The Museum last year

Well, last year was a busy one at the museum. With very mixed experiences. It seems the recession has well and truly landed.

I did not have as much work from early autumn onwards. But, until then I was extraordinarily busy, doing many and varied tasks.

There was also the filming of The Tudor Monastery Farm. The more eagle eyed might catch a two second glimpse of me very occasionally.
Lion TV interpreted parts of the site as 1500. Just before Henry the Eighth came to the throne and we were still a deeply Catholic country. This is not strictly a period we cover at the museum but what they produced is very effective.

This is one picture my husband took during one of the filming sessions.

Clothing made by the volunteer needle workers group that gets used on a daily basis was used for the filming (except the monks costume above, that was bought by Lion TV).
Because this clothing is produced to cover a later Tudor period some alterations were made on a ad-hoc basis. Above this is the clothing we tend to wear for the 1540s. But, it was fun to see lots of people populating the place.