Crawley Museum

We are celebrating #PancakeDay with this photograph of #Crawley #boxer Alan Minter and John Conteh, date and copyright unknown. #FromTheArchives #CrawleyMuseum

Don't forget, today's Crawley Museums talk is on Caroline Haslett and a history of Women in Engineering, by Professor Graeme Gooday and Dr Elizabeth Bruton at 2pm. Tickets are £2 for Crawley Museum members and £3 for non-members. #Crawley #Sussex #Museum #talk #CrawleyMuseum #Today

Join the Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) for an evening of performances at the Crawley Museum
The award-winning Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) is coming to Crawley for a special evening, where three of its exhibits about real people’s lives will be reimagined into “live” performances. MOOP is a Brighton-based pop-up museum that works with people who have collections of objects they’ve held onto – things like diaries, photos, documents, belongings, found items – that they h...ave an emotional connection to, and that they feel tell someone’s story. For Clair, it was a bag of diaries found at a car boot sale, their pages eerily paralleling her own life. Clair worked with MOOP to create “The Diaries of Mary Booth”, an exhibit for the Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) at the Brighton Fringe, which he has turned into one of the live performances you’ll see at MOOP: STORIES Crawley. At MOOP: STORIES, enjoy these powerful, original performances and find out more from participants Clair, Catherine and Clara about what it’s like to make a museum exhibit about a real person’s life.
MOOP STORIES: Crawley Thursday March 19th, 6.30pm-9pm Crawley Museum Free to attend - please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moop-stories -crawley-tickets-9… Voluntary donations via Eventbrite and on the evening Visit museumofordinarypeople.com
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Our next Crawley Museums talk is on Caroline Haslett and a history of Women in Engineering, by Professor Graeme Gooday and Dr Elizabeth Bruton on Tuesday 25th February at 2pm. Tickets are £2 for Crawley Museum members and £3 for non-members. #Crawley #Sussex #Museum #talk #CrawleyMuseum

The cabinet for our "Crawley's Collections Revealed" display has arrived! Are we excited? Oh yes!!!!

Our next exhibition will be on historical writing about Crawley. If you have memories of any authors who wrote about Crawley history that you'd like us to share in the exhibition please get in touch?

Due to Storm Ciara, we will be closed this Sunday 9th February 2020.
We will be open as usual on Wednesday 12th February 2020 at 10:30.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
... #StormCiara #Crawley #Sussex #Museum ☔🌨️😅
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Due to Storm Ciara, we will be closed this Sunday 9th February 2020.
We will be open as usual on Wednesday 12th February 2020 at 10:30.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
... #StormCiara #Crawley #Sussex #Museum ☔🌨️😟
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Due to Storm Ciara, we will be closed this Sunday 9th February 2020.
We will be open as usual on Wednesday 12th February 2020 at 10:30.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
... #StormCiara #Crawley #Sussex #Museum 🌨️☔😟
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Crawley's Collection Revealed:
Does anyone know what this is? This is a ceramic ball mill and was used to mill chemicals and minerals into fine powders. This one came from Pascall Engineering Company Limited right here in Crawley! Know more about how these were used or know someone who worked at Pascall? Let us know in the comments!

Looking forward to this event at the museum on March 19th. Click on the link to find out more and book your free place!

New exhibition now up! Our exhibition on animals features photos and memories from some of our lovely volunteers, as well as items from our collections. Runs until 23rd February!

Lovely day last Saturday at the Museum. We welcomed Lucy and Petra from LPK Learning CIC and lots of local families who identified mystery objects, told stories, shared memories and wrote labels for us. Part of our new #CrawleysCollectionsRevealed project (funded by Arts Council England). Once the new display case arrives we'll be putting their work out for everyone to see. Watch this space!!

We can now confirm the open days for Ifield Watermill during 2020. Please share and come along if you can. #Ifield #Crawley #Watermill #Museum #Heritage #Sussex

We have our Mystery at the Museum event today run with LPK Learning CIC. Are you coming? #Museum #Families #Sussex #Crawley