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Showing 15 events for 14 September 2024 to 14 December 2024:

• Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings

  11/05/2024 to 09/11/2024

  Location: The Novium Museum

  Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings showcases how even the largest dinosaurs started life as eggs and tiny hatchlings.
  

  
  Discover the secrets of dinosaur eggs and babies with amazing dinosaur specimens from around the world. The exhibition will follow iconic dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and Diplodocus on their perilous journey from egg to adult. Skeletons, authentic models, and stunning artworks will bring the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods to life!

  
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• The Selsey Tramway

  13/07/2024 to 31/03/2025

  Location: The Novium Museum

  This exhibition recounts the fascinating but ill-fated story of Selsey Tramway.
  
  The exhibition recounts how a railway line was proposed to link the then remote and isolated village of Selsey with Chichester. By August 1897, the Selsey Tramway was born, operated by The Hundred of Manhood and Selsey Tramway Company.
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• Heritage Open Days - visit Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings for free

  15/09/2024 to 15/09/2024

  Location: The Novium Museum

  To celebrate this year's Heritage Open Days, we're offering you the opportunity to visit Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings for free! 😁
  
  Heritage Open Days is England's largest community led festival of history and culture.
  
  Every year in September it brings people together to celebrate their heritage, community and history giving visitors the chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences - and it's all free!
  
  Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings follows iconic dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and Diplodocus on their perilous journey from egg to adult. 🦕
  
  For our younger Dino fans, explore our fun interactives, including Dino Dress Up, activity drawers, colouring and a fun themed toy box!
  
  Free sessions are limited to Sunday, 15 September from 2.30pm. 
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• Reconstructing The Lives Of Dinosaurs - An Evening Talk with Darren Naish

  19/09/2024 to 19/09/2024

  Location: The Novium Museum

  Darren William Naish is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator.
  
  Darren will discuss the evidence, and also the speculations and extrapolations, used in bringing dinosaurs back to life. Numerous fascinating and sometimes spectacular fossils give experts crucial insights into dinosaur behaviour. Perhaps more important is evidence from living animals, and specifically from those that surround dinosaurs in the family tree, birds in particular. Combined, this evidence shows that the world of dinosaurs was colourful and complex, and perhaps sometimes surprising and bizarre. 

  Talk begins at 6.30pm. Tickets £8.50 per person, which includes access to Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings from 5.30pm.
  

  
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• Quiet Session - Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings

  28/09/2024 to 28/09/2024

  Location: The Novium Museum

  Our quiet sessions are aimed at anyone who feels that they would benefit from a more relaxed experience when visiting Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings including, but not limited to, adults and children with autism and other sensory or mental health needs and adults living with dementia. All background noise will be turned off during these sessions and gallery capacity limited. At 10.30am sounds will be turned back on, but you are welcome to remain in the exhibition gallery and museum for as long as you like.
  
  Quiet Sessions run from 9.30-10.30am 
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• The Guildhall - Wedding Showcase

  29/09/2024 to 29/09/2024

  Location: The Guildhall, Priory Park

  Whether you're newly engaged, searching for the perfect wedding ceremony venue, or looking to find the right suppliers for your dream wedding, join us at The Guildhall, in Priory Park.
  
  We'll be open from 11am until 3pm to showcase what we can offer for your wedding day.
  
  Our team of wedding co-ordinators will be on hand all day to talk you through a wedding ceremony at The Guildhall and answer any questions you might have.
  
  We'll also be joined by a team of passionate suppliers including:
  

  • Trula Marie's Little Cake Company
  • James White Photography
  • Keshira Creative Events - Wedding Planner & Stylist
  • Lemonade Ceremonies
  • Manor Nurseries - Florist

  Admission is free but we ask that you book your space in advance. 

  
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• The Guildhall - Open Morning

  03/10/2024 to 03/10/2024

  Location: The Guildhall, Priory Park

  Come along and see inside this beautiful building! Open 10:00am - 11:30am
  
  Situated in Priory Park, The Guildhall is a Grade 1 listed building with a rich history. The Guildhall was built in the 1270s by the Franciscans and was dissolved In October 1538 by King Henry VIII. The building witnessed many dramatic events in its history including the trial of members of the Hawkhurst Gang and the trial of the poet and artist William Blake. It later served as the town hall and museum but is now mainly used for weddings and events and is rarely open to the public.
  
