WHAT'S ON AT THE MUSEUM

Event category: Family Activity

Price: £3 per child
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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Come and join our toddler group on the first Wednesday of the month for informal fun in our beautiful setting. Enjoy crafts, rhymes and stories linked to the theme. Explore our light box and interactive toys and meet new friends, all whilst relaxing with a drink and a biscuit.
Story time will be under one of our beautiful stained glass windows.
Suitable for babies and children up to 5 years old
The session takes place in the museum gallery which is accessed via a stone spiral staircase of approximately 40 steps. Buggy park and toilet facilities available on the ground floor of the Cathedral.

Attendance is limited to one child/one adult per ticket.

Session times: 10:00-11:30
£3.00 per child which includes all craft materials and a drink and biscuit.
Suitable for ages: Under 5's
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Event category: Talk /Tour

Price: £10 (Friends: £8)
Location: Online
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Join us for a Q&A with David Judson and Tim Carey whose journey to create the worlds largest stained glass window is documented through the film 'Holy Frit'.

For those who have not yet seen the film, we recommend watching in advance. The film can be streamed or purchased online for just a few pounds and is available on Amazon Prime, YouTube and Apple TV.
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Event category: Exhibition

Price: Entry with Admission
Location: The Stained Glass Museum, South Triforium, Ely Cathedral, Ely, CB7 4DL
Whispers From Nature
‘Whispers from Nature’ brings together glass works Warboys has made using her Muller technique. Associations ripple through the resulting images. Marks seem to reference the interior of bodies, their map of veins and capillaries, while simultaneously suggesting the cartography of terrain. Circular, enclosed forms can be indicative of a womb or a nest while also evoking an ammonite’s spiral and the swirl of the Milky Way. These works are enigmatic, not settling to a single representation, instead overlaying imagery suggestive of biology, geology and cosmology within the boundaries of a single glass pane.

Contact: 01353 660347

Event category: Children's Workshop

Price: £17.50 per child
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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This ticket admits 1 child (who must be accompanied by an adult). Space is limited in the workshop so we ask that ONLY ONE parent/carer accompanies child for the duration of the workshop. Suitable for ages: 7+
Learn the principles and theory of glass cutting, fusing and firing glass. You will then work on your own design and make a 10cm x10cm glass piece.
Your glass will need to be kiln-fired after the workshop is finished. This process takes 24 hours and will usually takes place with in a week of the session. Once your fused artwork has been kiln-fired and cooled, we will contact you to let you know it is ready for collection.


Suitable for ages: 7+
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Event category: Children's Workshop

Price: £17.50 per child
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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This ticket admits 1 child (who must be accompanied by an adult). Space is limited in the workshop so we ask that ONLY ONE parent/carer accompanies child for the duration of the workshop. Suitable for ages: 7+
Learn the principles and theory of glass cutting, fusing and firing glass. You will then work on your own design and make a 10cm x10cm glass piece.
Your glass will need to be kiln-fired after the workshop is finished. This process takes 24 hours and will usually takes place with in a week of the session. Once your fused artwork has been kiln-fired and cooled, we will contact you to let you know it is ready for collection.


Suitable for ages: 7+
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Price: £6.50 (Friends: £5)
Location: Online
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We are delighted to welcome Surinder Warboys, artist of the museums latest exhibition 'Whispers from Nature' which opens on Saturday 5 April, to give an an online talk 'Stepping Stones to Steeples and Towers'.

Surinder says "‘Stepping Stones’ was the title of my first commission after leaving art school and all my life I have been attracted to steeples and towers"

During this illustrated talk, find out more about Surinder's commissions, creative practice and innovative muller techniques, which have been used to create the pieces for this exhibition.
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Price: £6.50
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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Join us in the stunning surroundings of the Stained Glass Museum for a relaxed, fun morning of making 4 stained glass inspired Easter crafts.
Come and make a beautiful, Easter themed suncatcher, glass jar, card and a scratch art picture to take home with you.
Suitable for children 6 years and older who must be accompanied by an adult.
Please note: The Museum is located on an upper level of the Grade-I listed medieval Ely Cathedral. The entrance to the museum is via a spiral stone staircase of 40 steps from the south-west transept of Ely Cathedral. The stairs are fitted with a handrail. Unfortunately, there is no lift access to the Museum. The toilets are quite a hike from the museum, situated near the Lady Chapel in the Cathedral, so it’s advised that young people go to the toilet before the session begins.

For further details contact: learning@stainedglassmuseum.com
Suitable for ages: 6 years +

Event category: Family Activity

Location: The Stained Glass Museum
Come and join us for this Easter holiday for our free drop-in session. Enjoy time in our stunning gallery creating a fun, stained glass inspired Easter craft to take home.


Donations to cover materials welcome!
No need to book, just turn up!
For further details contact: learning@stainedglassmuseum.com



Suitable for ages: All ages welcome
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Event category: Adult Workshop

Price: £280 per person including all materials, equipment and tuition
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
Workshop places go live on Thursday 12th December 2024

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During your workshop you will be looking at the classical portraits and faces taken from our gallery at the Stained Glass Museum to recreate your own version to take home. You also bring your own portrait designs if you wish.

You will be using a mixed variety of techniques and brushes to create your final pieces. A selection of tinted coloured glass will be available to use and the chance to explore using a variety of mediums to paint with as well as applying silver stain to your work. Each piece of glass will be fired several times over the length of the workshop ready for you to take home. You also bring your own portrait designs.

The workshop will have a maximum of six students, allowing for ample individual as well as group tuition.
Suitable for ages: 18+
Contact: 01353 660347

Event category: Adult Workshop

Price: £280 per person including all materials, equipment and tuition
Location: The Stained Glass Museum & Lighthouse Ely

Workshop places go live on Thursday 12th December 2024

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You begin the first day with your tutor by choosing your own panel design from a selection of patterns, known as ‘cartoons’. Then selecting the coloured glass for your painted areas, you will learn how to cut it to shape and your tutor will demonstrate how to size and score glass to make a break line, and how to grind the edges of the cut glass to achieve a precise shape. The remainder of the day will be spent learning how to apply the enamel paint using different paint techniques. Finished pieces will be kiln fired at intervals throughout the day.


During the second day, you will learn the leading, glazing and soldering techniques that will enable you to assemble your cut glass pieces into a single stained glass panel. Your tutor will demonstrate how to frame your cartoon with wood laths, forming a matrix into which lead calmes and glass can be inserted. You will be taught how to cut lead calmes, and how to open up their central channel to accommodate cut glass. Once you have fixed all of your glass pieces in lead, you will be shown how to use a soldering iron to bond the joints of lead. If you would like to be able to hang your panel, your tutor will help you solder a fixture to the lead. This is the final stage of the workshop, after which you will be able to take your stained glass panel home to enjoy!

Suitable for ages: 18+
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Event category: Talk /Tour

Price: From: £495
Location: Leicestershire
Download a booking form and return it to the museum to join us on what promises to be an excellent trip

From the vibrant county towns to picturesque villages dotted across the county, there is much to be enjoyed in Leicestershire. Across three days we will explore a variety of stained glass in situ including rare early medieval French glass, examples of the glittering windows of Arts and Crafts artists Theodora Salusbury, Douglas Strachan, and Veronica Whall, modern glass by Patrick Reyntiens and contemporary windows by Tom Denny, Derek Hunt (whose studio we will also visit) and Helen Whittaker, to name just a few.


Suitable for ages: Adults
Contact: events@stainedglassmuseum.com