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Yesterday we enjoyed a very special Abbey Museum Friends Mead & Cheese Event ‘Behind the Scenes’. It was a unique opportunity to accompany our museum Director, Edith Cuffe, OAM, into the Collection storage room and hear about how our collection is stored and cared for. We were able to go through in groups of eight, as the collections room is roomy but not so roomy that all of us fitted at once.
We got to see some of the historical treasures that are currently not on display, including some medieval ones. You'll see here one of two boxes of medieval spurs and I think you'll agree that they're pretty cool.
While it wasn't everyone's cup of tea, I was particularly interested in the medieval floor tiles, two of which had a really fascinating past! if you look carefully, you'll notice that two of the tiles are much darker than the others.
What you are looking at there, are two fire damaged tiles from John of Gaunt's residence from the Peasant's Revolt in 1381!
We had a delightful light afternoon tea of honey mead, wine, a multitude of cheeses and fresh fruit and, while waiting for our turn in the collections room, were tempted by the Abbey Gift Shoppe. I bought two medieval books, both of which I can't wait to get into.
One is about medieval people and the other is a medieval English cookbook.
Much fun was had by all, and I'm guessing by the attendance numbers that the museum may host this kind of afternoon event again.
We got to see some of the historical treasures that are currently not on display, including some medieval ones. You'll see here one of two boxes of medieval spurs and I think you'll agree that they're pretty cool.
While it wasn't everyone's cup of tea, I was particularly interested in the medieval floor tiles, two of which had a really fascinating past! if you look carefully, you'll notice that two of the tiles are much darker than the others.
What you are looking at there, are two fire damaged tiles from John of Gaunt's residence from the Peasant's Revolt in 1381!
We had a delightful light afternoon tea of honey mead, wine, a multitude of cheeses and fresh fruit and, while waiting for our turn in the collections room, were tempted by the Abbey Gift Shoppe. I bought two medieval books, both of which I can't wait to get into.
One is about medieval people and the other is a medieval English cookbook.
Much fun was had by all, and I'm guessing by the attendance numbers that the museum may host this kind of afternoon event again.