  
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• Were there dinosaurs before Jurassic Park? - An evening talk with Dougal Dixon

  03/10/2024 to 03/10/2024

  Location: The Novium Museum

  Dougal Dixon is a geologist, palaeontologist, educator and author.
  
  Dougal Dixon became interested in dinosaurs in the 1950s, before they were part of our culture. Now, in a ‘different world’, where the history of dinosaurs is entwined into modern day culture, Dougal will explore the growth of interest and appreciation of dinosaurs in the general media, and a history of discovery.

  Talk begins at 6.30pm. Tickets £8.50 per person, which includes access to Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings from 5.30pm. 
  

  
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• Quiet Session - Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings

  26/10/2024 to 26/10/2024

  Location: The Novium Museum

  Our quiet sessions are aimed at anyone who feels that they would benefit from a more relaxed experience when visiting Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings including, but not limited to, adults and children with autism and other sensory or mental health needs and adults living with dementia. All background noise will be turned off during these sessions and gallery capacity limited. At 10.30am sounds will be turned back on, but you are welcome to remain in the exhibition gallery and museum for as long as you like.
  
  Quiet Sessions run from 9.30-10.30am 
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• Quiet Session - Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings

  31/10/2024 to 31/10/2024

  Location: The Novium Museum

  Our quiet sessions are aimed at anyone who feels that they would benefit from a more relaxed experience when visiting Dinosaurs: Hungry Hatchlings including, but not limited to, adults and children with autism and other sensory or mental health needs and adults living with dementia. All background noise will be turned off during these sessions and gallery capacity limited. At 10.30am sounds will be turned back on, but you are welcome to remain in the exhibition gallery and museum for as long as you like.
  
  Quiet Sessions run from 9.30-10.30am 
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• The Guildhall - Open Morning

  07/11/2024 to 07/11/2024

  Location: The Guildhall, Priory Park

  Come along and see inside this beautiful building! Open 10:00am - 11:30am
  
  Situated in Priory Park, The Guildhall is a Grade 1 listed building with a rich history. The Guildhall was built in the 1270s by the Franciscans and was dissolved In October 1538 by King Henry VIII. The building witnessed many dramatic events in its history including the trial of members of the Hawkhurst Gang and the trial of the poet and artist William Blake. It later served as the town hall and museum but is now mainly used for weddings and events and is rarely open to the public.
  
  Free, drop in event.
  

  

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• The Guildhall - Open Morning

  05/12/2024 to 05/12/2024

  Location: The Guildhall, Priory Park

  Come along and see inside this beautiful building! Open 10:00am - 11:30am
  
  Situated in Priory Park, The Guildhall is a Grade 1 listed building with a rich history. The Guildhall was built in the 1270s by the Franciscans and was dissolved In October 1538 by King Henry VIII. The building witnessed many dramatic events in its history including the trial of members of the Hawkhurst Gang and the trial of the poet and artist William Blake. It later served as the town hall and museum but is now mainly used for weddings and events and is rarely open to the public.
  
  
  Free, drop in event.
  

  

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• Mystery Warrior: The North Bersted Man

  'In more than thirty years of archaeology this is the most spectacular discovery that I have witnessed' - James Kenny, District Archaeologist.

  The 'Mystery Warrior' was discovered in 2008 by Thames Valley Archaeological Services Ltd. This was found during archaeological investigations, prior to the construction of Berkley Homes' Bersted Park.
  

  Arguably the most elaborately equipped warrior grave ever found in England, archaeologists believe he was a refugee French Gallic fighter who fled Julius Caesar's Roman Army as they swept across continental Europe around 50BC.
  

  
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• King Charles I Bust

  This important historical sculpture depicts King Charles I wearing a gold crown and chain of office.
  

  The unique bust, which was created by Hubert Le Sueur — an appointed sculptor to King Louis XIII of France who spent most of his career at the English court of King Charles I — was presented to the City of Chichester, West Sussex, where it was displayed in the niche of Chichester's Market Cross from the 1660s.
  

  
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• The Racton Man

  'Racton Burial', a permanent exhibition located in the first floor gallery, delves into the history of a fascinating burial discovered in 1989, but only recently thoroughly investigated by a team of specialists. Find out about this individual's captivating story of life and death.
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