In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, Hedon Museum will close after Saturday 21st March, until further notice. The remaining two open days are to allow our current exhibitors to collect their display items. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Best wishes from Hedon Museum.
Our new exhibition schedule for 2020! Join us on 4th March for our new exhibition – A History of United Towing Co
Join us at Hedon Museum to learn about the proud maritime tradition of the Humber! We begin the year at Hedon Museum with maritime history, something vital to the Humber economy. In 1920, 7 companies joined forces to form United Towing Co Ltd, and were mostly involved in river and coastal towage but, in 1925, the first ocean towage was performed. The tow cost £3,600 pounds. That is approximately £153,000 in todays money, and the profit was over £4000 in todays money. In the following years, United Towing Co became a familiar sight in the worlds oceans.
In the late 1980s, United Towing Co withdrew from the worlds oceans, but its memory is kept alive. The manning of tugs was very much a family business, and a career with the company can still today be an introduction to a seafaring life. The immediate objective of United Towing Co in the modern era, is to keep alive the memory of the company, its tugs and its crews.
ADMISSION IS FREE. Exhibition runs from 4th March – 18th April. Opening times are 10am – 4pm. Refreshments available. Souvenirs and pre-loved books for sale.
Hedon Museum is closed for the winter but next year is already planned! We’ll open again on 4th March with history exhibitions including cameras, 70s culture, pub signs and United Towing Co Ltd. We’ll also have arts and crafts exhibitions including paintings, ceramics and wood turning. We look forward to welcoming you in 2020!
On the evening of 29th November, during the Hedon Lights Switch On, we will open our doors once again to welcome visitors. On a freezing cold night, what better place to be than a warm museum with a hot drink and unique gifts to buy?
Traenerhus, founded by Prudence Todd, is an artistic workshop and arts and craft shop near Hull’s Museums Quarter. Among the staff are 12 volunteers and 10 teaching artists, and there are approximately 60 artists selling works in the shop. The purchase of the premises was a last-minute decision, made out of a desire to find a workshop for herself and other crafters and painters. Prudence had a determination to bring creative people together in a friendly atmosphere. The initial intention was simply to create a place to work and teach all manner of arts and crafts. The gift shop evolved naturally from this ambition, as a place to sell the works created by the artists who work, volunteer and learn at Traenerhus. If you’re looking for unique gifts, Traenerhus is a great place to look! You’ll find, either to buy or learn, more kinds of arts and crafts than you could think of – glass, ceramic, illustration, tile, concept art, poetry, textile, book binding and more! Many of these will be on display at Hedon Museum!
Lynne Lobar has always been interested in art, though it was only 10 years ago that she decided to try painting and found she had a gift. She is especially drawn to watercolour, but dislikes washed out colour. Instead, she prefers to use deep, intensely bright colours to bring life to her favourite subjects. She enjoys looking for inspiration in art galleries, she has even visited Hampton Court Flower Show and, though Lynne has branched out over the years to portraiture, she always comes back to flowers. She strongly believes that all flowers are beautiful, even dandelions, a claim you can hardly disagree with when you set eyes upon her paintings. The inspiringly bright and colourful images will no doubt put a smile on your face.
Both Lynne Lobar and the artists at Traenerhus will be selling works at Hedon Museum, so be sure to come and have a look for some unique Christmas presents!
6th November – 29th November. Wednesdays & Saturdays 10am-4pm. FREE ADMISSION. Refreshments available. Souvenirs and pre-loved books for sale.
This Halloween at Hedon Museum, we’re inviting you to share your memories with us.
Our latest area of research is ‘shops’ and we want to hear your stories about Hedon and other local villages.
We would love to see you on Thursday 31st October from 1pm to 4pm at Hedon Museum!
This new Hedon Museum exhibition is commemorating 80 years since the beginning of WWII. The exhibition will focus on how the people at home helped to win the war.
On Friday 1st September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. In response, Britain sent an ultimatum to Germany, demanding the immediate withdrawal of its troops from Poland. Hitler ignored it, thereby courting what is now considered to be the deadliest military conflict in history, ending the lives of approximately 75 million people worldwide.
At 11am on Sunday 3rd September 1939, the then Prime Minister of Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain, made a historic broadcast. He confirmed what many already feared, that we would be at war with Germany.
Chamberlain has gone down in history as the man who led a policy of ignorance to Hitler’s ambitions of Germany becoming a world power. With the memories of the WWI still fresh in the minds of the adult population, known previously as ‘the war to end all wars’, it was not surprising that the nation desired a lasting peace. However, the facts now show that, in spite of Chamberlain’s 3 visits to see Hitler in the hope of making peace, preparations for conflict were being made as early as July 1936. In that month, the first mass production of gas masks began. By December 1938, a National Register for war service had been opened on a voluntary basis, and in the same month the first few Jewish children arrived in Britain from Germany. The government allocated £200,000 for the building of air raid shelters, and a series of leaflets and pamphlets were printed and distributed on how to use a gas mask.
During the conflict, with the armed service busy at the front, the people back home had to play their part too. Everybody did their bit. Local organisations such as The Civil Defence, A.R.P., The Home Guard, The Land Army, The Volunteer Fire Service, The Secret Army, The Red Cross, The W.I., The Observer Corps, Special Constables and others rapidly formed or were expanded. The people at home were truly vital to the war effort.
11th September – 2nd November. Wednesdays & Saturdays 10am-4pm. FREE ADMISSION. Refreshments available. Souvenirs and pre-loved books for sale.
Prepare to be enchanted! For the next month Hedon Museum will be holding an exhibition of wedding dresses, dating from the 1890s to the 1990s. Also on display will be wedding photographs, on lend from volunteers of the museum itself. Lace, silks and satins will certainly put you in a fairy tale mood.
People have looked forward to their wedding days for thousands of years, but it was Queen Victoria who cemented the idea of the ‘white wedding’ which has since endured. At the time, many different colours were used for bride’s wedding dresses, including white, depending upon the personal taste of the bride and the money the family could afford to spend. However, since that happy royal day, it has become expected for a bride to wear white (although these ideas are now changing for modern brides).
17th July – 7th September. Refreshments available. Pre-loved books for sale.
