New Publications in the Museum Shop

'Bygone Wisbech Calendar'

A4 - £5.95 A3 - £8.95

'Wisbech - It's Recent Past' Calendar

A4 - £4.99

'Evil Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around The Fens'

- Glenda Goulden

£12.99

Cabinet of Curiosities

Can you identify this object?

Is it
A - Sugar Tongs?
B- Decorative Bull Leader?
C- Skirt Lifter?

Used in the 19th century.

Exhibition in the Hudson Room
A collection of the weird and wonderful not usually on display.

Tuesday to Saturday
10am - 4pm. Last admissions 3.45pm

Open until 20th December 2008.

FREE ADMISSION

More Curiosities!

Library Exhibition

Saturday 6th December 2008

11am - 3pm

FREE ADMISSION

Come and see our killer whale!

The Christmas Market

On Monday 17th December 2007 Wisbech and Fenland Museum had a Christmas food tasting session where visitors discovered the cuisine of ages past, as part of the Christmas Market festivities in Wisbech. One of our volunteers Sarah Hawkes brought in a boiled and roasted boar’s head and talked about Saxon Christmas traditions. A boar’s head was central to the midwinter solstice celebrations.

Alison Sloan from Fascinating Food also made some traditional foods for people to eat. She made Elizabethan ‘Shred Pies’ (mince pies), Tudor ‘March Pane’ (Marzipan cake) and Christmas pudding through the ages. Overall the event was well received by the public and everyone thoroughly enjoyed learning about Christmas traditions through the theme of food.