Royston Museum

During July, we welcomed six students from King James Academy on work experience. Over the course of the week, the students discovered how we care for the Museum’s collection, including hands-on experience of photographing and cataloguing objects. They helped us prepare for the summer holidays and worked together to create their own mini-exhibition which is […]

Thank you to everyone who visited our Green Festival last month. Organised in partnership with Royston Environmental Group, we were joined by 7 other local organisations to explore how we can tackle climate change, protect nature and make little swaps for good. We also opened two new exhibitions last month including the ‘Our World’ Young

The start of June marks the countdown to two of our biggest events of this year! Our Green Festival on Saturday 14th June & Anglo-Saxon Day on Sunday 6th July. For our Green Festival we’ve teamed up with Royston Environmental Group and are welcoming a host of local groups and organisations to explore how we can

We’re gearing up for a busy May at Royston Museum, with a month jammed packed with events and activities for all ages to enjoy. We have all our usual monthly events, including Museum Babies and Museum Tots on Wednesday 7th May, Spark! Art Club on Thursday 8th May, and our next evening talk, This was

Monthly Update: From Emma – Museum Curator… Earlier this year, the Museum was awarded the Environmental Sustainability Award at the Hertfordshire Association of Museums’ annual awards. We’re thrilled to have been recognised for our work to become a more environmentally conscientious organisation. Three of our volunteers were also recognised as Heritage Heroes for their contributions

  Monthly Update: From Emma – Museum Curator… The Museum’s doors are now open again following our winter closure. I want to say a massive well done and thank you to Sophie, our Curator, the staff and the volunteers for their hard work on an incredible project to upgrade our Collections Stores. It has been

  February Update: From Emma – Museum Curator… Our year started with the installation of the new bespoke storage in our Collections Store and Art Store. Over two days, a small team transformed both rooms, leaving them barely recognisable compared to just a few weeks ago. Since then, Sophie and Francesca, our new Collections Assistant,

    Regular readers will know that Museum is closed over the winter whilst we upgrade our main Collections Store and smaller Art Store thanks to generous funding from the North Herts Prosperity Fund and the Brian Leslie Racher Trust. December has focused on clearing the stores and carrying out maintenance work. Over three days

    If you read my article in last month’s edition, then you’ll know I’ve been nervously waiting for the outcome of some funding applications. Well, I am thrilled to share that those applications have been successful.  Thanks to generous funding from the North Herts Prosperity Fund and the Brian Leslie Racher Trust we’re going

    As I write this month’s article, I’m nervously waiting for the outcome of a funding application we submitted back at the end of August. If we’re successful, then we’ll be undertaking an exciting project to upgrade the Museum’s two stores (rooms) which hold 95% of the collection not currently on public display! The

  At the start of September, I received an exciting email into my inbox. Sophie, Rhian and I are now all certified Carbon Literate! But what does this mean? Well, we’re taking responsibility for how our decisions affect the environment and are making conscientious changes to minimise our impact on the planet. You may have