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Event
- Title:
- Cityscapes – Summer University
- When:
- 04.08.2009 - 07.08.2009 10.00 h - 15.00 h
- Where:
- The Cuming Museum, Old Town Hall - Southwark
- Category:
- Kids
Description
Explore the diversity of Southwark's built environment! You will learn how your local area has changed and adapted over the course of time. Using a variety of media you will explore aspects such as fantasy cities, architecture, markets, green spaces and the global city. Your artwork could feature in the Mix FestivalA fine art workshop with artist Jane Millar. Produce a variety of fine art pieces inspired by the local built environment and The Cuming Museum’s ‘Lost Southwark’ exhibition. Suitable for 10-19 year olds.
This course is free but places are limited, to book see www.summerunilondon.org.
There are bus stops immediately outside the building. We are the first stop after the Elephant and Castle shopping centre.
Venue
- Venue:
- The Cuming Museum, Old Town Hall - Website
- Street:
- 151 Walworth Road
- Postcode:
- SE17 1RY
- City:
- Southwark
- Area/Borough:
- London
- Country:
- UK
Description
Henry Syer Cuming left the collection amassed by himself and his father Richard to the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark when he died in 1902. His will stated "My museum illustrative of natural history, archaeology and ethnology with my coins and medals and along with all other curios" be exhibited in "a suitable and spacious gallery or apartments in connection with Newington Public Library."
The museum was to be known as the Cuming Museum and he left a sum of money to employ a curator. The museum was opened in 1906 by Lord Rothschild.
Phone: 020 7525 2332
Open: Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10am to 5pm. Admission is free.
Rail and tube: Elephant and Castle or Kennington
Buses: 12, 35, 40, 45, 68, 148, 171, 176, P5, 343, 468
The museum is fully wheelchair accessible.
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