St Albans Museum + Gallery has officially reopened today amid the latest easing of lockdown restrictions. Verulamium Museum will also throw open its doors with new Covid-secure measures – which include visitors checking in on the NHS Covid app when they arrive and wearing face coverings whilst indoors. Visitors will to St Albans Museum + Gallery will be treated to three new exhibitions. They include Behind the Mask, which celebrates 40 years of innovation, and Lockdown Life – displaying how people in St Albans have responded to lockdown’s challenges.
Barecats automata from Cabaret Mechanical Marvels There will also be an exhibit called Pandemic Portraits – which will involve a short film being displayed in the Timeline Gallery of the museum.
But if you ve dared to look at your screen-time lately, you ll know that too much of a good thing does in fact exist and, even during Level 5 lockdown, there comes a time when a digital detox is needed.
So, if you re looking for some other activities to keep you away from your screens, here are a few things to do this weekend that don t involve technology.
1. Revisit an old hobby
We all have some once beloved pastimes that we ve let slip, and there s no better time than now to revisit the hobbies that used to bring you joy. Tackle that to-read pile, whip out the knitting needles or rediscover that love for photography that you ve neglected - it s sure to kill some time and you might even rediscover a forgotten source of happiness.