February 2008

Family History Day

Central Library, North Hill
Saturday 2 February, drop in anytime between 10am and 3.30pm

Help and advice on researching your family history, including tracing adopted relatives.

Staff from Libraries and the Record Office, plus volunteers from the Devon Family History Society and the Church of Latter-day Saints will be available to help with websites, indexes, parish records, newspapers and cuttings, census records and other family history resources.

Guest speaker: Hedley Sutton from the British library talking about Anglo-Indian ancestry.

Read more about Family History Day or email localstudies@plymouth.gov.uk.

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The Imaginators

Central Library, North Hill
5, 6, 19, 20, 26 and 27 February, 10am to 11am

Run by the Museum, these fun, free sessions are aimed specifically at the under fives and their carers and include creative activities, games, songs and stories based on our collections and exhibitions.

Places are limited so advance booking is essential. Please telephone 01752 304665 or email us to reserve your place(s) and for more information.

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Historic Houses - Spring/Summer 2008 Opening

Elizabethan House, 32 New Street, The Barbican
Merchant's House, 33 St Andrew Street
Tuesday 12 February to Saturday 27 September

Two of the city's most historic properties open for the spring/summer 2008 season, earlier than usual, on Tuesday 12 February. For admission prices, opening hours and special event information visit our Museums pages.

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Museum Goes to Town: Free Half Term Workshops

Plymouth Guildhall, Royal Parade
Friday 15 February
10.30am to 12 noon (last entries 11.45am) and 1.30pm to 3pm (last entries at 2.45pm)

A day of family friendly workshops featuring exciting treasures from and activities based on our collections, including rocks and bones from our natural history collection, weapons from our human history collection, fashion from our human history collection and creative activities linked to our art collection.

Admission is free and there is no need to book in advance. Drop in for as little or as long as you like although please be prepared to wait a short while if the session is busy as activities will be organised on a first come, first served basis. For enquiries contact the Museum on 01752 304774.

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Tudor Tunes

Elizabethan House, 32 New Street, The Barbican
Saturday 16 February
10am to 12 noon and 1pm to 3pm

Join our musicians, 'Mock Hobby Horse', and help them create some authentic Elizabethan sounds. Standard admission charges apply but there is no need to book in advance and percussion instruments will be provided.

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Museum Fifteenth International Concert Series

Alison Stevens, mandolin and Steven Devine, piano
Sherwell United Church, North Hill
Thursday 24 January, 1pm

Flush with success from their first CD release together Alison and Steven present a wonderful programme of music featuring the fiery romantic virtuosity of Calace with the refined sound-worlds of Hummel and Beethoven.

Tickets are £6 each (no concessions) which includes a programme and can be purchased from Vibes Music, 19 Mayflower Street or by post. For postal orders please send a stamped self addressed envelope to Plymouth City Museum, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AJ, with a cheque made payable to 'Plymouth City Council'. Any unsold tickets will be available on the door.

For further information contact Jeanie Moore on 01752 304774 or 01752 770345 or email JeanieMooreMVO@aol.com or visit our concert pages.

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Barbican Archive Open Day

Central Library, North Hill
Saturday 23 February, drop in anytime between 10am and 4pm

Does your family come from the Barbican?

Join us at the Central Library to swap stories, identify people and places in our images and add to the archive of the Barbican and its people over the last century.

Find out more about the Barbican Archive.

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More Trees with Moor Trees

Dartmoor and Plymouth
Saturday 23 February, 10am to 4pm

A 'Wild About Plymouth' event. Visit the Moor Trees site and plant your own tree. Have a look at the seeds grown from our November 2007 event and help us create our own mini Wild About Plymouth woodland.

The cost for this event is just £1 per child and £2 per adult. Under 5s go free.

Places are limited and must be booked in advance by Friday 8 February 2008. Please call 01752 304774 for more details or visit our Wild About Plymouth pages. On the day, meet us at the back of the Museum on Tavistock Place for our minibus pick up.

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Book Launch - Simon Hall

Central Library, North Hill
Thursday 28 February, 7pm

BBC Crime Correspondent Simon Hall will be launching his new book 'The Death Pictures' at the Central Library. Drinks and nibbles will be served.

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