If you missed it yesterday, take a peek into the history vaults with MK Museum today, for a dramatic and real review of how we used to live.
Visitors to the site in Wolverton will be rewarded with a swell programme from key periods in our area’s history.
You’ll meet the Roman traders demonstrating early wax tablets and selling everything from jewellery to potions, and see Roman artists using colour pigments.
Then move on and check in with the Vikings. They had the best hair and the best boats, but they were a fierce bunch. Proving the point, they’ll be in battle this weekend!
Visit Chanz Des Reis, a 12th century historical re-enactment group who expertly cover civilian, military and religious life in the middle ages, and then have a go at archery, as practised in Medieval times.
Forget a walk down memory lane, this is a sprint through our history and there is plenty more on the menu than what we’ve already mentioned.
Pop in and see the Oxford Household and Woodvilles, living in quite the same fashion as they would have been during the War of the Roses, and talk to a Tudor surgeon.
And talking is all you’ll want to do. Medicine then wasn’t quite what it is today, shall we say. Anaesthetic? What anaesthetic?!
A civil war re-enactment group will be present, and there will be much, much more to engage with daily, between 11am and 4pm both today and tomorrow.
“This area has played a significant role throughout many eras of history and we are looking forward to telling those stories in really exciting ways,” said director Bill Griffiths.
Visit www.mkmuseum.org.uk for details.
