Recently by Chertsey Museum

Chertsey Museum is planning an exhibition later this year about the innovative institution Princess Mary Village Homes at Addlestone and wants to talk to former students. If you are a former student and would like to share your memories in the forthcoming exhibition, please contact Emma Warren on 01932 565 764 or email her at curator@chertseymuseum.org.uk

Brigid Strowbridge explores the ultimate 18th century fashion must-have, the sack back gown, at Chertsey Museum on Saturday 13 March, 1.30 to 3.30pm. A must for the fashion enthusiast, the event is aimed at all interest levels and includes a chance to handle and try on hand made replicas. £3.50 per person; prior booking required as space is limited,

Chertsey Museum will be holding two children's activity days during the Christmas holidays. The craft sessions take their inspiration from the Museum's Victorian Runnymede exhibition. The sessions are on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 December at either 11 to 12.30 or 2 to 3.30.

For a booking form, please contact Chertsey Museum on 01932 565764 during opening hours or visit the Museum website: www.chertseymuseum.org.uk.

In response to popular demand Chertsey Museum is again selling charity Christmas cards. This year the Museum has joined forces with the White Lodge Centre and there are 16 different designs on sale. Prices range from £2.99 to £3.75 for packs of 10.

The Christmas cards are on sale in the Museum shop during opening hours until 23 December.

Chertsey Museum is hosting a Creative Community project, Memory Machine, for three weeks this month from 7th to 28th.

Memory Machine is an audio visual art installation which explores the townscape of Addlestone using informal interviews combined with animation, sound and film. A series of thoughts and stories from the older generation have been filtered through the eyes and ears of young people. All the film footage and sound recording has been made by young people from Addlestone Youth Centre, through a series of workshops with composer Simon McCorry.

Chertsey Museum's new fashion display An Image of Itself opened on Saturday 19 September.

Featuring key pieces from the Olive Matthews Collection of Costume, this exhibition explores the way in which fashion is constantly influenced by the styles of the past. The display invites the visitor to draw fascinating and surprising comparisons though the careful juxtaposition of garments, sometimes centuries apart in date.

The History Wardrobe make a welcome return to Chertsey Museum on Saturday 29th August. They will be presenting an intimate view of Queen Victoria, inspired by her own journals, as she is dressed in the magnificent fashions of the 1850s.

There will be two sessions 10.30am to 12.15pm and 1.30pm to 3.15pm Booking is essential on 01932 565764. Cost £10 (£8.50 for Friends of Chertsey Museum).

Back by popular demand, Brigid Strowbridge will give a demonstration on the art of corset making at Chertsey Museum on Saturday 27 June.

The demonstration, which is inspired by the Victorian corsets on display in the Vanity Fair exhibition at the Museum, will take place at 10.30 and 1.30. Tickets are £4 per person; prior booking is required on 01932 565764

Chertsey Museum's temporary exhibition over the summer months is In Your Own Words. The exhibition draws on personal accounts of how life in the Borough of Runnymede has changed over the years. The memories are being collected through a local oral history project. Visitors will be able to listen to extracts of recorded memories and view many local history items from the Museum's collections. The exhibition opens on Saturday 13 June and remains on view until Saturday 13 September

The new display in the Discovery Zone at Chertsey Museum looks at life in Runnymede during the Victorian era.

Among the areas covered are schooling, the workhouse, housework, housing and shopping, all illustrated by items from the Museum's collections. Pride of place in the display is a fire place and chimney built by local carpenter, David Lowden, complete with a sweep's brush.