What's On in October at Fulham Palace
Events include family fun day and restoration project exhibition in the museum
Fulham Palace is hosting talks, walks, tours and events for children and young people in October.
Here's what is still to come this month:
Sunday 27 October, 11am - 3pm - Family fun day: Astonishing archaeology
Discover different eras at the site, meet Romans who used to live here and find out about Roman medicine, agriculture and people enslaved by the Romans. With tours, trails, crafts and real artefact handling sessions, this family fun day is all about discovering what’s hidden beneath our feet, without all the digging!
Free drop-in event, suitable for ages 3+. Children must be accompanied by an adult
Tours, walks and talks plus Palace Explorers sessions for toddlers also continue throughout October as follows:
Sunday 20 October - 2pm - 3pm - Garden Walk
On this tour around Fulham Palace's 13 acre site, hear how successive Bishops of London made their mark on the garden, learn about the unusual specimens grown here today and find out about the exciting projects the gardener team are currently working on to restore this Grade II* listed garden.
Tickets for garden walks and history tours cost £6 per person, accompanied children free. No need to book in advance. Meet at the visitor welcome desk.
Sunday 27 October - 12.30pm - 1.30pm, Tuesday 15 October - 2pm - 3pm - History Tour
On this tour of the house and garden, learn how their passions, wealth and power shaped Fulham Palace. Find out about the mixture of different architectural styles that make up the house, the stories of the Bishops and their families who called the Palace home, and how the 13 acre garden evolved over the centuries to become the beautiful urban oasis it is today.
Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 October, 9.30am - 10.30am - Palace Explorers
These fun and creative facilitated sessions are geared specifically to 2-4 year olds and their adults.
Booking essential. £5.50 per session. To book your place email education@fulhampalace.org.
Fulham Palace is also hosting an exhibition: Discovering the Bishop of London’s Palace at Fulham
The first exhibition in the palace's new museum celebrates its recent £3.8 million restoration project, revealing what was involved in this thee year programme to restore and reinterpret the Tudor courtyard and historic rooms and create new plant beds in the botanic garden.
Find out how this complex restoration project has resulted in a richer understanding of the building of Fulham Palace, how the site was used and the people who lived and worked here over the centuries.
Learn about the work carried out by the specialist conservators and craftspeople involved in the project, and the traditional methods they employed to remain faithful to those used at Fulham Palace in the past.
See many of the fascinating finds discovered during the restoration works, from artefacts uncovered through archaeology digs to a 17th century painted wall hidden behind plasterboard.
Learn about the vital role volunteers played in discovering more about Fulham Palace and the Bishops of London through carrying out an extensive archive research project and participating in archaeology digs.
The exhibition is on display until November 2020 and is open during museum opening times - 10.30am till 5pm till 27 October then 10.30am till 4pm until 27 March 2020. Admission is free
September 6, 2019