Archive for May, 2012
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The Crown Jewels are often the very first things which come to mind when people think of the Tower of London. These amazing objects, so valuable not just in terms of money but also history, capture people’s imaginations. Listen to our new podcast series about ‘Memories of the Crown Jewels and Coronation’. Dr David Souden in [...]
On Saturday and Sunday, people got the chance to get ‘hands on’ with history at our annual Archaeology Weekend at the Tower of London. Taking place in May for the first time (to avoid clashing with the Olympics in its usual late July date!), hundreds of people went down onto the river foreshore to see [...]
We have developed a new interactive comic game for children, inspired by Princess Victoria’s upbringing at Kensington Palace. The story references her personal diary entries and gives insights into her daily life and people close to her. It’s 1833 and Princess Victoria is growing up under strict rules at Kensington Palace. Princess Victoria is 14 [...]
We’ve been working on some family learning character bags for families to use when exploring the temporary exhibition ‘Jubilee – a view from the crowd’, opening tomorrow. We’ve created 5 bags each with their own character of someone who might have been in the crowd on the day of Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee procession, that June [...]
What do all these things have in common? Earlier this month, 15 enthusiastic young people from Prendergast-ladywells College participated in a once-in-a-lifetime experience to creatively engage with the Tower of London. As part of the 2012 UNESCO World Heritage Youth summit which will be held at the Maritime Museum in Greenwich – young people were [...]
We had a very creative morning at Kensington today at our first children’s bookable fashion illustration workshop. 17 children took part in a workshop led by fashion illustrator Stuart McKenzie. They learnt some of the key skills needed for illustrating figures and costume. They then went into the palace and collected ideas in their sketchbooks from the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection on display. [...]
We are really pleased to announce that All the King’s Fools project which took place at Hampton Court Palace in October 2011 in partnership with the Misfits company of actors, won the education category in last night’s Museum and Heritage Awards. Massive congratulations to all the actors and everyone involved – hurray!!
For the last seven weeks two groups of students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US have been working at the Tower. One group has worked to understand how our visitors use digital media and devices such as smart phones and iPads to see how we might use Apps and other digital technology in exhibitions [...]
Last night team members of the White Tower Conservation Project, HRP’s three year project to clean and conserve the Norman keep at the Tower of London, attended the prestigious Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Awards at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. These awards are designed to celebrate the highest standards of excellence in the built [...]