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Museum wins County Heritage Award

The Flintham Museum was joint winner of the Inspiration Award at the Nottinghamshire Heritage Awards held at Thoresby Hall on 20 July 2010.

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Flintham Open Gardens

Sunday 22 June 2014 the museum opened as part of Flintham's Open Gardens afternoon from 1-5pm.

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The Flintham Museum Scoops Two County Awards

The Nottinghamshire Heritage Forum's award ceremony was held on 17 July 2014 and the Flintham M useum won the Best Event category with our 'Meet Flintham's pre-World War One Families'.

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East Midlands Heritage Awards 9 June 2015

Museum volunteers have been working with people who have dementia and their carers for some years. Thanks to Sandford Cascade a grant was awarded in 2018 to resear’.

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SAILing Forth

The Museum has been granted a 'Sandford Award for Informal Learning' bursary to provide a series of 'memory boxes' about the 1960s.

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New Grant Helps Flintham Look Forward

Following our success with 'Keeping the Home Fires Burning?' a project about life in Flintham during World War One, the Flintham Museum has been awarded a further £9,300 by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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Tracing Your Family History?

Discovered that some of your ancestors lived at Flintham? Not sure what to do next? We have stacks of information about Flintham residents to help you further your search.

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Remember the 1960s?

In March 2017 we celebrated the 1960s with an evening of quizzes, fun activities, cheese and pineapple on sticks and lots of music. It was part of a project we're developing which will eventually assist people in their early 70s who have dementia.

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Get on Your Bike ......

The museum re-opened for the 2017 season in April. This year's shop window theme is Travel and, as always, our shop window dressers have put together a lively, colourful and quirky display using unsold shop stock and advertising material.

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'People, Places and Patterns'

An exhibition of photographs taken by Trevor Clayton took place on Sunday 29 October 2017 at Flintham Village Hall. Trevor, one of the museum's founders, was a professional photographer from 1966 until his death in 2005.

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Museum Accreditation

Every three years Accredited museums have to reapply to the Arts Council and prove that they are still worthy of retaining the national standard.

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Museum Waves the Flag

Well, actually it's a banner which is rather too big to wave. Museum volunteers have been busy designing and making a banner which we'll unfurl at our community Peace Picnic in July.

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Flintham Looked Forward, Sunday 11 November

Museum volunteer staged a series of 'happenings' in Flintham church on Sunday 11 November to reflect the ways in which village residents coped after the end of the Great War in 1918.

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Annual General Meeting

The Flintham Society's AGM took place in January 2019. It was a good opportunity to remind ourselves of how much we had achieved during the past year and to say 'thank you' to everyone who volunteers in running the museum and putting on a series of successful community activities.

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Spotlight on the Museum

The Flintham museum opened in 1999 and as part of our 20th anniversary celebrations we staged an exhibition in July at the Spotlight Gallery, Newark Town Hall Museum and Art Gallery. 

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