Registered charity no 1129346 Supported by the Big Lottery Fund and Bucks Community Foundation
2011 AGM Reminder: 7.30pm Thursday 24th June, Liston Hall Current Special Exhibition
Coming Soon: An exciting new exhibition "The Marlow Donkey - our railway" |
Opening Hoursthe marlow museum (Opposite the Main Entrance to Court Garden Leisure Centre, Pound Lane , Marlow) is open Saturday, Sunday & Bank Holidays 1 pm to 5 pm Other times by arrangement *NOTE* From November to February, our Winter opening hours
ADMISSION FREE |
News from the Museum - Aug 2010
The number of visitors since May last year has topped 3,500, thanks to Pamela Nottingham’s recent Marlow Lace exhibition and the current Little Marlow - From Manor to Millennium exhibition by Barbara Wallis and Gloria Barclay (open 1 to 5 at weekends until mid-September), and the dedication of our 27 volunteer stewards. Both exhibitions being given a professional gloss by our curator, Philip Kersey. Recent acquisitions include a hard copy of the 1851 Census, two embroidered post cards and two embroidered handkerchiefs brought or sent home from France in WW 1, two coffee cups marked, "Crown Hotel Marlow Bucks", several fossil sea urchins, eight trophy cups and two shields from Marlow Ladies Darts League, and a montage of twenty Marlow tradesmen’s bills dated between 1931 and 1936.
At the AGM in June it was agreed to pursue an extension of our present lease if a larger suitable premises cannot be found.
A premises at last!
After fifteen years of searching for a premises, and being priced out of several, the Project has taken on an affordable lease of a building in by Wycombe District Council. (The building was previously called ‘The Peacock Room’ after Thomas Love Peacock, poet, author and friend of Shelley, who lived at 47 West St, Marlow.) The Room is a free-standing, single storey, ground floor building with walls of brick and glass. It is situated in a very busy position in Higginson Park, between the Pound Lane Car Park and the main entrance to Court Garden Leisure Centre, and is linked to the latter by a roofed walkway (See map below) The lease is for two years from 1st April 2009.
More information
If you wish to join, donate or learn more, please phone the Chairman John Evans on 01628 483711, write to him at 35 Spinfield Park, Marlow, SL7 2DD, or use the contact form.
