Chatteris Museum

🎅🏻Father Christmas has arrived!!🎅🏻 Come visit from 3.30pm until 6pm There is no need to book. Entrance will be through the museum's rear gates only Tickets are £3 per child. Any profits will be donated to Chatteris Christmas Lights Fund and The Chatteris Museum Trust

🎄Our wonderful volunteers have decorated a tree for the Chatteris Parish Church Christmas Tree Festival! Drop by the Church on switch on night, 4-7pm to see all the beautiful trees decorated by local community groups. They’ll also have music performances & hot drinks available!

Feeling the chill?🥶 Chatty Mouse has a hand-knitted hat lovingly made by our volunteer elves. Come & buy yours during our opening hours & support your award-winning Museum! Don’t forget this Saturday to coincide with the Christmas Lights switch on the museum will be open 2-6pm

UPDATE: we are now fully booked for our early quiet slots for Santa’s Grotto 🎅🏻But fear not, as Santa’s Grotto will be open from 3:30-6pm with no need to book in advance on Saturday during the Chatteris Christmas Lights switch on!

Reminder: We’re offering a limited number of quiet slots between 2pm and 2.45pm. These quiet slots must be pre-booked by Mon 25 Nov by emailing the museum at info@chatterismuseum.org.uk with numbers attending & we’ll contact you with a timed slot. £3 fee payable on the day.

🌟Just 1 week until the Chatteris Christmas Lights Switch On!🌟 🎅🏻Father Christmas will be at Chatteris Museum to greet children 3.30-6pm No need to book Entrance through the museum's rear gates only Tickets are £3 per child

Come check them out - we are open: Thurs 2-4pm Fri 10am-1pm Sat 2-4pm #ChatterisMuseum #NewItems #Computers #VideoGames #Commodore64 #Acetronic #VIC20 #1980s #ChristmasList #RetroGaming #Nostalgia

👾Who had a computer or video game on their Christmas wish list back in the 1980s?📝 Now on display are some recent acquisitions including a Commodore 64 & an Acetronic video game system!🕹️

We’re offering a limited number of slots at 2pm-2.45pm for children who may benefit from a quieter time to say 'Hello' to Father Christmas. These must be pre-booked by emailing info@chatterismuseum.org.uk with numbers attending by Mon 25 Nov & we’ll contact you with a timed slot

Tickets are £3 per child. Any profits will be donated to Chatteris Christmas Lights Fund & The Chatteris Museum Trust.

🎅🏻The museum is pleased to host a visit by Father Christmas to coincide with the switch on of Chatteris Christmas Lights on Sat 30 Nov🎅🏻 Father Christmas will be in place to greet children from 3.30pm-6pm. No need to book. Entrance will be through the museum's rear gates only.

🎄We’re all set up ready for the Chatteris Parish Church Christmas Craft & Food Fair!🎄 Come see us 9:30am-2pm tomorrow & browse some lovely festive items crafted by our talented volunteers!

If you haven't, please visit, like & subscribe youtube.com/watch?v=VHScPH… & watch out for some exciting news about what we'll be doing next! #ChatterisGRT #TravellerCulture #OneVoice4Travellers #NSNA #MWTM #MinuteWithTheMuseum #WagonPainting 2/2

Travellers in Time: We're on Film!🎬 If you've been in to see our Gypsy & Traveller Histories display (on until 1 Dec) we hope you picked up the catalogue (still a few left!) & explored the link to our YouTube channel, where wagon painter Joe gives us a taster of his work 1/2…

🎄Come see us THIS SATURDAY, 9:30am-2pm at Chatteris Parish Church Christmas Craft & Food Fair! Our fantastic volunteers have been working hard crafting some lovely items, so why not swing by our stall for your Christmas gifts & help support us in raising funds for the museum

Shaw's 'Thompsons on Chatteris Fen' image used in this post by kind permission of the @LivUniSCA Archive #ChatterisGRT #NewExhibition #TravellerCulture #OneVoice4Travellers #NSNA #FoodMuseum #LivUniSCA #LiverpoolSpecialCollectionsandArchives

The 1911 census has Jonathan Brinkley, 71 ‘travelling hawker’ living in a ‘caravan and open tent’ on Turf Fen with wife Lydia, part of a small group of travellers inc Naomi Webb & Joseph & Emma Thompson, but no sign of Isiah’s family in the record.

Travellers in Time: Looking for the Brinkleys Thanks to @FoodMuseumUK we found another photo taken on Chatteris Fen in 1911 by Fred Shaw, now in the @LivUniSCA [sca-archives.liverpool.ac.uk/Record/44282] ‘Wife and children of Isiah Brinkley’ #ChatterisGRT #TravellerCulture #OneVoice4Travellers

💐Celebrate the rich Traveller heritage in Chatteris & the surrounding area with our Chatteris GRT exhibition, created in partnership with One Voice 4 Travellers thanks to support from @Aimuseums @HeritageFundUK We are open: Thursdays 2-4pm Fridays 10am-1pm Saturdays 2-4pm 3/3

🍂Embark on a thought-provoking journey through Chatteris’ dark histories & artefacts & explore our accompanying digital tour online too! 2/3…

Come take a look at our latest exhibitions: 🌹To mark Remembrance, we have various items from our archives including recovered items from the crash site of ED715, a Lancaster bomber that crashed in New Road in May 1943. 1/3…