Museum News

The museum at Fulham Palace enjoyed an increase in visitors the past year with 17.221 people (1.628 more than in 2013) stopping by to look at the exhibitions.

For those of you who have been enjoying the BBC TV drama Wolf Hall, or indeed the books, there is a currently a small display in the Porteus Library of Tudor bishops in Cromwell’s time. Come and take a look.

In other news, in February volunteers enjoyed two collections care courses on books and textiles led by volunteer Vicky Garrard, museum trainee Sam Lang and museum curator Miranda Poliakoff. If volunteers have ideas for future courses then please let us know.

Farewell to Pauline McCormack

Join us all on 5th March, 4pm to 6pm in Bishop Terrick's Drawing Room, to say thankyou and farewell to Pauline McCormack, who has been working at Fulham Palace and Bishop’s Park for the last 3 years as Community Development Officer. 

Pauline came to us from the parks department of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, with a wealth of experience of working with community-led organisations in the borough.  Over the last 3 years she has established a number of initiatives that have been successful in bringing new people to the Park and Palace, such as Park Run, the Bishop’s Park Farmer’s Market, our expanded volunteering programme and the youth forum.  She received funding from Western Riverside Environmental Fund (WREF) for the Palace’s new compost heap, and funding for the establishment of the Palace’s bee hives.  We thank her for all her hard work and wish her well in her next move.

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Welcome to our new volunteer website

As many of you will know the quarterly Fulham Palace volunteer newsletter has come to an end.  But despair not for you have just entered the brand new volunteer website where you can keep up to date with everything that goes on at the Palace and more.

The different sections will provide you with information about the Palace, staff and events.

If you are curious about the management structure at the Palace then just take a look under ‘Who’s who’ to read staff bios and see photos. The ‘Calendar’ lists all up and coming events and you can easily RSVP by clicking the link provided.

We have also collected a large catalogue of training documents (videos to come soon!) for those who wish to develop their skills within their volunteer area or learn new ones. All this can be found under ‘Resources’. The ‘Online Forum' is a place to interact with fellow volunteers, and it is now easier than ever to sign up for your shift using the ‘Rotas’ page.

Finally the ‘Blog’ will be the place to visit for all the latest news and events. We hope that many of you will want to submit photos, videos or written pieces about the work you do at the Palace or indeed if you have done something exciting in your spare time that you would like to share with your fellow volunteers. The blog will be updated on a weekly basis so the more stuff that gets submitted the better!

Museum News

In the Museum we have mainly been concentrating on our winter exhibition “Fulham Palace through the Great War".  Amongst the exhibits is a recent acquisition; the wonderful large photograph donated by Barbara Mann showing the patients and nursing staff outside the east front in 1919.  This free exhibition is on in Bishop Sherlock’s Room during museum opening hours (Sunday 12 to 4pm; Monday to Thursday 12.30 to 3.30pm) until 16 April 2015.  We are most grateful to the wonderful team of volunteers who helped with the displays and the first of our linked events "Reflections of the Great War" which took place in the Chapel on 14 November, led by Sophie Raworth. Do look in the What's On section of the website for future talks relating to the exhibition.

Another recent addition to the collection is a newspaper article about the tea given by Bishop Winnington-Ingram to 1000 maidservants in 1902 to celebrate the Coronation of Edward VII.   This provides the context for the brooch that was acquired for the Museum earlier this year and which is on display in the Porteus Library.