March 2011
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New Blog!
The education and community outreach teams at Historic Royal Palaces have a new blog! So from now on please visit http://learningblog.hrp.org.uk/ for news and updates about our services.
Hope to see you there!
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Take One Building...the work is in!
I’m delighted to let you know that we have now received all our project work for Take One, and are currently in the process of putting together our exhibition. A total of 11 schools from the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lewisham and Hackney have taken part, with over 550 children visiting the Tower for a bespoke workshop based on the Beauchamp Tower.
The quality of the...
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Works of industry of all nations: Albert and the...
Lecture with Adam Hart-Davis
Date: Wednesday 6 April Time: 6.30pm - 8pm Cost: £12 / £10 HRP members
Opened on 1 May 1851 by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the Great Exhibition was an extravaganza of technological talent. Albert was the figurehead and chief promoter of this great spectacle, built a stone’s throw away from Kensington Palace to celebrate the great advances of the British...
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Handel at Kensington
Talk and Workshop With musicians from the Saltarello Ensemble
Date: Saturday 2 April Time: 2 - 5pm Cost: £28 / £25 HRP members
“Handel’s oratorios thrive abundantly — for my part, they give me an idea of heaven, where everybody is to sing whether they have voices or not” Horace Walpole
In this workshop, the members of the Saltarello Ensemble will bring the sounds of George Frideric Handel’s...
Strange beasts and curious cabinets
This February half-term we ran 9 days of Family Learning activities in the Enchanted Palace at Kensington. Children and adults worked together to make their own cabinets of curiosities, inspired by the strange and wonderful things Kings, Queens, Princesses and Dukes used to collect. We also had giant squid, fantastical jewels, a double-headed monkey and gorgeous gold garments created to go in...
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Artist in Residence opportunity at Kensington
Exciting things are happening at Kensington!
We’d like a graphic designer, printmaker, illustrator or textile artist to undertake a residency with the Access and Learning team at Kensington this summer.
Kensington Palace is being transformed. Work is underway to create new spaces, places and narrative routes as part of a £12 million renovation project to bring the amazing characters and...
Congratulations to all new Palace Explorers!
On Saturday 26th February, 20 children from the Palace Explorers project were invited to tell their stories in Kensington Palace to their friends and families. The children worked hard to become ‘Palace Explorers’, discovering and writing stories about Kensington Palace and its inhabitants.
The book keeper managed to make an appearance, congratulating everyone and handing out...