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Life's Highway Travelling Exhibition
Exploring the changing face of transport
28 April to 7 July 2008
10.00am to 4.00pm
Motoring writer Nick Baldwin compiled a huge collection of archive material relating to all aspects of road transport. The Heritage Lottery Fund assisted the heritage Motor Centre in acquiring the collection and making available to the public via a website (www.baldwincollection.org), a permanent exhibition at the Heritage Motor Centre and a Travelling Exhibition. This Travelling Exhibition is now coming to the Vale & Downland Museum in Wantage.
The Travelling Exhibition features a replica 1950s petrol pump featuring a video screen with images from the collection, display panels showing more of the collection and a podium which allows you to delve deeper into photographs and documents. Additional exhibits will be added by the Vale & Downland Museum reflecting transport in the Vale of White Horse.
Going Green
Sustainability Past & Present
Wednesday 9 July to Saturday 27 September 2008
10.00am to 4.00pm (Closed August Bank Holiday Monday)
For more than 150 years, unease has been voiced at the clash between human activity and the natural world.
The modern environmental movement emerged in the 1960s, initially over concerns about the effects of chemical pesticides. Organisations such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace date from the early 1970s and the First Earth Summit was held in 1972.
The term 'sustainable development' first appeared in 1987 and was defined as 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.'
In the 2000s, everyone is talking about the future of the planet. This exhibition, created in conjunction with the Museum of English Rural Life, attempts to present parts of the Vale & Downland Museum's collection within the context of today's debate.
Picture below shows children during a water shortage in 1935.
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