Join Amazing Grace 250 partners and performers for the final event to close this 250th anniversary year PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD AT THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER & ST PAUL, OLNEY Book your free ticket via this link to the Museum’s Art Tickets site: Final Event of Amazing Grace 250 … Read more
To mark the 250th anniversary of the writing of the hymn, Amazing Grace, by the Rev’d John Newton in the town of Olney, a new piece of of music for voice and chamber ensemble was commissioned by Cowper & Newton Museum with The Stables to explore what the hymn might mean to people today. Saturday … Read more
On 9 July, a special event was held to launch the Amazing Grace Orchard, a new community orchard planted in Olney – the market town known as the ‘Home of Amazing Grace’. The Orchard, located by the Queens Canopy, marks the 250th anniversary of the internationally known hymn, which was written in the town by … Read more
Saturday 24th June 2023 saw the climax of Invisible Folk‘s ‘Grace Will Lead Me Home’ project with a performance at the Cowper & Newton Museum, featuring renowned UK Folk musicians Angeline Morrison and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne. The first half of the session was led by the Invisible Folk Band. Jon Bickley Diana Stone Milo Downs Bill … Read more
A part of the year of Amazing Grace, the challenge was to bring 250 voices together to perform a new song, written to mark the 250th anniversary of the hymn, Amazing Grace. On 17 June, 2023, Music Director, Craig McCleish met the challenge when 279 singers from 13 choirs joined together for this first public … Read more
The original stage play ‘Forever Mine’ which documents the love story behind the hymn Amazing Grace, comes to Olney this Autumn.
Find out more about the friendship between John Newton and Alexander Clunie with this free talk. John Newton was author of “Amazing Grace” and Clunie was Newton’s Christian mentor in St Kitts.
The Cowper and Newton Museum is home to many original manuscripts. Included in this, are 18th and 19th century “Poor Law” books. Join Geoff Swindells, who will explain more about these books and why they were used nearly 300 years ago.
A free drop in activity for families and children. Have a go at 18th century quill writing, wax sealing and printing!
Join a free guided tour to mark The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and it’s Abolition. This tour will focus on the collections and accounts in the museum, which relate to slavery and abolition.
In June, pupils and staff from St Vincent’s Specialist School for Sensory Impairment and Other Needs, Liverpool will be visiting Olney for Seeing Together, a collaborative project as part of Amazing Grace 250. We are very much looking forward to welcoming Mrs Bernadette Buckle, Chair of Governors St Vincent’s, Dr John Patterson, Principal, staff and … Read more
Local community choirs have begun rehearsals of Song 8: A Hymn’s Review?, one section from Forever?, a new piece of music composed for voice and chamber ensemble. As part of Amazing Grace 250, A Hymn’s Review? will be sung by a mass choir of 250 Voices, led by musical director, Craig McLeish, at the Milton … Read more
Our Museum building remains CLOSED. We are opening our gardens on limited entry. The Cowper & Newton Museum gardens will be open to welcome you on Wednesday 5th August 10.30 – 12.15 and Saturday 8th August 10.30 – 12.15
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