Archive for September, 2011
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Children with iPads, QR codes and a man in a green suit at the Tower of London! It’s the start of Palace Explorers at the Tower! And during the next six months both Education and Outreach & Community Involvement teams will be working with students from local primary schools in Tower Hamlets, and their parents, [...]
This weekend we are putting on some fantastic activities at Hampton Court Palace as part of the Big Draw campaign. The Big Draw is a national campaign that has one aim – to get everyone drawing! This year we’re asking: “Have you got what it takes to become a Tudor portrait artist?” Join us in [...]
There have been prisoners at the Tower almost since it was built. For nearly 900 years, traitors, kings, queens, saints and sinners have been held here against their will. You can now find out about five of these prisoners in a new animation series. Creatively illustrated and animated by students from Kingston University, for the [...]
Our new pop-up banners telling the story of the Koh-i-Nur diamond have just arrived! The banners will be taken to lots of local libraries and community venues over the next few months. The Koh-i-Nur is a huge diamond which sits in the front of the Queen Mother’s crown in the Jewel House at the Tower [...]
In 1953, workers renovating rooms for Yeoman Warder lodgings in the Byward Tower stripped out a Victorian hearth to reveal a decorated Tudor fireplace. A restorer took a closer look at the medieval wall behind it and discovered an astonishing 14th century mural painting under seven layers of limewash. With a love of art an [...]
Today Year 1 from St Mary Abbot’s Primary and members of the Jigsaw Club (West London action for children) helped our gardeners sow the seeds of a wild flower meadow on the south side of the palace. Each child was given a handful of seeds and under the instruction of HRP’s head gardener Graham Dillamore, [...]
This Saturday we welcomed 80 participants to experience the transformation of Kensington Palace first hand as part of the Open House weekend. We led 4 tours of 20 people each time, starting with a short introduction and talk about the history of the project then more detail about the development of the our £12m Kensington Project After [...]
You can see photos of Natalie’s work in the studio by following this link to our HRP Flickr site Hope you like them.
Hello, I went to Natalie Ryde’s studio yesterday at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn (where she works part time) and it was really exicting to see how her final commission pieces are coming along! She’s been experimenting with printing the patterns collected at the palace and from the wallpaper fragments onto different materials and the results are a brilliant mix [...]
Hello, last Tuesday 6th August, we held a professional development workshop for members of the education team. The aim was to learn some new printing skills from Natalie Ryde our Artist in Residence at Kensington so we could introduce them into our sessions and workshops across sites. It was great fun and we were all really [...]