Ely Museum is kicking off the year with a programme of evening talks and craft workshops this spring.

The classes and talks will be ideal for beginners and also those with more experience.

Three talks inspired by the museum’s newest temporary exhibition 'Burial of a Princess: Treasures from a Saxon Cemetery in Ely' are on the agenda.

Visitors will have the opportunity to find out more about Ely’s Saxon past in this anniversary year as the museum commemorates the 1350th anniversary of Etheldreda founding the religious house in Ely that later became Ely Cathedral.

Find out more about the role of women and their use of botany on March 13 with Katie Childs, then what can be learned from skeletons on April 11 with Dr Trish Biers, and learn more about the excavations that inspired these talks in the third talk with Dr Sam Lucy, an archaeologist who worked on the excavation on May 8.

These talks will be taking place in the museum’s Aedwen Room in the evenings.

If you’d prefer to be a bit more hands-on, you can enjoy three practical workshops exploring three traditional crafts at the museum.

The first of the three, a willow weaving workshop on February 11, the next a class on modern day calligraphy on March 11 and to cap it off, a book binding workshop on June 17.

Each workshop is taught in a small group and will allow you to leave each of them with a new creation or skill in tow.

Emily Allen, community engagement officer at Ely Museum said: “We’re really excited to be bringing this programme of talks and workshops to Ely this spring!

“With some really interesting talks lined up, given by fantastic speakers, plus some brilliant hands-on workshops where you’ll be able to make something to be really proud of, there’s lots of fun to be had.”

Tickets are available now, book online now at: www.elymuseum.org.uk/whatson.,

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