Woodbridge Tide Mill celebrates 850 years on the quayside site in 2021.
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As lockdown restrictions ease Suffolk s museums are opening their doors to visitors so why not put them on your list of things to do this summer?
They re a great way to get to know more about the county and what makes it tick. Many are staffed by knowledgeable volunteers who will tell you about the collections in their care, bringing your visit alive.
Many Suffolk towns and villages have museums dedicated to their heritage but there are also specialist collections such as the Museum of East Anglian Life, East Anglia Transport Museum and Ipswich Transport Museum. Here are some to whet your appetite.
Some of the agricultural equipment at Carmarthenshire County Museum (pic courtesy of CofGar and free for use for all BBC wire partners) THE last portrait of poet Dylan Thomas has arrived at Carmarthenshire County Museum, where it joined thousands of other objects and artefacts which provide a glimpse into the past. Painted at Thomas’s boathouse and writing shed in Laugharne by artist Gordon Stuart in September 1953 – two months before the poet’s death – the portrait was bought at auction by Carmarthenshire Council for £15,000. The council-run museums service has around 42,000 “accessions” – a number assigned to each acquisition – which comprise some 70,000 individual objects.
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What’s the best way to paint an apricot in oils? In 1663, the 30-year-old amateur painter Mary Beale laid out her method:
Let yor shadowes bee pinke & Lake and Bury oker & in some places […] according as ye life requireth it a litle fine Ultramarine: in some other places where ye shadowes are glowing & ffaint as they are sometimes in ye Crowne there touch upon yor generall rendering with pinke & Vermilion mixed together.
This apricot advice is the first known piece of writing on art by a woman, a statement of technical capacity that reflects Beale’s ambition to be considered a serious artist in the years before she sold a painting. A decade on, she was a hugely successful portraitist in London, taking in 83 commissions in one year at the height of her popularity.
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Aldeburgh Museum
Head to Aldeburgh’s seafront and there you will find Moot Hall – a 16th century timber-framed building that is home to Aldeburgh Museum. One of the best-preserved Tudor buildings in the country, visitors to the museum can expect to see a number of fascinating and detailed exhibits dating all the way back to the Anglo-Saxon and medieval eras.
Find out how the town became a thriving shipbuilding and fishing centre, explore its growth as a seaside resort, and uncover the workings of the fascinating Tudor building itself. Exhibits on display include finds from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Snape, Roman excavations from Barber’s Point, as well as a series of photographs and artefacts depicting life in the coastal town.