What's on in February at Fulham Palace
Tours, family activities and talks on postcards and pruning wisteria
This month, Fulham Palace is hosting talks on postcards and wisteria pruning, tours of the house and garden and a family activity day.
Palace Explorers, for two to four year old and their adults also continue every Monday and Tuesday, except for half term week.
Heres what's on in February:
Wednesday 7, Sunday 11, Tuesday 20, Sunday 25 February, 12.30pm - History Tour
Learn the secrets of Fulham Palace on this Historical Tour through the garden and public rooms of the Palace. £6 per person, accompanied children free, no booking necessary, meet in the Museum. Click here for more information on tours.
Thursday 8, Sunday 18, February, 12.30pm - Garden Walk
Join us for this tour of the Fulham Palace garden and discover more about its history and the rare plants grown at the Palace today. £6 per person, accompanied children free, no booking necessary, meet in the Museum. Click here for more information on tours.
Friday 9 February, 10.30am-12.30pm - Wisteria Pruning Workshop
Learn how to winter prune in this practical and hands-on workshop led by Head Gardener Lucy Hart. Drawing on a wealth of experience from her time at Kew Gardens, Lucy will provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to get the most out of your own wisteria as you work through the stunning and historic specimen here at Fulham Palace.
Tickets: Adult £20.50, Unemployed Adult £16.50, Fulham Palace Volunteer Free
Booking essential, click here to book
Please wear garden clothes suitable for all weather conditions. Tools and gloves will be provided.This event takes place in the Walled Garden
Wednesday 14 February, 11am - 3pm - Family Activity Day: Building the Palace
Get your whole family hands-on over half-term with a day of construction and creativity. To celebrate the start of the next phase of Fulham Palace’s restoration project, they are opening the doors to experts and entertainers who’ll bring the patchwork palace to life with scissors and glue, stories and trails.
Join in with local illustrator, Millie Nice, as she brings her sense of fun and inventiveness to building a 3D paper model of the palace. You can hop in at any point during the day and add to Millie’s work.
Perfect for even the smallest visitors, collect a map and materials and take a brick-rubbing trail around the palace. And our heritage brick specialists – who will be a vital part of the restoration – are running a live activity in the Tudor courtyard all day.
Activities are suitable for ages 3+ and will take place all around the site. With lots scheduled indoors, this will be a great day out whatever the weather.
Tickets £2 per child. No booking necessary. Suitable for ages 3+. N.B. Children must be accompanied be an adult
Wednesday 21 February, 2pm - 2.30pm -
Postcards in Focus
Join Curator Miranda Poliakoff for a behind the scenes look at Fulham Palace's current exhibition. Explore the variety of postcards produced of Fulham Palace, Bishop's Park and the Bishops of London and find out more about how the exhibition was put together. Free, but booking recommended. Click here to book.
Monday 26 February, 2pm-3.15pm - Postcards from the Park
Bishop's Park is formed from meadows that were part of the Bishop of London's estate. It was a popular subject for postcards. Sally Miller, garden historian and author of the acclaimed history of the Park, will give an illustrated talk describing the development of this historically important and popular park.
Tickets Adult £8.50, Unemployed Adult £6.50, Fulham Palace Volunteer £4.50. Booking recommended, click here to book
Palace Explorers -
Monday 5, 19 and 26 and Tuesday 6, 20 and 27 February - 9.30am-10.30am
These fun and creative facilitated sessions are geared specifically to 2-4 year olds and their adults. ach week offers the chance to explore and learn together through a specific theme, with arts and crafts, storytelling and dressing up, games, gardening, singing and whole host of other delights! £5 per child, Each session costs £5 per child, click here to learn more and book.
The current exhibition, Fulham Palace Through Postcards, is also open daily until 15 April.
There was a national craze for postcards from 1898 to the end of the Great War in 1918, the so-called Golden Age of the Postcard. With up to six deliveries a day, postcards could be used to arrange meetings, much as we do by texting today. Picture postcards were produced as souvenirs covering every conceivable aspect of life and death and millions were sent through the post each week.
This exhibition surveys the variety of postcards from all periods relating to the Palace and explores what they can reveal about its history. It also includes embroidered postcards of the Palace and the garden, made by Fulham Palace volunteers, who took their inspiration from the silk cards produced during the Great War in France.
February 4, 2018