Using Herbs workshop, 10am – 12pm. Meet at the Museum and find out about herbal history and lore.
Visit the Sky Garden to harvest a selection of herbs, before returning to the Museum to make a herbal bath / tea bag, herbal oil and handmade soap.
£5 per person to cover materials, payable in cash on the day please.
For info, or to book, contact Amanda Moore, Education & Sustainability Officer on: amoore@culturewarrington.org, 01925 361 730
Join BBC Gardeners’ World presenter and gardening writer, Monty Don, as he shares his passion for gardens and the unique role they play in human inspiration and wellbeing.
Monty has been making television programmes for over 30 years and has been lead presenter of the BBC’s Gardener’s World since 2003. Since 2011 the programme has come from his own garden, Longmeadow, in Herefordshire.
After a thrilling sellout tour in 2022 Monty is heading back out on tour where he will share tales from his career in gardening, detail his favourite gardens – both ancient and modern, and reveal how he fell in love with the natural world. Discover how he created his beautiful garden at Longmeadow, the gardening practices he considers to be the most useful and important, and the magical impact of the changing of the seasons on each part of the garden.
With something for seasoned gardeners and green-fingered novices alike, don’t miss the opportunity to join Monty for a timely and thought-provoking celebration of the ever-surprising and comforting presence of nature. This is the ultimate Monty Don experience.
Tickets for this event include a £1 venue restoration levy, included in the ticket price. This fee supports building investment at the Grade II-listed Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
This two-day workshop will introduce participants to the diversity of flies occurring in Britain. Specimens will be used to practice finding and recognising key features that help to separate the various fly families.
There are over 100 fly families in Britain, containing over 7,000 species, so this workshop will focus on recognising families that contain larger sized species.
Their Tutor: Nigel Jones is County Diptera Recorder for Shropshire. He also co-organises the Flesh flies – Sarcophagidae Recording Scheme, the Empididae element of the Dolichopodidiae, Empididae and Hybotidae Recording Scheme.
Hilbre Island is an awesome gem of the North West of England, being only a stone’s throw away from Liverpool and Manchester.
There are limited opportunities to do this walk, so book early…
The walk is flat, lasting about 2 1/2 hours, but be aware that there are some dangerous cliffs, and it can be slippery and uneven underfoot at times. The guide’s foremost objective is to keep you safe, they will ensure that your journey is well paced and suited to the ability of the individual group. There are basic toilets facilities on the island.
Taking full advantage of the limited tidal windows to get a good look at all the island’s wild life and especially the seals. The Autumn is special as we say hello to all the birds migrating through the Dee Estuary at this time.
Bees, bees, bees! Did you know there are more than 270 bee species in Britain ranging from the well known honey bee, to bumblebees and solitary bees?
Andrea Ku, local artist and beekeeper will explain about the different types of bees and then you can decide which bee(s) need saving!
Participants will never look at bees in the same way again, and will have an understanding of how we can all play a part in protecting those that need us most.
Andrea will be bringing in an observational beehive to show a colony from one of her Liverpool beehives to show participants how to identify each caste of bee. This is a great opportunity to watch bees carrying out some of their duties with an expert to explain what is happening in their extraordinary world.
This session will help you to appreciate why we all must be highly respectful of bees, but not fearful. And don’t worry – the observational hive is fully enclosed and self-sustaining with no risk of bees escaping!
Ever thought about becoming a beekeeper? Andrea will also talk about beekeeping and careers in beekeeping and will be available to answer your questions at the end of the session.
This event is aimed primarily at young people aged 16-24 but all visitors are welcome to attend.
Free of charge, and places are limited to first come on the day!
This workshop will introduce you to a variety of animals housed at World Museum from both their Aquarium and Bug House galleries. One of their animal care team will talk you through the amazing adaptations of these creatures as well as highlighting the importance of our oceans and wildlife and help encourage visitors to care more about animals and their environments.
Visitors will get to see live animals up close and projected on screen to look at their unique features in detail. They will also get the chance to touch some artifacts related to the animals alongside some interactive games and activities to help reinforce what they have learned in the session.
Fridays, Session start time 1.15pm
Join birdwatching detectives the Twitchers on a fun adventure around Port Sunlight Village from Kids in Museums and Walker Books, as they celebrate the release of Feather, the fourth book in The Twitchers series from bestselling author M. G. Leonard.
Find the birds and make your own pledge to protect wildlife.
Collect your activity sheet and sticker from Port Sunlight Museum (open Wed–Sun, 10am–4.30pm)
When the East Indiaman ship the Fame sank 200 years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles’ vast collections of natural history specimens and drawings from Sumatra and Singapore were lost forever.
Raffles, a British East India Company official, found fame as the ‘founder’ of modern Singapore. He is also known as the founder of London Zoo and for the ‘discovery’ of Rafflesia, the giant flower of Sumatra.
Why was Raffles collecting animals and plants in Southeast Asia, and how did some birds collected for Raffles end up in Liverpool?
In 2019 the Museum of Liverpool archaeology team undertook the first excavation of courtyard housing in Liverpool.
This type of low quality, high density-housing was home to around half of Liverpool’s working class people by the mid 19th century. This dig, in an area of the city described as ‘little hell’ in a court case in the 1880s, revealed some surprises about the everyday lives of people in ‘Court 2, Oakes Street’.
Tickets for this talk cost £7. A booking link will be available soon on the museum’s event page.
Museums and galleries are a treasure trove of fascinating stories and world class collections. In this exciting series of talks you will get the opportunity to meet the experts who care for the museum’s collections, find out never-before-told behind the scenes stories of our most beloved objects, and get the opportunity to pick the brains of a real museum expert.
On 22 June they are bringing in a range of their world class experts who will tell you more about the collections they care for and the stories behind them. Stay for one talk, stay for the whole day. It’s down to you but don’t miss this unique opportunity to go beyond the label and find out more about the fascinating stories behind their collections.