St Albans Museum+Gallery is open again.  And with a brand new exhibition in The Weston Gallery that's perfectly timed for the Christmas and New Year season.  Curator Sarah Keeling tells Local Life all about Cabaret Mechanical Marvels and everything else you can see now and for the next many weeks....

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Cabaret Mechanical Marvels at the Museum+Gallery

In the brief respite between two lockdowns, St Albans Museum+Gallery opened for visitors - and Curator Sarah Keeling told Local Life listeners how they had prepared, what we could see in the summer and what would be coming up next.

After the lockdown

Extracts of Sundays Coverage of the Alban Virtual Street Festival 2020 with regular updates and exclusive news about the events happening online.

Alban Virtual Street Festival 2020 Coverage- Sunday Part 2

Alban Virtual Street Festival 2020 Coverage- Sunday Part 1

Extracts of Saturdays Coverage of the Alban Virtual Street Festival 2020 with regular updates and exclusive news about the events happening online.

Alban Virtual Street Festival 2020 Coverage- Saturday

For the concluding part of her audio tour of St Albans Museum+Gallery, Curator Sarah Kealing takes us into the West Glazed Link (with its views over Market Place and back into the Courtroom) and then onwards into the Keeper's Gallery where the most recent exhibition (pre-lockdown) was about Handley Page - an exhibition that can [...]

The Glazed Links and the Keeper’s Gallery

Continuing her tour of the building, Sarah Kealing moves up the Grand Staircase, with its many images of 'local people', and into The Assembly Room - the most impressive space in the building and one that offers a multitude of uses: from meetings and lectures to weddings, bar mitzvahs and parties. One of many installations [...]

The Grand Staircase & Assembly Room

Continuing her audio tour, Museum + Gallery Curator Sarah Kealing takes us into the Weston Gallery, a new location created during the major refurbishment and one that has already offered a wide variety of exhibitions.

The Weston Gallery

From The Courtroom, the prisoners were taken back down to the cells - a journey that Sarah Kealing follows so she can describe how they looked then and how they look now.....

The Cells

Continuing her audio tour of St Albans Museum+Gallery, Sarah Keeling describes the famous Courtroom (now the cafe).  From the dock in this beautifully restored circular chamber, local thieves were sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for crimes as minor as stealing a cricket bat.   Here too, in 1851, the Bribery Commission found St [...]

The Courtroom

Curator Sarah Keeling starts our virtual tour of the St Albans Museum+Gallery by walking through the entrance area towards the Courtroom.  Next time - upstairs to The Assembly Room.  (Photo Courtesy of St Albans Museums.)

Virtual tour – it starts on the ground floor…

Catherine Newley reminds us about the intriguing project that was launched while the Museum+Gallery was under development and is still available online.  "Talking Buildings" tells us the history of many buildings - past and present - in the buildings' own words!  Rediscover St Albans and look at the city with fresh eyes (and ears).  (Photo Courtesy [...]

Buildings that talk can tell us a lot

Everything was prepared and then the lock-down meant we could not visit Hertfordshire Open 2020 in April - but we can still see the work of 50 artists and 80 artworks of all kinds online.  And also catch up online with the exhibition on local aviation company Handley Page, which opened briefly in March.    [...]

Exhibitions available online

Catherine Newley, Audience Development Manager, explains how to access online more than 50,000 objects and specimens in the collection at St Albans  Museum+Gallery. (Photo Courtesy St Albans Museums)

Looking inside when the doors are closed

Curator of Collections Sarah Keeling takes Rob Pearman on a guided 'audio' tour around the new St Albans Museum + Gallery, from the main entrance and the timeline into every exhibition and display space including the Weston Gallery, the Benefactors’ Walk of Fame, the Courtroom and Cells, the Grand Staircase and the Assembly Room.

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