The Rumble Museum at Cheney School has decorated an empty shop window at No 8 Broad Street in the Oxford City Centre with a range of its artefacts and exhibits. 

 

The display, designed by the museum's director Dr Lorna Robinson and created with the help of Year Twelve students from Cheney School, consists of two windows. The first window showcases some of the museum's replica artefacts from the Minoan Civilisation, people who thrived on the island of Crete and surrounding areas in the second millennium BC. There is a replica snake goddess, Phaistos Disk and sistron, and the centrepiece is a mosaic featuring a Minoan woman gathering saffron, made by visitors and students at a community festival, under the guidance of local mosaicist Clare Goodall.

 

The second window exhibits the many nature projects the Rumble Museum organises, and includes dragonflies designed by St Andrew's Primary School and Bayards Hill Primary School, mosaics of two moths found in a student survey of moths on site at Cheney, and tree trunks from an Indian Bean tree which had to be cut down. It also includes a model of a tree made by Year 12 art student Felix Spier. 

 

The displays provide an opportunity to show some of the exciting and wide-ranging projects the museum runs at Cheney and with the local community, and a chance to show some of the very large collection of original and replica items at the school. 

 

The exhibitions will be in the windows for the next two months and maybe longer, depending on when the shop unit is sold.