• YoungLivin' Home
• Search YoungLivin
• Advice
• Ask 4 Help
• Enjoy and Achieve
• Youth Centres
• Duke of Edinburgh's Open Award
• Leisure Centres
• Recreation and Sports
• Libraries
• Museum
• Museum Events
• Music and Arts
• Young Kingston
• COP Cards
• Events
• Get Involved
• Learning and Earning
• Links
• Making Adventure Possible (MAP)
• Staying Safe
• Weekly Poll
• Youth Opportunities Fund
• About Us

Museum Events

Unseen Kingston

Building and redevelopment over the years has inevitably changed the appearance of Kingston, often beyond recognition, though other features such as the medieval market place remain intact. The Museum’s local history collection includes many paintings, prints and drawings of sites, scenes and buildings in the borough, invaluable for discovering how Kingston’s looked in past centuries. As Kingston continues to change, artists, including Kingston University students, are recording sites likely to be redeveloped and the collection carries on growing. This is the first time some of the best of these art works have been seen or brought together into one comprehensive exhibition; an opportunity not to be missed.

Magic in the Nursery: illustrations from the children’s books of Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott

Walter Crane (1845-1915) and Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) are acknowledged as the two founding fathers of the modern children’s book in Britain, if not the world. This touring exhibition is a selection from their nursery books published in the 1870s and 1880s. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) has always been associated with them as illustrators of nursery books but here she makes just a guest appearance. The exhibition is supported and enhanced with books, musical instruments and large format sing-a-long panels enabling us to run a variety of activities for children of all ages.

Thames Valley Arts Club Summer Exhibition

Once again, the club is very pleased to be showing its summer exhibition of members’ work, drawn from the most talented artists working in the Kingston area. This is not just an exhibition to look at, in the splendid newly refurbished art gallery, but also an opportunity to buy and enjoy original artwork (not reproductions) including many unframed items at very reasonable prices.

Talk of the Town

As part of the Kingston Contemporary Open season, Kingston Schools Town Cluster presents a melange of inspirational artworks around the theme of New Horizons. Innovative and investigative, the aim is to provide young budding artists with the best possible accolade by displaying their work in the heart of Kingston in the Museum’s art gallery.

Festival!

In 2008 we celebrate the 800th anniversary of Kingston’s first surviving charter, granted to Kingston by King John on 23rd September 1208. In the 21st Century Kingston is fast developing a reputation as a multi-cultural ‘festival town’ with regular events throughout the year such as the prestigious Readers’ Festival, Korean Festival and Carnival. Kingston has always celebrated its rich heritage and traditions with impressive pageantry, procession and ceremony. Traditional May Day Games in the 16th Century, the inauguration of the Coronation Stone in the 19th Century and lavish pageants feature prominantly in records and surviving photographs. Kingston Museum is pleased to be drawing on its unique archives and local history collections as well as contemporary art and photography to celebrate and look forward.

Kingston Camera Club Annual Exhibition

Come and enjoy a selection of photographs taken by Kingston Camera Club members during the last year. Many members use digital cameras like yours. See what you can do perhaps join the Club and learn how to make satisfying pictures. Visit the exhibition and www.kingstoncameraclub.co.uk as first steps on an exciting journey.

Just a Moment: photographs by Stuart Heydinger

Stuart Heydinger was born in Kingston in 1927. Internationally renowned as a photo reporter,his work has appeared on the title page of broadsheets all over the world. Starting his career drawing cartoons for the Folkestone Herald, he photographed the German bombing of the English Coast in 1943 and did military service in a parachute regiment in Palestine. Later he photographed the Royal Family and their guests as well as politicians, notably Winston Churchill, Alexei Kosygin, Emperor Haile Salassie, Konrad Adenauer and John F Kennedy. In 1956 he was at the Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo. He worked for The Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph and covered many subjects all over the world from the meeting of Sir Edmund Hilary and Sir Vivian Fuchs at the South Pole to the war and famine in Biafra. Stuart Heydinger now lives in Oldenburg in Germany. This exhibition is on loan from the Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Oldenburg.