Winchester College Publication Treausry: Collections Bulletin 2019-2020 | Page 3

Outreach Treasury Outreach and Engagement This has been an exciting year for outreach in Treasury, with significantly increased numbers and a broadening of our engagement with external organisations. We now have firm links with educational institutions at every level, and are exploring the use of digital platforms to make our collections accessible to the widest possible audience. Our commitment to local primary schools has been maintained this year, and we have welcomed some new visitors from this sector. Winnall School came for a workshop on stained glass, and we provided activity sessions on Life in Ancient Greece for Itchen Abbas Primary, Harestock Primary and Stroud School in Romsey. Horris Hill Preparatory School near Newbury came for a general introduction to our collections, including the Fellows’ Library. The highlight of our work with this age group was the annual Kids in Museums ‘Takeover Day’: 30 children from All Saints Primary School in Winchester visited Treasury to sketch objects in the collection, and then staged an exhibition of their work in the museum on 22 November. The display remained in place over the following weekend and was enjoyed by their families and friends. Local children and their families also came to the ‘Family Fun Day’ in the February half term. Craft activities and a museum trail on the theme of ‘Amazing Animals’ attracted 247 participants. Following its popularity, we plan to hold similar events once safe to do so. The Collections Team is keen to broaden our engagement to include pupils at local secondary schools. We created a pack of resources for teaching History at this level, and are working with the Henry Beaufort School to develop this further. In the autumn term, sixth-form pupils from several local secondary schools visited our temporary exhibition as part of a study day on Keats. We had also planned to participate in Eureka!, a Classics festival to be held at St Swithun’s School in July, but this was cancelled due to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus outbreak. At university level, we provided a study session on Greek vases and coins for Archaeology undergraduates from Winchester University. In December, participants from Oxford University’s ‘Heritage Pathways’ Programme spent an afternoon exploring and discussing the collections. A visiting graduate student from the University of Pennsylvania, Lila Goldenberg, curated a selection of 15 th - century printed books, which were on display in Treasury during the autumn. A Masters student from Winchester University, Ingrid Tofteng, and an undergraduate from Oxford, Milly Jonas, worked with us earlier in the year to help prepare descriptions of the Greek vases for our online database. We have continued to welcome adult groups into Treasury, which this year included the Society of Catholic Priests, the Friends of the National Libraries, the Friends of Kings Somborne Church, the parishioners of Fulflood and Weeke, and a Winchester U3A group. On March 17, Treasury was closed to the public and many of our planned events had to be postponed or cancelled. In the time since, we have continued to enhance our digital outreach and build our online database. For more on how you can explore the collections from home, read about our online resources at the end of the bulletin. Suzanne Ceiriog-Hughes Teaching in the Fellows’ Library The Fellows’ Library saw an impressively busy start to the year. In our first term, more than 20 classes were taught, in addition to individual visits from pupils and teachers, and several of the school’s clubs and societies. We hosted pupils from Kings’ School, Winchester, two groups of graduate students from Oxford University and a class from Yale. There were nine group tours of the library, including four during Heritage Open Days in September. From January to the beginning of March 14 classes visited before term came to a premature end, and there were six groups of external visitors. Just days before the closure, we welcomed our regular visit from the Bibliomaniacs of Papplewick Preparatory School, and honoured our tradition of showing them the Library’s 15 th -century genealogical scroll (MS 13A, see left), which is just under six metres long. Richard Foster Treasury is open daily from 2pm till 4pm and access to the Archives and Fellows’ Library is available by appointment. If you would like to bring a class or group to visit our collections, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]. Due to the changing restrictions concerning coronavirus, please check the opening times on our website before visiting. Winchester College Collections 2019 – 20 3