News and Events...

Easter Opening coming 1 April 2010.

Thursday 1 April 2010, the Museum will re-open for the Easter 2.00 to 5.00 pm, and then open Friday, Saturday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday. Saturday and Monday: 11.30 to 5.00.  We will have a new exhibition: The Churches of Clare: Living with Dissent, with panels on Clare Priory, Clare Parish Church, Clare Baptist Church, the United Reformed Church in Clare, and the Quakers (who no longer have a Meeting House in Clare). We will tell the stories of how dissent and non-conformity produced new denominations here in Clare. Our main season will begin Thursday April 29th.

 

Forthcoming event 12 May 2010, arranged by the Friends of Clare Ancient House Museum:

 Wednesday 12 May 2010, 7 pm for 7.30 pm :  'Ruby and her Horses'. Neil Lanham, drawing on stories told him by his mother Ruby, as well as her own photographs, will team up with the East Suffolk singer Andrew Stannard to provide a great evening's entertainment that evokes Suffolk from just before the Great War through the Great Depression. Neil Lanham, a champion of the spoken word, used to auction furniture in Clare Town Hall.  His mother Ruby was born in Bures, and Neil lives in Helions Bumpstead. This will be the final opportunity to see the programme in West Suffolk before Neil moves to the east. 

Tickets will cost £7.00 and be available from Hudgie's, 3 High Street, Clare from about 1 April 2010. There will be a licensed bar at the event.

For further information, phone 01440 820095

 

Modern replicas of terminals from the Ipswich torcs. Torcs were collars of twisted wire with decorated, hollow terminals fixed to the ends. They were made in both bronze and precious metals. The latter were probably symbols of power and status. Originals (now in the British Museum) date around 75BC and were cast using the lost-wax process.



Bow Brooch 'Aucissa'.
Developed in Gaul, this type of brooch arrived in Britain with the Roman conquerors in 43 AD and was in fashion for about 40 years.