What's On in January at Fulham Palace
Go behind the scenes, tour the house and gardens or join a family fun day
Go behind the scenes, take a tour of the house and gardens or enjoy a family fun day at Fulham Palace during January.
Here's what's on offer this month:
Sunday 26 January, 11am - 3pm - Family fun day: grand designs
Discover Fulham Palace in the 18th and 19th centuries – when
the palace was being remodelled in different styles by a series of Bishops. Meet 18th century ladies and gentlemen who will be swanning around the Palace – catch them as they take a turn around the Palace and ask them your questions.
Have your silhouette cut, make a Gothic window, flounce in a frock coat and create a fan – and even get hands on with the archaeology of architecture!
Suitable for ages three+
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Free drop in event with no booking required.
Sunday 26 January, 1pm - 3pm - Hands on archaeology: the Palace in the 18th century
Discover more about Fulham Palace’s archaeological past and handle objects which have been recovered from this ancient historical site.
Free drop in event with no booking required.
Regular events also return to Fulham Palace after the Christmas break, including tours, walks and talks, Palace Explorers sessions for toddlers and the Young Archaeologists' Club for older children.
Tuesday 21, 2pm - 3pm and Sunday 26 January, 12.30pm - 1.30pm and - 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.
Sunday 19 January, 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.
Monday 20 and 27 and Tuesday 21 and 28 January, 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.
Saturday 18 January, 10.30am - 12.15pm - Young Archaeologists' Club
Our Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) is for budding archaeologists aged eight to 16, with young adults attending independently.
Each month YAC members investigate different themes, with activities that can range from learning to catalogue artefacts to taking part in a real archaeology dig!
This month YAC will be creating our own Tudor knot gardens, using the Palace’s knot garden as inspiration.
Tickets
£16 per session,£45 for the term. Booking essential, find out more and book tickets
here.
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 from 10.30am till 4pm until 27 March 2020. Admission is free.
October 31, 2019