http://www.erasmusdarwin.org Celebrating the Amazing Dr Darwin Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:45:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are very excited to announce that Erasmus Darwin House has been shortlisted for the Best of the West Awards this year. These awards highlight and give recognition to innovative new Museum projects. All will be revealed on February 26th 2010-watch this space! http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2010/02/best-of-the-west-awards/ [caption id="attachment_285" align="alignleft" width="194" caption="Thomas Day courtesy of Revolutionary Players website"] [/caption] In 1770 Thomas Day came to Lichfield and became a friend of Darwin's and a fellow member of the Lunar Society. During his time across the pool at Stowe House he attempted to create himself the perfect wife by training ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2010/02/the-interesting-mrs-b-sabrina-sidney-and-the-lichfield-lunar-circle/ Bring the kids to Darwin House this Easter for our new Easter Egg Hunt activity. Between 11am and 5pm on 3rd, 4th & 5th April a number of Erasmus's eggs will be hidden around the museum. If you can help find them all you could win a chocolate egg to ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2010/02/easter-egg-hunt/ Once again Darwin House will be holding two fun open days in aid of National Science & Engineering Week. Join us on 13th March for Fun Physics & Cool Chemistry and 20th March for Brilliant Biology. In addition to the science activities on 13th March there will also be two ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2010/02/national-science-engineering-week-at-edh/ On the following days the Erasmus Darwin House is pleased to announce that normal admission charges are waivered. We would, however, ask for a donation from each visitor to contribute towards the upkeep of the House. 21ST  FEBRUARY,  12TH MARCH,  13TH APRIL,  19TH MAY,  10TH JUNE, 16TH JULY,  17TH AUGUST,  8TH ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2010/02/donation-days/ 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 ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2009/09/grand-opening-of-new-exhibition/ 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 ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2009/09/voluntary-education-assistants-needed/ 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 ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2009/04/10th-birthday-party/ Sunday 5th April is the 10th anniversary of the museum’s opening way back in 1999. On Saturday we’ll be celebrating this momentous occasion with a party and cake! Everyone is welcome to join us for a slice and the museum will be free to enter on this special day only, ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2009/04/happy-10th-birthday-edh/ You may not know this, but EDH is run mainly by volunteers. The museum is a registered charity working on a very limited budget which means we cannot employ all the help we need. We have a fantastic bunch of volunteers at the moment who help us with reception duties ... http://www.erasmusdarwin.org/2009/04/volunteers-needed/