Current exhibitions
THE EYE OF CHILDHOOD: children’s writers and artists in Barnet borough
30 May- 27 September 2009
Church Farmhouse Museum’s Summer exhibition reveals the many children’s authors and illustrators, past and present, with connexions to our area: from Oliver Postgate (The Clangers; Bagpuss) to Joe Craig (the Jimmy Coates series); from Sydney Hulme Beaman (the Toytown stories on radio and TV) to Helen Craig & Katharine Holabird (Angelina Ballerina); from Anthony Buckeridge (Jennings) to Spike Milligan (Silly Verse for Kids).
Earlier authors featured include Frank Horrabin, whose Japhet & Happy comic strip in the News Chronicle rivalled Rupert Bear in popularity in the 1920s; Mark Lemon (first editor of Punch) who lived at Church Farm as a boy in the early 1800s; and Lewis Carroll, as the Lewis Carroll Society was founded in Hendon in 1969.
Children visiting the exhibition will have the opportunity to write their own poems and brief stories, or draw illustrations to their favourite tales.
Reading is one of childhood’s greatest adventures. Come along and see how much the many and varied writers and artists of Barnet borough have contributed to it.
THE MOVING TOYSHOP
20th Century toys and games
Church Farmhouse Museum’s continuing exhibition of playthings from the past, with hundreds of toys to see- and lots for the very young to play with- has new displays for Summer 2009, and now includes construction toys from the past and the present for older children to try. There is also a Teddy Bear Trail for younger children to follow through the Museum’s Victorian rooms.
Museum shop
The shop sells a wide range of inexpensive toys and gifts.
Opening times and getting there
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