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Coming Up at The Fan Museum in 2016…
The museum’s new exhibition, Fans of the Livery is the latest of many fascinating offerings from The Fan Museum in the coming months.
Read MoreCurator in Residence 2016
During the Summer of 2016, The Fan Museum’s curators will be in residence to offer short talks on the museum’s collections and fan handling sessions.
Read MoreSpecial Donors Event at The Fan Museum
On Monday 01 February 2016, The Fan Museum hosted a special event to thank those who generously donated to the recent purchase of an Elizabethan folding fan.
The Fan Museum welcomed guests from the Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund and numerous Friends of The Fan Museum to celebrate the recent purchase and installation of an Elizabethan embroidered folding fan (c. 1590 – 1630). The fan is thought to be the only surviving example of its kind, and forms an integral and unique part of The Fan Museum’s collections.
Read MoreThe Fan Museum Trust acquires a unique embroidered folding fan, c. 1590-1630
The Fan Museum is delighted to announce it has acquired, with the generous support of the Art Fund and National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), a unique piece of fan history in the form of an embroidered folding fan, c. 1590–1630.
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Upcoming Events
Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen
Thursday 20th February 2020, 2:00pm
The Fan Museum is pleased to welcome cultural historian, author and The Arts Society lecturer, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who’ll give a fascinating talk on a subject closely related to the Museum’s first exhibition of 2020, Heroic Figures.
Selling Fans in Eighteenth Century London
Wednesday 25 March 2020, 19.00-20.00hrs
An illustrated lecture by Cambridge University’s Dr Amy Louise Erikson, who recently curated a marvellous outdoor exhibition entitled City Women in the 18th Century.
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