Audience: Adults

Support Wycombe Museum and be in with the chance to win some fantastic prizes!
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Tickets are on sale from 24th November until 5pm on 21st December. Prizes will be drawn on Friday 5th January 2024.

For a full list of prizes and to buy your tickets, hit the button below.

Please share this far and wide, and ecourage all of your friends and to buy tickets – thank you so much in advance for your support!

Support Wycombe Museum and be in with the chance to win some fantastic prizes!
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Tickets are on sale from 24th November until 5pm on 21st December. Prizes will be drawn on Friday 5th January 2024.

For a full list of prizes and to buy your tickets, hit the button below.

Please share this far and wide, and ecourage all of your friends and to buy tickets – thank you so much in advance for your support!

Create your own unique festive door wreath from natural materials in this workshop led by Nature’s Jewels.

All materials provided.

For adults.

Tickets £37.50

Join museum volunteer Denise Lindsay for a free walking tour to discover the hidden history of High Wycombe’s High Street.

Starting at Pann Mill at 10am, ending at Wycombe Museum at approximately 11.30am.

Please book below to secure your place.

This walking tour is free, but we are gladly accepting donations. You can make a donation as your ticket purchase, or in the museum at the end of the tour.

Exclusive after-hours access to our collections, led by experienced artist and tutor Jane Peacock.

In this session we will be exploring the theme of texture in drawing. The evening will offer opportunities to join in with guided drawing and the freedom to explore galleries and choose your own subject matter.

Bring your own materials: we suggest pencils, fine line drawing pens and/ or charcoal, together with your choice of paper. If possible, bring your own drawing board, or something to support your work on. A4 clip boards are available to borrow. A lightweight camp stool would also be helpful, if you have one.

£15 (booking ahead essential), includes tea, coffee and biscuits.

For adults and children aged 14+. Suitable for all levels of experience, from complete beginners to experienced artists.

Part of our Art at the Museum series.

Drawing Evenings run on the first Tuesday of every other month.

See Jane Peacock’s website.

Do you want to learn to crochet? This class, aimed at complete beginners, will get you started on your own projects. All materials provided, including take-home how-to guides. Refreshments included.

Run by Gen of Woollywonkas

For adults and teens age 14+

Tickets £35

An illustrated talk by artist Cally Trench about the Museum’s charming portrait of a young man with a parrot, Joseph Pettifer, painted by a popular 18th-century portrait painter,  Joseph Highmore.

Joseph Pettifer belonged to a wealthy and powerful local family, some of whom had been mayors of High Wycombe, as is recorded in a wall monument in All Saints’ Church. Young Joseph died in 1748 at the age of 19, three years after this portrait was painted.

Joseph Highmore (c1692 – 1780) was well-regarded portrait painter, who also painted ‘conversation pieces’ and scenes from Samuel Richardson’s best-selling novel ‘Pamela’.

The talk will include a discussion of the multi-layered symbolism of parrots in art and the meanings of the hand-on-hip posture.

The portrait can be seen in Wycombe Museum’s Art Gallery.

This talk is free to attend. Please consider making a donation if you are able to do so.

Suggested donation £5 per person.

In this workshop for beginners, you will be introduced to the wonderful world of linocut!  You will guided though each stage of this fascinating process; designing, carving, inking and printing your very own single colour print edition.  You don’t need to bring anything along – other than a means of getting several very inky pieces of paper home – and remember to wear old clothes as you could get inky yourself!

Jane Peacock is our Artist in Residence and has years of experience in delivering high quality workshops for all ages both here at the Museum and further afield.  Her website is www.janepeacock.art.

Tickets £35