Manager | July 28, 2011
The Yorkshire Building Society recently held a competition where the public were invited to vote for their favourite charity – Saxon Hill Special School, St Giles Hospice and Erasmus Darwin House – to win a share of £1000. Forms were available for people to complete in branch and the competition was open to all, not [...]
Manager | May 17, 2011
On 11th May the Govenors of Chasetown Specialist Sports College voted in favour of moving to Academy status. At the same meeeting it was agreed that the new name would be the Erasmus Darwin Academy. The school aims to convert to an Academy on 1st July 2011 and will also include the implementation of a [...]
Manager | January 19, 2011
Erasmus Darwin House is starting the New Year with a new idea – Honesty Box Days. On these days, held once a month, the museum will not charge its usual admission but will ask the visitor to give whatever they feel they can afford. Alison Wallis, Curator of Erasmus Darwin House explains ”as a museum [...]
Manager | January 18, 2011
We have been very busy here at Erasmus Darwin House putting together some new events – 2010 was certainly an exciting year! Tots @ Erasmus Darwin House(TEDs) was an activity group for toddlers and was a great success from the start. We have a group of about 12 families who regularly attend the weekly Wednesday [...]
Manager | September 5, 2010
THE ERASMUS DARWIN SOCIETY The Society has been meeting for the last ten years, usually on the last Wednesday of the month. It meets in the Lunar or Seminar Room of the House, and aims to share topics of interest and expertise, mostly on scientific, ethical,philosophical and religious matters. Although there is, occasionally, an outside [...]
Manager | August 31, 2010
We say goodbye to Katy and Matt our Museum Carteakers for a year-Matt is going onto a full time teaching post in Birmingham and we wish them both luck in their new life. We say hello to Tom and Rachel who took on the job last September – we are looking forward to working together. They [...]
Manager | May 31, 2010
On April 29th Erasmus Darwin House was notified that our application for Full Accreditation by the MLA had been approved. The MLA promote best practice in Museums,Libraries and Archives and we are very proud to have been recognised in such a way. All thanks goes to Alison Wallis who has managed to bring this to fruition as [...]
Manager | September 24, 2009
The grand opening of the newly refurbished museum happened on Saturday 4th July and the event was truly exciting! During the day we welcomed over 500 visitors to the museum and all seemed to enjoy the new exhibitions. The atmosphere in the House was amazing and it was so great to see so many people [...]
Manager | September 17, 2009
Erasmus Darwin House is currently trying to improve it’s education services and require the help of people interested in this area. After the recent refurbishment we feel we have a much brighter museum which can provide a better offer to schools and wider learning. However, Darwin House is mainly run by volunteers and we are always [...]
admin | April 8, 2009
We had a great party on Saturday for the museums 10th birthday – take a look at the photos in the gallery to see what fun we got up to! Needless to say, all the cake disappeared very quickly and was enjoyed by all! Thanks to everyone who turned up to share it with us.