎄Our wonderful volunteers have decorated a tree for the Chatteris Parish Church Christmas Tree Festival!
Drop by the Church on switch on night, 4-7pm to see all the beautiful trees decorated by local community groups. They’ll also have music performances & hot drinks available!
Feeling the chill?🥶
Chatty Mouse has a hand-knitted hat lovingly made by our volunteer elves. Come & buy yours during our opening hours & support your award-winning Museum!
Don’t forget this Saturday to coincide with the Christmas Lights switch on the museum will be open 2-6pm
🌟Just 1 week until the Chatteris Christmas Lights Switch On!🌟
🎅🏻Father Christmas will be at Chatteris Museum to greet children 3.30-6pm
No need to book
Entrance through the museum's rear gates only
Tickets are £3 per child
Reminder: We’re offering a limited number of quiet slots between 2pm and 2.45pm.
These quiet slots must be pre-booked by Mon 25 Nov by emailing the museum at [email protected] with numbers attending & we’ll contact you with a timed slot. £3 fee payable on the day.
👾Who had a computer or video game on their Christmas wish list back in the 1980s?📝
Now on display are some recent acquisitions including a Commodore 64 & an Acetronic video game system!🕹️
Come check them out - we are open:
Thurs 2-4pm
Fri 10am-1pm
Sat 2-4pm
#ChatterisMuseum #NewItems #Computers #VideoGames #Commodore64 #Acetronic #VIC20 #1980s #ChristmasList #RetroGaming #Nostalgia
🎅🏻The museum is pleased to host a visit by Father Christmas to coincide with the switch on of Chatteris Christmas Lights on Sat 30 Nov🎅🏻
Father Christmas will be in place to greet children from 3.30pm-6pm. No need to book. Entrance will be through the museum's rear gates only.
Tickets are £3 per child. Any profits will be donated to Chatteris Christmas Lights Fund & The Chatteris Museum Trust.
We’re offering a limited number of slots at 2pm-2.45pm for children who may benefit from a quieter time to say 'Hello' to Father Christmas.
These must be pre-booked by emailing [email protected] with numbers attending by Mon 25 Nov & we’ll contact you with a timed slot
🎄We’re all set up ready for the Chatteris Parish Church Christmas Craft & Food Fair!🎄
Come see us 9:30am-2pm tomorrow & browse some lovely festive items crafted by our talented volunteers!
Travellers in Time: We're on Film!🎬
If you've been in to see our Gypsy & Traveller Histories display (on until 1 Dec) we hope you picked up the catalogue (still a few left!) & explored the link to our YouTube channel, where wagon painter Joe gives us a taster of his work
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If you haven't, please visit, like & subscribe youtube.com/watch?v=VHScPHtw… & watch out for some exciting news about what we'll be doing next!
#ChatterisGRT #TravellerCulture #OneVoice4Travellers #NSNA #MWTM #MinuteWithTheMuseum #WagonPainting
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🎄Come see us THIS SATURDAY, 9:30am-2pm at Chatteris Parish Church Christmas Craft & Food Fair!
Our fantastic volunteers have been working hard crafting some lovely items, so why not swing by our stall for your Christmas gifts & help support us in raising funds for the museum
Travellers in Time: Looking for the Brinkleys
Thanks to @FoodMuseumUK we found another photo taken on Chatteris Fen in 1911 by Fred Shaw, now in the @LivUniSCA [sca-archives.liverpool.ac.uk…]
‘Wife and children of Isiah Brinkley’
#ChatterisGRT #TravellerCulture #OneVoice4Travellers
The 1911 census has Jonathan Brinkley, 71 ‘travelling hawker’ living in a ‘caravan and open tent’ on Turf Fen with wife Lydia, part of a small group of travellers inc Naomi Webb & Joseph & Emma Thompson, but no sign of Isiah’s family in the record.
Shaw's 'Thompsons on Chatteris Fen' image used in this post by kind permission of the @LivUniSCA Archive
#ChatterisGRT #NewExhibition #TravellerCulture #OneVoice4Travellers #NSNA #FoodMuseum #LivUniSCA #LiverpoolSpecialCollectionsandArchives
Come take a look at our latest exhibitions:
🌹To mark Remembrance, we have various items from our archives including recovered items from the crash site of ED715, a Lancaster bomber that crashed in New Road in May 1943.
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🍂Embark on a thought-provoking journey through Chatteris’ dark histories & artefacts & explore our accompanying digital tour online too!
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💐Celebrate the rich Traveller heritage in Chatteris & the surrounding area with our Chatteris GRT exhibition, created in partnership with One Voice 4 Travellers thanks to support from @Aimuseums @HeritageFundUK
We are open:
Thursdays 2-4pm
Fridays 10am-1pm
Saturdays 2-4pm
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