Events

Details of Weymouth Museum events.

21October Monday
Museum Talk

Friends of Weymouth Museum – Autumn Talks

Time: Monday, October 21, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
The Friends of Weymouth Museum autumn programme of talks will start on 21 October 2024.  Full details of the talks will be posted here later in the year.
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18March Monday
Museum Talk

Teas & Talks – The Story of Weymouth Museum

Time: Monday, March 18, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
Graham Perry, Chair of the Friends of Weymouth Museum, will present a history of the town’s long struggle to establish a permanent museum which first started in 1858.  The talk will include lots of photos from the museum’s archives including pictures from the museum in the old Melcombe Regis Boys School and some glimpses of […]
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11March Monday
Museum Talk

Teas & Talks – “Hospital Blues”: Nursing in Dorset during the First World War

Time: Monday, March 11, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
During the First World War, an estimated 60,000 volunteers served with the British Red Cross Society throughout Britain, providing much-needed support in caring for sick and wounded servicemen returning from the Front. This talk explores the pivotal role played by Voluntary Aid Detachments in Dorset during the Great War and how their remarkable contributions were […]
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04March Monday
Museum Talk

Teas & Talks – Lifeboats and Lighthouses

Time: Monday, March 4, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
Lifeboats and Lighthouses Helen Baggott will take us on a postcard illustrated tour around the coast exploring stories of heroism.  The talk looks at some of the coastal landmarks that reveal stories written by our ancestors. As well as sharing the stories of who sent and received some of the cards, this talk will also […]
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26February Monday
Museum Talk

Teas & Talks – Sir Samuel Mico

Time: Monday, February 26, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
This talk, presented by Stuart McLeod, will look at the life of Sir Samuel Mico (1608 – 1666) a rich London merchant who was born in Melcombe Regis. Mico lived and traded through the Civil War and the Plague which were some of most perilous times in our national history.  He owned the original George […]
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19February Monday
Museum Talk

George Alfred Ellis – Weymouth’s first Historian

Time: Monday, February 19, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
Ellis was a fascinating early 19th century Weymouth character.  A surgeon/ apothecary – something like a modern G.P., he followed an active professional life treating what today might be called the middle-class patients who could afford to pay for his services.  However, his interests were much broader; as well as following his father in his […]
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12February Monday
Museum Talk

Teas & Talks – Heart of Stone

Time: Monday, February 12, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
Join writer Sarah Acton in-conversation with former Portland Quarrymen, Trevor Mccolm and Rab Stone.  They will be remembering working life in the Portland quarries pre-mechanisation, traditions of the Portland stone industry and its people.  There will also be a Q&A session. Trevor and Rab are Portlanders and remember life shaped by quarrying days, tight-knit local […]
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20November Monday
Museum Talk

Teas & Talks – Local History through Postcards presented by Paul Atterbury

Time: Monday, November 20, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
Postcards emerged as communication and instant history at the start of the 20th century.  A century or so later they represent moments frozen in time, and so are widely collected.  Living in the small village of Eype, Paul Atterbury became aware that over 200 postcards had been produced featuring different views of that village, and […]
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13November Monday
Museum Talk

Teas & Talks – Traditional Music, Stories and Folksong in Dorset

Time: Monday, November 13, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
Tim Laycock explores the written and oral heritage of folksong, country dance music and gallery music in south Dorset communities.  Readings from William Barnes, Thomas Hardy and the Rev Galpin, and music from the Hardy, Rose and Luckham manuscripts played on concertina, melodeon, flute and cello. Tim Laycock has spent most of his working life […]
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06November Monday
Museum Talk

Teas & Talks – Portland Curiosities

Time: Monday, November 6, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Hope Church, Trinity Street, Weymouth DT4 8TW
Geoff will introduce his audience to a wide selection of Portland characters and hidden places starting with those long-eared creatures whose name must never be spoken and their connection to Wallace and Gromit.  Geoff will swiftly move on to the extraordinary life of Marie Stopes, the Family Planning pioneer, who lived in the Upper Lighthouse […]
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The new entrance facilities were only made possible through an emergency fund from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

We have also benefitted from the active support of The Friends of Weymouth Museum.