Events for Adults
Tuesday Talk: The Kodak Collection
Tuesday 14th June, 2pm – 3pm
With Jayne Knight In 1985 the Kodak Museum moved from Kodak in Harrow to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, taking up residence in a converted...
Tuesday Talk: The Materials of the Artist
Tuesday 12th July, 2pm – 3pm
With Henry Wyatt This talk will deal with the use of different types of paint, tools and surfaces used by artists both now and down through the ages. About...
Tuesday Talk: Firefighting in the Early Days
Tuesday 26th July, 2pm – 3pm
With Pat Clarke This special exhibitions talk will use archival material to look at the incidence of fires around Pinner and Harrow and how people coped with them until the...
Retro Art Workshop
Wednesday 3rd August, 12pm
A Special Workshop Inspired by our Fine Art Collections Be inspired by the museum's fine art collections and produce a beautiful landscape in a 70s-style colour combination. In this workshop,...
Colour in St Mary’s Workshop
Wednesday 3rd August, 2:30pm
A Special Workshop Inspired by our Fine Art Collections Let local artist, Alexandra Veres, teach you how to recreate a past master's view of Harrow's most iconic church. She'll guide...
Heath Robinson’s Artistic Inventions Talk!
Monday 12th September, 2pm-3pm
Join Claire Linge, Education Officer at Heath Robinson Museum, as she explorers Heath Robinson’s astounding artistic inventions. This event is part of the national Heritage Open Days Festival. Image...
Tuesday Talk: When Middlesex had a Fire Brigade
Tuesday 20th September, 2pm-3pm
With Alan Field... Before 1965 Harrow was in the county of Middlesex. Middlesex went all the way from Staines way over to Potters Bar. Middlesex had one of the...
Tuesday Talk: Working for Nature
Tuesday 11th October, 2pm-3pm
With Simon Braidman Nature conservation work is good for us and the environment, it tries to mitigate the damage we do to our surroundings and we need our green...
Glass Workshop
Saturday 22nd October, 10am – 4pm
Are you looking for something fun and relaxing to try? Something creative and inspiring? Glass artist, Suzanne Raffellini will be leading a glass creative workshop. Here you will have plenty...
Tuesday Talk: The Most Perfect Cottage Hospital
Tuesday 8th November, 2pm-3pm
With Howard Greenwood Quoted from a letter to the Harrow Gazette, this talk will delve deep into the evolving history of the lost Harrow Hospital on Roxeth Hill. The talk...
Tuesday Talk: Season’s Greetings, Harrow
Tuesday 6th December, 2pm-3pm
With Linda Davies From Edwardian postcards to a range of wartime schemes, this talk explores an eclectic mix of Christmas-related ephemera with local connections, and discovers the stories and histories...
Memories of Harrow
Wednesdays, 12th Oct – 7th Dec, 10:30am
This 6-week, highly participatory course will provide you with a chance to discover the history of Harrow by gathering memories from family, friends and other people in the wider community....
Tuesday Talk: Behind the Cameras at the Movies
Tuesday 21st February, 2pm
With Judy Karbritz Who was discovered upside down in a toilet? Secrets revealed about the making of Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind, Singin’ in the Rain, The...
Tuesday Talk: Roger Hilton, Painter and Rebel
Tuesday 14th March, 2pm
With Jonathan Hutchins Roger Hilton (1911-1975) Painter and Rebel A Talk by the Northwood Artist Jonathan Hutchins On the Art and Times of Northwood's Greatest Son This talk...
Tuesday Talk: From Beacon to Folly
Tuesday 4th April, 2pm
Excavating St. Dominic’s Sixth Form College with Louis Leeves, Head of Classics, St Dominic's Sixth Form College Staff and students of St. Dominic's Sixth Form College have been excavating...