Grymm Tooms Travelling Museum
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We intend to appear at the following events in 2010:

   
  23 to 25 April - Zonnebeke
 

Our first visit here, and as it is to commemorate the First World War, we shall be doing an Edwardian period museum!

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  15 May - Newhaven
 

An award-winning attraction and a fine example of an English fortification, Newhaven Fort has the sights, sounds - even the smells - of the period, all found in a range of exhibitions and audio-visual presentations.

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  28 to 31 May - Audley End
 

King Henry VIII gave Walden Abbey to Sir Thomas Audley, who transformed it into his mansion, Audley End.

Our first visit here. Come and experience a day full of fun activities at an English Country Fayre! Be fascinated by exhilarating arena displays and Victorian variety shows, or enjoy curiosities and brass band music from a bygone age. See horses put though their paces in the Victorian Gymkhana.

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  19 & 20 June - Royal Gunpowder Mills, Victorian Experience
 

A family day of activities. Participate in Victorian games, learn about Victorian food and gifts.

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  31st July to 1st August - Royal Gunpowder Mills. WW1 event
 

96 years on from the start of the Great War, re-enactors and living historians will be taking part in this year's event.

Things to see and do include displays of WWI memorabilia, drill displays, battlefield archaeology and a Dog Fight with Sopwith and Fokker Triplanes on Sunday.

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  7 & 8 August - Blasts From The Past, Broadlands, Hampshire
 

It's back!

A welcome return for the immensely popular Classical Greek to Space Race multi-period event, now set within the magnificent parkland at the home of the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma. A highpoint of the event season, this event was immensely popular when previously held at Cliveden and is definitely one not to be missed.

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  21 & 22 August - Chiltern Open Air Museum
 

Our second visit here, this is a collection of more than 30 historic buildings. They include a working nineteenth century farmyard and a village with its green, cottages, forge and chapel. In their appropriate settings the buildings, the artefacts they contain and the activities associated with them all illustrate the influences that have shaped the distinctive landscape of the Chilterns.

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More information: to follow

   
  9th - 15th Sept - Illumini Event
 

An historical event starting Sept 9th for one week in London. The event is themed on subterranean London. The venue will be transformed to represent different historical subterranean locations, eg: Bunkers, underground prison (1844), crypts, disused underground stations, Camden catacombs and many more long forgotten spaces hidden under our city streets.

Artists are recreating spaces and displaying illuminated art works.

PLEASE NOTE: We are only there for the Thursday 9th opening night.

We are putting on a Magic Lantern show to illustrate the sort of entertainment that the Victorians used to venture out for.

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12 December - Royal Gunpowder Mills, Victorian Christmas Experience

 

The Royal Gunpowder Mills has pleasure in inviting you to join us to experience a Victorian Christmas.

A family day of activities. Participate in Victorian games, learn about the food and gifts, meet Colonel Brackenbury and his family as they celebrate Christmas.

Tickets must be booked in advance. See Gunpowder Mills website for details.

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More Information: to follow

   
  To read reports on events in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009:
   
 

Click here for pictures and here for reports on the events.