Rumble Museum takes over two Broad Street windows!

We now have a shop window display at 8 Broad Street, Oxford.

The first window showcases some of the museum's replica artefacts from the Minoan Civilisation, people who thrived on the island of Crete and surrounding areas in the second millennium BC. There is a replica snake goddess, Phaistos Disk and sistron, and the centrepiece is a mosaic featuring a Minoan woman gathering saffron, made by visitors and students at a community festival, under the guidance of local mosaicist Clare Goodall. The second window exhibits the many nature projects the Rumble Museum organises, and includes dragonflies designed by St Andrew's Primary School and Bayards Hill Primary School, mosaics of two moths found in a student survey of moths on site at Cheney, and tree trunks from an Indian Bean tree which had to be cut down. It also includes a model of a tree made by Year 12 art student Felix Spier.

The displays provide an opportunity to show some of the exciting and wide-ranging projects the museum runs at Cheney and with the local community, and a chance to show some of the very large collection of original and replica items at the school. 

The display will be in the windows for the next two months and maybe longer, depending on when the shop unit is sold. 

Do go and check it out over half-term at 8 Broad Street, Oxford.

There is a Minoan-themed Creative Writing Cafe Saturday 21st February, 2:30-4:30pm, with Dr Efi Spentzou from Myth and Voice to explore the Minoans at St. Alban’s Church Hall, Charles Street, Oxford. The cafe runs every fortnight from 21st February, with a different theme each time. For more information visit: https://rumblemuseum.org.uk/index.php/what-s-on