Members
Members’ Evening: Behind the Store Door
When
Time
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Where
Hemp Store and the collection store
Price
Free for members; bring one guest for $10
Book your place
The store is the room most members ask about and fewest have seen. It holds about 9,000 objects in 60 square metres, and Lionel Brack will take you round in groups of eight so nobody knocks anything over.
Back in the Hemp Store, we will show the 23 objects that joined the collection this year, from a set of dairy churn tags to a letter written on the back of a ropewalk invoice. The people who gave some of them will be there to tell you why.
This is the last of our four members’ evenings this year. There are 40 places, so please book. The store is reached by 6 steps; if you can’t manage them, tell us when you book and we will bring a selection out to you.
Questions about access for this event? Call (555) 555‑0167 or read the access guide.
Also coming up
Family
Twist Your Own Rope
Children aged 5 to 12 make a 2-metre skipping rope on our replica rope-walk jack, then test it in the yard. Every child takes their rope home.
Tour
Volunteer Open Morning
Meet the volunteers, see the parts of the building visitors don’t, and find out what each role involves. No commitment, and there is tea.
Exhibition
Ada Venn’s Tarrow: Glass Plates, 1898 to 1931
The town photographer’s own camera, and 90 new prints from the 3,100 glass plates she left the society in 1965. Many have never been shown.