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Building Blocks - Be a Traditional Builder
5 & 6 June

How were our houses and barns built?

Get your hands dirty as you learn how to lay a brick, find out what wytchert is and how to build with this uniquely local building material. You can also try your hand at putting together a model timber frame barn.

Normal Museum admission prices apply.

In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors.

 

Medieval Cooking and Weaponry
Pelican in her Piety
12 & 13 June

Visit the medieval camp and find out what the ladies are making for their medieval midday meal. Working hard over the fire, they recreate menus from the Middle Ages such as 'Urchins', 'Frumenteye' and 'Perre'. Join the encampment and learn about other daily crafts and tasks in the Medieval period.

You might also be lucky enough to feel the weight of plate armour, try on a helmet and then be amazed and appalled at the savagery of medieval warfare! Men-at-Arms will talk about their armour and put it to the test as they clash in bouts of head-to-head combat. You will see for yourself the amazing power of the English Warbow at archery practice and hear gruesome tales of the war against the French.

Arming a Knight - 12.00 pm & 3.00 pm
'Archery Through the Ages with a focus on the 100 Year War' - 2.00 pm

www.pelican-in-her-piety.co.uk

Normal Museum admission prices apply.

In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors.

 

 

Traditional Toys and Games
19 June
Come and Play! Make your own Tudor, Victorian and 1940s toys. Then play with our period toys and games.

Normal Museum admission prices apply.

In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors.

 

Heavy Horse Show
20 June

A host of working horses from the Hertfordshire Heavy Horse Association visit the Museum today to demonstrate the essential role of heavy horses in the traditional rural landscape.

Meet the Shires, Clydesdales, Suffolk Punches and other heavy horse breeds at this spectacular show. These beautiful horses will be shown at their best in the arena events and they will also demonstrate some of their traditional farm work from pulling wagons and ploughs to cutting our hay around the site.

Arena Events
12.00 pm and 3.00 pm

In association with the Hertfordshire Heavy Horse Association (www.hhha.co.uk)

Displays and demonstrations are subject to the weather and as such may be liable to change.

Normal Museum admission prices apply.

In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors.

Building Blocks - Be a Traditional Builder
26 & 27 June
How were our houses and barns built?

Get your hands dirty as you learn how to lay a brick, find out what wytchert is and how to build with this uniquely local building material. You can also try your hand at putting together a model timber frame barn.

Normal Museum admission prices apply.

In addition, all the Museum's buildings will be open to visitors.

 
   

 


June - Living History Re-enactments, Demonstrations and Hands-on Activities for all the Family