🔊 FREE this Saturday for Oxford Open Doors! Hear new stories about our collections on the 🌈Community Voices🌱 audio trail. Pop into the Museum during our normal opening hours (10am-5pm) on Saturday 13 September and pick up a copy of the audio trail map from the shop. Scan the QR code and listen to voices from Oxford's communities tell you their stories as you explore the Museum🌼 📱Please note that you will need a smart device (phone or tablet) connected to the internet to listen to the audio trail. Available in English and British Sign Language. [Image description: A museum visitor listens to the audio tour inside the museum. Images of items from the museum collection are floating around them. These include a signed football shirt, a handsewn LGBTQIA+ pride flag and a model canal boat.] (fb)

THEN AND NOW – St Giles Fair 🎠 The fair has changed over its 400-year history, but lots of things are still the same. Always at its heart are the Showmen’s community, who put on the fair every year. We love how these photos from our 2024 exhibition show continuity and change against the backdrop of the fair today. ‘A Way of Life: The People behind St Giles Fair’ 2024 exhibition catalogue is available to buy in our museum shop. [Image description: A series of photos contrasting the fair today with photographs from the ‘A Way of Life’ exhibition catalogue. 1: A hand holds up the ‘A Way of Life’ exhibition catalogue. The catalogue features a black and white photo of a large crowd standing in front of fairground amusements, including the helter-skelter. This is contrasted to the background of the photo, which is of people milling around at the fair today. 2: A photograph of a cream and red helter-skelter held up against today’s helter-skelter, which features a yellow slide. 3: A recent photograph of Showwoman Maria seated at her shooting gallery sideshow held up against the same shooting gallery booth today (still run by Maria herself!). The booth is colourful and bedecked with prizes. 4: A photograph from 1958 of two children on the Gallopers, riding a pony together. This is held up against the Gallopers today. 5. A photograph of the dodgems, with multi-coloured bumper cars lined up and waiting for passengers, held up against a similar scene of the dodgems today.] (fb)