Kensington Museums

Calendar
Visit
Date
Thursday, 3 Mar 2016 12:00 pm
Visit Organiser
Chris Stevens

Description

Our coach will start at The Beeches car park in Cirencester at 8.15am, calling at Cricklade Rugby Club, a Council Car Park, on the right at Stockham Close, immediately after leaving the A419, at 8.30am and arrive 11.00-11.30am, leaving Kensington at 4.30pm to be back at Cricklade by 7.30pm.
We will arrive at the door of the Science Museum, Natural History Museum and the Victoria and
Albert Museum.
Entry to the museums is free, below are exhibitions from which you can choose, we have not booked as there is so much choice;  you need to book yourself online.  
Exhibitions on 3rd March include:


Science Museum:
Charge with bookable timed slots:

  • Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age   
  • Gathering Leaves: photographs by Alec Soth

Free, but bookable:  

  • Dogs in Space: what plants, creatures and animals have been launched into space and why    

Free, no booking required:

  • Ada Lovelace: her story through her own words and those of her contemporaries  
  • Julia Margaret Cameron: pioneering photographer

 
Natural History Museum:
Charge and bookable

  • Wildlife Photographer of the year   
  • Michael Benson’s Otherworlds: a vision of our solar system

Free, no booking required

  • Bauer Brothers art exhibition: botanical and zoological watercolours  

 
Victoria and Albert Museum:
Charge and bookable

  • Bejewelled treasures: The Ali Thani Collection, the influence of Indian jewellery  

Book your place on the coach by Saturday 30th January
Please email  me at to book your place and confirm by paying £22.50 by bank
transfer to sort code 40-52-40; a/c number 00016646, Using the reference : your name/KM.
Or pay by cheque payable to CSTS sent to Ms Chris Stevens at 2 Silver St, Tetbury, GL8 8DH, with
your name, phone number and number of places.
 
We need definite numbers by the end of January to secure the coach booking!
 
The coach company is insured but you are responsible for  personal possessions and safety.