From free taster sessions and popular lectures to guided tours and object-based reminiscence sessions, there is something to suit all interests. Specialist artist-led workshops inspired by the collections are also available in the Learning Lab and provide a wonderful opportunity to get in touch with your creative side, learn new skills and make friends.
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August 03, 2016
It’s fair to say any new acquisition is exciting, but occasionally an item enters the building creating a stir amongst staff; something so good you can’t quite believe you’re lucky enough to get to work alongside it, and so beautiful you can’t wait to tell everyone. This month that item is a – what I […]
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Ivor the Engine is full of examples of dual audience appeal where child and adult audiences are addressed with equal care. We can see this quality in the episode ‘Unidentified Objects’, which begins with Ivor waiting at Llaniog station, and with Postgate’s narration stating: ‘Oh, I suppose there’s not a lot to do today, or […]
Fittingly, Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate frequently engineered their own solutions to the production challenges faced, such as: adopting a cardboard cut-out animation process for their early productions, which relied on sticky tack for tension and placement; or the Pingwings, whose crocheted bodies provided flexibility and durability; or the hybrid environments of the Pogles, which […]
In the introduction, we hear of “how a Prince built a long ship and sailed in it beyond the black ice at the edge of the world to bring home his bride from the land of the midnight sun”. Here, Postgate and Firmin seek to evoke a range of influences. The undertaking of such a […]
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