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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 [...]
Rather belatedly, we’ve just received the official photo from the citizenship ceremony which took place at the Tower of London a couple of weeks ago. The photo features the 15 new British citizens standing outside the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers building in the Tower, alongside the Constable of the Tower of London General Lord Dannatt, [...]
Today a group of older people from the Positive Age Centre in Kensington came back to Kensington Palace to see their finished embroidery work on display in the ‘Victoria Revealed’ exhibition. Several groups embroidered flowers in muted tones at the end of 2011 and early 2012 for curtains in the room about Prince Albert’s death. [...]
A re-written and re-designed ‘New Citizen’s guide to Historic Royal Palaces’ has now been sent out to Register Offices in each of the boroughs in which we have palaces, which will reach 7,000 people over the coming year. Each new British citizen in Tower Hamlets, Richmond, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea will receive a copy [...]
I’ve come to the end of the SOCL trainee scheme and my time with the Education team at the Tower of London! It has been a privilege to work with a department so passionate about bringing the stories of the palaces to a range of education users. I look forward to hearing how Education at [...]
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 [...]
… 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 [...]
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 [...]