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Welcome to the Museum of Oxford's People's War Page.

2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. To commemorate the event the Museum of Oxford was awarded a grant by the Big Lottery funding scheme Home Front Recall, to record and exhibit the vital contribution of WW2 home front veterans.

The project was launched with a wartime Tea Dance in Oxford Town Hall in March, and residents with experience of living in Oxford between 1939 and 1945 were invited to come along.

WE'LL MEET AGAIN: MEMORIES OF THE HOME FRONT IN OXFORD 1939-45
This exhibition at the Museum of Oxford (ends 27 November 2005) highlights Oxford鈥檚 contribution to the home front and explores the impact of the War on the City including Everyday Life, Savings and Salvage, Evacuation, War Work, Military Presence, Civil Defence and Victory in 1945.

Visitors can test themselves with the Rationing challenge, explore an Evacuees suitcase, try on a gas mask, touch some mystery WW2 objects and guess the war smells!

Visitors to the museum can listen to the oral history testimonies of local people on a 鈥橳ouch Screen鈥� kiosk in the museum galleries. This living archive of WW2 memories and images has been produced as a CD-ROM education pack and distributed to local schools.

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN
The museum is offering interactive workshops for pupils about the Home Front in Oxford.

The workshops are aimed at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils and the current exhibition 鈥淲e鈥檒l Meet Again鈥� gives school children an opportunity to learn more about life in Oxford during the Second World War.

The visit will combine work in the exhibition supervised by the teacher alongside a handling session supervised by a museum assistant.

Pupils are encouraged to apply their historical skills to complete a series of challenges in which they will handle original and replica artifacts from the World War Two period. There is be a 鈥淪uitcase Game鈥� consisting of three challenges, during which pupils handle and investigate objects to draw conclusions about people who lived in Oxford during the war.

There are three complementary craft activities running alongside each challenge and pupils will use an exhibition trail worksheet for the session.

The workshops are available until Friday 25 November. The workshops cost 拢3 per pupil with a maximum of 35 pupils. The Gallery visits cost 50p per pupil.

We are located in the city centre, on the corner of Oxford Town Hall.
Contact details are:
Museum of Oxford
St Aldates
Oxford
OX1 1DZ

Tel: 01865 252761
Email: museum@oxford.gov.uk

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