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For a free brochure e.festivities@pgs.org.uk
or t. 023 9268 1390.
Exhibitions
George Meredith & Victorian Literary Connections
20 – 28 June 4pm-6pm daily
Devised especially for the 2009 Portsmouth Festivities, this
exhibition explores the life and literary connections of writer
George Meredith, born just along the High Street, whose
centenary of death occurs this year. The exhibition will
include items generously on loan from Gieves & Hawkes,
the gentlemen’s outfi tters founded by Meredith’s tailor
grandfather, and artefacts on public display for the fi rst time
from the Richard Lancelyn Green Conan Doyle Bequest on
loan from Portsmouth City Council, revealing Meredith’s
influence on the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Meredith’s
connections with the Pre-Raphaelite movement provide
further interest in this unique exhibition.
Free
The Cowdry: Characters & Entertainers
19 – 28 June daily
St Thomas’s Cathedral
An exhibition of sculptures created by Year 9 pupils at
Portsmouth Grammar School. Taking as their inspiration the
hand coloured engraving of the sinking of the Mary Rose,
The Cowdry 1545, they have created 3-D characters from
the picture using corrugated cardboard and papermache as
well as other Tudor characters: court jesters.
Free
Stranger things are happening
26 June – 23 August
Aspex Gallery
A group show of international artists that use diverse media
to create bizarre scenarios, which poke at the human psyche.
An on and off-site exhibition of video installation and
sculpture, opening with a weekend of live performances.
Free
A Study in Sherlock
Monday – Sunday 10am-5.30pm
Uncovering The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest
City Museum and Art Gallery
An extensive exhibition exploring Arthur Conan Doyle’s
remarkable life from his childhood to University years, his
sporting prowess and his unsurpassed contribution to
Victorian and Edwardian cultural life. Also exploring the
creation of Sherlock Holmes in Portsmouth, the ‘life’ of this
iconic character across the world, Conan Doyle’s Spiritualist
crusade and his role as a campaigner against miscarriages
of justice.
Return to Helmand: Royal Marines in Afghanistan
Open until end August 2009
Open daily 10am-5pm
The Royal Marines Museum
This unique exhibition features startling and thought provoking
photography, video footage and oral histories, a
series of paintings commissioned from the war artist Gordon
Rushmer, and a range of exhibits brought back from the field
of action to explore the role of the Royal Marines in current
and recent operations in Afghanistan. A challenging insight
into the demands placed on those wearing the green beret.
T: 023 9281 9385
www.royalmarinesmuseum.co.uk
Sea Your History: 20th Century Royal Navy
Open daily from 10am. Last admission 4.45pm
The Royal Naval Museum
Focusing on the real experiences of the Navy’s people this
exhibition features colourful, surprising and often touchingly
intimate items of both official and personal material selected
from the collections of the Royal Naval Museum, the Fleet
Air Arm Museum, the Royal Marines Museum and the Royal
Navy Submarine Museum. The exhibition is part of a larger
project to make the Museums’ 20th century collections
available to public view online at ww.seayourhistory.org.uk
Supported by funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the
project is a joint effort by the four museums, Portsmouth
Royal Dockyard History Trust and the Mary Rose Trust.
Free with a valid attraction ticket
T: 023 9272 7582 – www.historicdockyard.co.uk
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch
12 December 2009 – 17 January 2010
Open daily from 10am, last admission 4.45pm
The Mary Rose Museum
British Library Touring Exhibition
Henry is not only England’s best-known king – with his
wives, his girth and his bloodthirstiness; he is also our most
important single ruler. When he came to the throne 500
years ago, Henry was the Pious Prince who ruled an England
at the heart of Catholic Europe; when he died, he was the
Great Schismatic, who had created a national Church and
an insular, xenophobic politics that shaped the development
of England for the next half a millennium. This exhibition
will examine the extraordinary transformations – personal
and political, intellectual and religious, literary, aesthetic and
linguistic – that took place in Henry’s reign. These take us, as
nothing else can, into the King’s own mind.
Free with a valid attraction ticket
T: 023 9272 7582
www.historicdockyard.co.uk
