It’s been wonderful to welcome colleagues to site and see people back in the Museum for training this week in anticipation of reopening on Mon 17 May.
General admission bookings opened last Tuesday (27 Apr) and take-up thus far has been positive with approximately 30% of budgeted tickets already booked for the first weekend of opening.
A key part of the training includes a Museum-wide briefing from Andrew, an update on the latest developments for Forging Ahead and information on the Spring and Whitsun daytime programme. We look forward to sharing the above news with colleagues during this week and into the next.
Following on from the news of both 1940s Weekend and Peaky Blinders Nights being back for 2021, we wanted to share further details about our events programme for the rest of the year. Red by Night will make a welcome return in October and our new family daytime event ‘Enchanted Christmas’ that was due to launch in 2020 will now go ahead this year.
A full timetable of pre-ticketed events is shown below:
| Date | Event |
| Sat 17 July | 1940s Evening |
| Fri 10 Sep Sat 11 Sep Fri 17 Sep Sat 18 Sep Fri 24 Sep Sat 25 Sep Fri 12 Nov Sat 13 Nov | Peaky Blinders Nights |
| Sat 9 Oct | Red by Night |
| Fri 22 Oct Sat 23 Fri 29 Sat 30 | Halloween Nights |
| Fri 3 Dec Sat 4 Dec | Christmas Nights |
| Sat 11 Dec (daytime) Sun 12 Dec (daytime) Sat 18 Dec (daytime) Sun 19 Dec (daytime) | Enchanted Christmas |
We’ll communicate further information on the content of the events, ticket on-sale dates and provision of staff tickets in due course. We’re excited to have the chance to host events again, should positive progress against the Government Roadmap continue.
We anticipate that this update will be the last fortnightly comms, as we’re intending to be back open by the time the next update would be due on Wed 19 May. However, we are looking at alternative formats for a regular comms update that we can share with colleagues moving forward. Please watch this space!
As a final piece of housekeeping, colleagues should ensure that they follow NHS parking processes for the next two weeks while they arrange for their staff parking to move off-site. Many thanks for your patience.
Thank you again to everyone for your fortitude and perseverance during these most testing of times. We know that visitors cannot wait to be back and experiencing living history at its best. We’re delighted to have colleagues return to the Museum ready to welcome visitors back.
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