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Exhibitions
Corinium Museum Temporary Exhibitions 2009
The Corinium Museum strives to encourage access for all to its nationally important collections. Access to the museum collections is provided through the permanent displays within the museum, plus an extensive education and outreach programme. Further access is achieved through a diverse and imaginative temporary exhibitions programme.
Gods and Planets: Discovering Astronomy
Saturday 14th November - Saturday 16th January
Working in partnership with the Cotswold Astronomical Society, the Corinium Museum presents this illuminating exhibition about astronomy.
Visitors will explore space, constellations and the planets, and the links with Greek and Roman gods, myths and legends linking in with some of the Museum's Roman collections.
The exhibition profiles the work of local astronomers past and present: including Reverend James Bradley andNathaniel Bliss from Gloucestershire, and Cirencester born Elizabeth Brown.
In the Temporary Exhibition Gallery there will be sculptures by Chris Williams who is a member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA), and paintings by Garry Harwood a lifetime member and fellow of the IAAA. Pupils from Northleach C of E Primary School are also participating in this exhibition by producing a 'planetary painting'.
This exhibition is supported by the Royal Astronomical Society for the International year of Astronomy 2009.
OK Computer - Imogen Harvey-Lewis
Saturday 23rd January - Monday 22nd February
This collection of drawings by Imogen Harvey-Lewis sets out to illustrate, in no uncertain terms, the artists delight in the low- tech.
Her original and graphic style has an unerring clarity that belies her assertive connection to the actual and tangible world in all it's beauty.
With her own children fast overtaking her in their abilities to 'log on' and 'lounge out', Imogen dodges the bombardment of virtual reality and reiterates the actual in her love of drawing, of books, of walking and of 'real things'.
Young Roots Creation project
Saturday 27th February - Tuesday 16th March, 2010
This exhibition is the culmination of a Heritage Lottery funded project entitled 'Creation' which was a collaboration between the Corinium Museum, the Holst Birthplace Museum and Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum and educational partners. The project has been extended by the Heritage Lottery Fund giving young people from Cirencester College the opportunity to curate their own exhibition focussing on Prehistoric Art.
The exhibition will feature tools, art work and ceramics created during a series of experimental archaeology sessions. Visitors will explore the techniques and processes used to manufacture implements and enjoy artworks utilising the local materials to hand.
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Corinium Museum, Park Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 2BX
Telephone: 01285 655 611