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Behind the Scenes at Bailiffgate
Our museum blog below features updates and stories about the work of Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery. This includes both activities in the museum itself and our community projects. These my involve working with a particular street or area to gather personal stories and facts about the community. They may also involve creating a database on a particular topic. Our well-used World War One database on our bailiffgate collections website is a good example of this.
Generally a blog has been written by one of our volunteers, so that you can gain a real-life picture of what it is like to do volunteer work at Bailiffgate.
The birth of our new Bailiffgate Mice
Our history mice have been knitted by one of the museum’s Friends . She said she could knit one each night but didn’t want to sew them up, nor did she want to dress them ! So that became my job . Sewing up wasn’t too difficult, and I did them in groups of five […]
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Volunteering in the New Reality
Bailiffgate Volunteers have kept the Museum going throughout lockdown and have demonstrated very clearly that heritage and culture are so important to people, no matter what is happening in the world. We have been delighted that local people, as well as national and international visitors to our Collections website have found articles, pictures and stories […]
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NHS Scrubs for Superheroes
Scrubs for Superheros NHS staff at the Alnwick Medical Group have taken a fresh delivery of scrubs, washbags and face masks made by the Sewing B’s of Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery. Using donated materials, a small team of volunteers have turned their hand to making washable, comfortable, stylish scrubs for local health care professionals. Each […]
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Viking competition 2020 Entries
See our 2020 Viking Competition Entries Online Nearly 500 school children took part this year in the annual Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery Art competition. If this had been a normal year, the paintings and drawings of the 10 winners would have been framed and hung in Bailiffgate and every entrant’s illustration projected on the big […]
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The White Canons of Alnwick
Latest book by Peter Carter now on sale. Who were the White Canons? Why did 388 years of hospitality and aid to the destitute come to an end? And what had Simon de Montefort’s foot got to do with it? These and many more questions are answered in local author Peter Carter’s latest book, now […]
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Vikings appeal smashes its target
Bailiffgate’s special appeal for funds to upgrade their CCTV and security systems has met its target of £6400 after less than 5 weeks since it launched. Donations from local residents and supporters of the museum and gallery together with successful applications for grants mean that Bailiffgate’s big summer exhibition Vikings Fact & Fiction, a unique partnership […]
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A Very Special Lecturn
Bailiffgate was delighted to welcome a visitor with a close personal connection to one of the prize exhibits in the museum’s collection. Margaret Blackwell is the niece of Arthur Shelford, whose death is commemorated with the Mouseman oak lectern. She travelled from Cheshire to see the memorial to her uncle, Alnwick born and bred, who […]
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What a great trip!
A Night of Glamour at the Museum Usually Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery is closed on Mondays. But last Thursday, 34 members of the Ellington Ladies Club visited for a special guided tour of 100 Years of Fashion. Hilary Waugh, lead curator of the exhibition, brought the vintage and designer dresses to life with fascinating tales from behind the […]
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The Missing Creation from “100 Years of Fashion”
One of the stunning hand-created dresses in the current “100 Years of Fashion” exhibition at Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery is temporarily missing, for a very good reason. In February 2019 the outstanding designer Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of Chanel from 1983 sadly died. The fashion world has been planning a special memorial celebration for some […]
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