The Oxfordshire Museum Service
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The Oxfordshire Museum Service (OMS) cares for and makes accessible the county’s Museum collection across the four sites of The Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, Bishops Palace in Witney, Swalcliffe Barn near Banbury and the Museum Resource Centre.
Here with an awesome little #FindsFriday Our FLO first thought this might be Iron Age as this is a very typical haircut seen for that period. However the parallels found for it are more Medieval in date. Read the record and its reference to let us know what you think! OXON-81B858
Curiosity Club sessions held fortnightly Wednesdays from 14.30. Participants like ‘being with other people, lovely friends and activities and not being alone’. Why not reach out to someone this World Mental Health Day and suggest they try Curiosity Club. #worldmentalhealthday #loneliness #friends
Before anything reaches the museum store, excavations take place as part of the planning process. Once the digging is done, the specialists have worked their magic, the archives come to us. Our job? To care for them in perpetuity and make them accessible to everyone.
It's 220 years since the funeral of Lord Nelson in 1806. This wooden toy consists of 58 blocks that when lined up in the correct order depict the funeral procession of Lord Nelson from The Admiralty, to St Paul's Cathedral. The paper images are based on a print by John Wallis, from March 1806.
Spotted by Valerie during her work experience this Victorian medicine cabinet contains a variety of potions offering potential remedies. It is typical of what might have been found in a middle class home during the period. For further information visit www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshire-museum.
