Archive for March, 2012
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Kensington Palace re-opened this week after a £12m development project. We have an exciting new schools programme, including new sessions for KS1-2 students. Bring your class to explore all the curious tales of this really royal palace. We’re delighted to announce that admission is FREE for under 16s! Victorian history sessions Queen Victoria was born [...]
Thanks to a generous donation by the Clore Duffield Foundation, Kensington Palace has a beautiful new learning centre in what was once an old apartment at the front of the palace. With views of the gardens, looking out on to the famous Golden Gates and the statue of the King who built the Palace, William [...]
Victoria puppets by Alexandra and Evelyn Dash the dog, Victoria and Albert puppet making, newly crowned kings and queens and a quiz about Queen Victoria…the perfect Saturday! It was the first day of our Victoriana family learning activities this easter at Kensington Palace. We were very excited to be able to offer activities in our new [...]
Today a community group (from the Abbey Centre in Westminster) took part in a stained glass making workshop with the artist Tom Bernecut, to create parts for a special chandelier for the summer exhibition at Kensington Palace ‘Jubilee – a view from the crowd’. The particiapnts went around the new ‘Victoria Revealed’ exhibition and heard [...]
… you’re not in year 3 at St John the Baptist Junior School in Teddington. Hampton Court’s partner school has been working on a maths project at the palace looking for different shapes in the Tudor and Baroque buildings, studying their properties and ultimately designing a tessellating pattern to decorate Henry VIII’s floor in the Great [...]
The ‘All the King’s Fools’ project, a partnership between the Misfits Theatre Company, Foolscap Productions, The University of East Anglia, The Arts Council, The Wellcome Trust, Past Pleasures and Historic Royal Palaces (phew!), has been shortlisted for the 2012 Museums and Heritage Awards under the ‘Education Initiative’ category. The winner will be announced at the [...]
Today we started making metal flowers for a large crown to go on the top of a Maypole which will be used at our summer dance event ‘The Kensington Palace Party’. This year’s event (7 and 8 July) will feature popular dances from the two Diamond Jubilee queens, including country dancing, the Polka, rock and roll and [...]
These beautiful cushions were made by 17 prisoners in four different prisons, working with the charity Fine Cell Work. The cushions are featured in the new ‘Victoria Revealed’ exhibition at Kensington Palace and each one consists of 11,000 stitches! Fine Cell Work organises needlework projects in prisons, teaching prisoners new skills, as well as patience and commitment. We made information packs [...]
In 2009 we made six wall hangings for the Privy Kitchen Coffee Shop at Hampton Court. Made by community groups of all ages with the artist Sofie Layton, they were inspired by Henry VIII and Tudor food and drink; they feature screen printing on silk, embroidery and embossed copper. However, after three years they were [...]
Historic Royal Palaces are improving the way we use digital and mobile technology – from smartphone applications (apps) and QR codes to games, stories and visitor information on our website we want to know how you use digital and mobile technology so we can improve your experiences with us. Each completed entry will be entered [...]