Curatorial talks menu for Group Visits
30 minute talks in the Lecture Theatre:
Art:
The Tullie House Pre-Raphaelite Collection
Local Artists
History of the Fine and Decorative Art Collections
Highlights of the Fine and Decorative Art Collections
(Costume subject to follow)
Archaeology:
Propaganda and Spin – Roman Coins
A Licence to Mint Money – the Mint in Carlisle
Stone Circles
Roman Armour
A Present from Hadrian’s Wall – the Staffordshire Moorlands Pan
The Garrisons of Hadrian’s Wall
Holy Cauldron and Holy Grail - The origins of the Grail legend
The Romans in Carlisle (“rather longer than 30 minutes”)
Natural Sciences
The natural history collections at Tullie House Museum
Landscape and wildlife of Cumbria
Cumbria’s changing wildlife
Wildlife of the High Fells
Garden wildlife
Bugs of the bogs
Butterflies in Cumbria
Mammals in Cumbria
Social History
Rutherford’s Reivers
Cowans Sheldon: Cranemakers to the world
The Irish in Cumbria
Carlisle’s hidden communities
The Netherby Hall Robbery
A History of Football
Georgian Carlisle
Carlisle and the Jacobite Rising
15 minute talk in the Lecture Theatre:
Art:
Highlights of Old Tullie House
Archaeology:
The Roman Gallery – various aspects usually tailored to the audience
10 minute spotlight talks in the galleries for smallish groups:
Art:
Pre-Raphaelite Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement
St Martin’s Church, Brampton
Archaeology:
Spots about various items in the gallery – writing tablets, gods and goddesses, Vikings
Social History
Reivers Gallery
Carlisle Life
5 minute introduction in the galleries:
Art:
Introduction to Old Tullie House