What's On

We are delighted to be holding a Festival of Birds at Cheney School on Tuesday 4td February, 3 - 5pm.

The event will be the first of a series of events celebrating the nature around us, as we begin an extended series of miniature events.

There will be a range of bird-themed information and activity stalls, including scientific, artistic, craft and storytelling explorations and celebrations of the birds around us. There will also be refreshments available and a live bird display. All ages are warmly welcome to attend.

Find out about the birds around us, and how they have inspired ancient myths, stories, art and more through the ages. There will be a number of local scientists and artists talking about how their work has been inspired by birds.

We will also be displaying prints of birds from magical realist, bird-themed novel The Birder, set in Oxford, and written by Rumble Museum director Lorna Robinson.

The event will open at 3pm for Cheney School students and 3.30pm for visitors.

If you would like to book places, please fill out this form.

We are delighted to announce a first event of its kind organised by the Rumble Museum at Cheney School.

Nature Late will celebrate the world of nature on site at Cheney through talks, workshops, stalls, activities and exhibitions. The schedule is as follows:

6 - 6.30pm - "Saving Our Insects" - opening talk by Professor Dave Goulson.

6 - 8pm - Ecology Festival for all ages with a large range of science and nature-themed stalls and activities

8 - 11pm - Moth Night

The programme is still being developed, and a full line-up will be announced nearer the time. If you would like to attend, please fill in this form.

In the run-up to our Nature Late event, we will be running some smaller nature-themed activities and events, and will announce these in the coming months.

We will be holding a bird-themed event in the early spring to celebrate the birds on site, and to launch our new collection of bird prints around Oxford - more to follow soon.

We are delighted to announce an Astronomy and Stargazing Evening on Thursday 19th December, 4.30 - 8pm at Cheney School.

The event will feature an opening talk from an expert astronomer, planetarium show, stalls and activities, and stargazing.

Below are timings for each part of the evening:

4.30 - 5.15pm - planetarium show - FULLY BOOKED

5.30 - 6pm - opening talk by Professor Jocelyn Monroe: Dark Matter and the Universe

6 - 8pm - stalls, activities and stargazing

If you would like to book places to attend, please fill in this form.

Saturdays 2.30 - 5pm at St Mary & St John's Church, Cowley Road

The Rumble Museum regularly organises a very wide range of speakers to deliver talks on all sorts of topics. Recent ones have included A.I., medicine, economics, astronomy, neuroscience and the role of religion in public life. You can listen again to some of our recent talks below by clicking on the images.