Events & Exhibitions
New Forest Marque Beekeepers
THIS EVENT HAS ENDED
April
We’ll be welcoming all the local honey-producing members of New Forest Marque to our gallery to sell some of their produce and to promote the long history and importance of beekeeping in the New Forest.
Interschool Photographic Competition
27/04/24 - 24/05/24
April - May
We are pleased to again be hosting an exhibition of the best entries into The Rotary Club of Ringwood Interschool Photography Competition. Co-ordinated each year by Ringwood School – hundreds of entrants take part from over 20 schools in the area and this year’s theme will be “Atmosphere”
Alice Day - Come and discover your inner Alice
04/05/24 2.30pm - 5.30pm
May 4
Calling all Alices!
If Alice is anywhere in your name and you live or have lived, in The New Forest area in the past, then we would love to hear from you. It doesn’t matter how young or old you are, on 4th May 2024, 2.30pm-5.30pm we would like to invite you to the first ever New Forest ‘Gathering of Alices’ at the New Forest Heritage Centre in Lyndhurst.
This is a special invitation-only event. The shop will remain open to the public, but the rest of the rebuilding will be closed during the event. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Fossil Talk and Walk
25/05/24 - 11am Walk & 6pm Talk
May 25
Dr James Barnet grew up in the Forest and became curious from an early age why he was finding seashells and shark teeth in a riverbed close to his home, over 15 miles from the nearest coastline and 75 metres above sea level. Now an author and lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews, James will lead a morning walk and talk in the evening on 25th May. More details are in the booking link.
May
D.Day80
26/05/24 - 08/06/24
We will be exhibiting a series of immersive images by renowned portrait photographer Alistair Morrison of living men and women veterans of D-Day, together with filmed interviews and archive content.
Brockenhurst College Student Exhibition
13/06/24 - 25/06/24
June
Creative media and design students will be taking over our gallery to display their final year projects, all inspired by items and objects chosen by them from our archive.
Our summer exhibition will tell the fascinating story of the two Indian Army hospitals located in the New Forest during the First World War. Co-curated with local historian and researcher, Nick Saunders, the exhibition will explore the spirit of friendship which developed between the soldiers and the local community.
Indians in the New Forest
05/07/24 - 07/08/24
July